Dimming the Sun: The UK's Dystopian Climate Gamble

In something that sounds like it comes straight out of the dystopian future of the Smashing Pumpkins' "Glass and the Machines of God" mythos, or even out of Biblical prophecy, the United Kingdom is looking for ways to dim the sun, allegedly to combat "global warming."

Or is that "climate change?" I forget what the popular term is now, ever since they altered it when prediction after catastrophic prediction failed to materialize in a meaningful way.

Just saying.

Yes, yes, glaciers are melting (I've seen them with my own eyes). But ice is being gained in Antarctica, too. To be quite frank, I have no idea what is going on, although I do remain skeptical that any warming happening is solely the result of man-made factors. That's what happens when you have a shady, well-funded scientific community that censors its opposition - it creates suspicion.

At any rate, there are a lot of people who believe man-made global warming is happening (maybe you're one of them), and apparently this is the reasoning behind funding this rather scary project - at least on the surface.

So how would it, theoretically, work?

Apparently the idea is for planes to disperse reflecting particles via aerosol into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight back into space. Then, as a double whammy, boats could spray salt into the lower atmospheric levels into clouds over the ocean to further reflect light away from the planet.

I won't lie, I live in a very sunny part of the world where I find it obnoxiously too bright on too many days- but dimming the sun sounds like something that would really mess with the entire ecosystem in ways we haven't truly calculated.

How would a dimmed sun affect crops, animals and humans? Or the weather, for that matter? Or what would the consequences be of putting such a large amount of aerosols into the atmosphere?

I keep thinking of the popular old school anime, Cowboy Bebop, in which scientists basically ruined planet Earth through their experiments, forcing humanity to branch out to other planets.

Of course, this would be localized to the United Kingdom - that is, until it becomes successful and then the method spreads to other nations.

Maybe eventually they'll even try to mandate for the entire world though something like the Paris Climate Agreement (Green New Deal) that the United States pulled out of under Trump.

But as it is, the project is coming under some scrutiny by the British press - which is balking at the price tags for the research and what seems like an utter lack of public accountability as a small team of managers and researchers basically make bank for a project the public hasn't given its input on and that has no set timeline - creating conditions for research to conveniently continue as long as the gravy train keeps coming to those who benefit financially.

In other words, government waste and corruption. Or how about this word - scam.

In a world teetering on the edge of science fiction and biblical foreboding, the United Kingdom’s audacious plan to dim the sun raises more questions than answers.

While the stated goal of combating climate change fuels this costly endeavor, the lack of transparency, public input, and rigorous scrutiny casts a shadow of doubt over its true intentions.

The sun may yet shine on the truth, but for now, skepticism is our only shield against a future shrouded in manufactured twilight.