The situation is getting desperate -- let's make it worse

The weather is going crazy, that's a fact, and even though we don't have any indisputable scientific proof of it, reasonable individuals attribute the changes in the weather patterns to global warming, mostly caused by us slowly pumping toxic waste in the atmosphere in the first place.

Well, now some scientists (and politicians opposed to curbing global warming will soon follow, I'm sure) are starting to seriously take into consideration the idea of trying to buy us a few more decades (I assume so that we can keep on raping the environment) by, listen to this, pumping a huge amount of toxic gases directly into the atmosphere, so that it could create something like an umbrella, deflecting the solar rays hitting the planet, and therefore cooling the temperatures and, by extension, easing the effects of global warming.

That's insane.

Prominent scientists, among them a Nobel laureate, said a layer of pollution deliberately spewed into the atmosphere could act as a "shade" from the sun's rays and help cool the planet.

Thing is, the scientist who first proposed such a solution, didn't think it would be taken seriously. He thought people would be outraged and spur into action to fix the problem so that we don't have to resort to such drastic measures. And in that context, it made sense. How wrong was he:

The Nobel Prize-winning scientist who first made the proposal is himself "not enthusiastic about it."

"It was meant to startle the policymakers," said Paul J. Crutzen, of Germany's Max Planck Institute for Chemistry. "If they don't take action much more strongly than they have in the past, then in the end we have to do experiments like this."
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When he published his proposal in the journal Climatic Change in August, Crutzen cited a "grossly disappointing international political response" to warming.

The Dutch climatologist, awarded a 1995 Nobel in chemistry for his work uncovering the threat to Earth's atmospheric ozone layer, suggested that balloons bearing heavy guns be used to carry sulfates high aloft and fire them into the stratosphere.

While carbon dioxide keeps heat from escaping Earth, substances such as sulfur dioxide, a common air pollutant, reflect solar radiation, helping cool the planet.

Other scientists are more cautious. They say to go on with the research, but that if we were to do such a thing, we'd have to be extra super certain that there aren't any side effects.

However, side effects are a certainty:

A massive dissemination of pollutants would be needed every year or two, as the sulfates precipitate from the atmosphere in acid rain.

Acid rain is one of the main killers of trees. I remember seeing pictures of entire forests in Germany where trees were getting sick and dying because of the acidity of the rain blanketing them. More acid rain = less trees = less oxygen production + less carbon dioxide absorption = more global warming. How's that gonna help?

Plus, who would ever think that increasing the amount of acidity in our rain is better than increasing the temperature in the air?

Silly me, our politicians:

American geophysicist Jonathan Pershing, of Washington's World Resources Institute, was also wary of unforeseen consequences, but said the idea might be worth considering "if down the road 25 years it becomes more and more severe because we didn't deal with the problem."

Disgusting. Sometimes I really wonder what kind of world we're leaving behind to our kids.