Solar Shields? Honestly?

This is a little bit ridiculous; making “solar shields” to lower earth’s temperature and thus counteract global warming. Let’s think literally: CO2 is the biggest greenhouse gas, right (well besides water vapor) ? And plants/trees/etc are the only really significant users of CO2 (translating it into O2). With less sunlight, these flora would be deprived of a small percentage of their only energy source, removing roughly that percentage of CO2 removal. Not to mention the flora that would die and thus create a huge differential. So we would then be screwing ourselves by destroying the only thing that was sort of keeping the balance in the war against CO2 levels. I can’t believe people actually advocate these idiocies.
Intent is good, application is bad.

And don’t get me started on ethanol, especially in many foreign countries like Brazil, where they’re cutting down rainforest in order to plant ethanol crops. These are drastically less efficient in terms of both CO2 consumption and also absorption of the sun’s energy; so while they’re barely making a dent in oil consumption with the ethanol production, they’re destroying more and more of the naturally occurring global warming check.

<sigh>

Ethanol has to be the biggest scam of all. It’s such a non-starter for big-picture economics, because it effectively doubles or triples food prices for everything while barely making a dent in gasoline usage nation-wide.

 

I am getting too fired up; I need to relax. Talk amongst yourselves…