Can Government Scientists Save the Planet by Nuking Yellowstone National Park to Halt Global Warming?
(NaturalNews) Of all the hare-brained ideas about climate change I’ve heard in the last few years, this one takes the grand prize: John Holdren, the new science advisor to President Obama, is actively considering radical geoengineering ideas in order to halt global warming. One such idea now being discussed with the Obama administration involves — get this — launching enormous amounts of pollution particles into Earth’s upper atmosphere to block the sun’s rays and “chill” the planet. Let me explain why this is one of the dumbest ideas I’ve ever heard. And keep in mind this is not about the debate of whether global warming is even real or not, since that’s a different article altogether. This is about the short-sighted stupidity of even considering polluting the atmosphere in order to protect us from the CO2 pollution we’ve already dumped into the atmosphere. First off, there’s the whole idea that intentionally launching pollution into the atmosphere is, by any reckoning, a dangerous