Interesting Del mentioned “a South Park episode.” I remember one called “The Simpsons Already Did It” where Butters, playing make-believe as villain Prof. Chaos, sets out to “Block out the Sun.” He and a friend pull a cart full of wood, and think they’re going to block the Sun from South Park with their little project, which is so laughable, because they don’t have nearly enough material. Butters is dissuaded, though, when his friend says, “The Simpsons already did it.” The whole episode was a joke on the idea that Butters couldn’t think of “anything original,” because the Simpsons show had already done it.

I used to hear from time to time about geoengineering ideas, and they always sounded like this, small projects that in my estimation had absolutely no chance of achieving their stated objective, mainly “cooling the earth,” because none of them looked at the amount of material that would have to be put into the atmosphere to actually do it. If I got a chance to talk to people about it, I’d tell them, “Think of a large volcanic eruption.” That would actually have a measurable effect. Do we have anything that could produce that amount of material and gas that quickly? I don’t see that we do. Yet, these people, for more than a decade have tried to sell this idea that we have tech that can do this. To me, they’re charlatans, grifting off the hysteria about global warming. But as I keep running into, just because these people can’t meet their objective, doesn’t mean they can’t cause harm to many people, or just end up wasting lots of taxpayer money. So, it’s still worth opposing, rather than just laughing at it.