Attention, Supervillains and Climate Engineers: The U.N. May Soon Forbid You To Block Out the Sun

No more umbrellas or sunglasses!?

What about painting every roof white. I thought about this back in 2003 during college when I learned of the heat cycle in a basic atmospheric science class. Albedo.... anyone????

Within the last six months I read some articles on main stream media about that same idea as though it was brand spanking new! It seems so cheap and I bet highly effective.

Bummer... Now what should I do with my ultimate sun blocking/shading space ship?!?! :)

Be reasonable, at the time we build any useful space vessel for this purpose, we will be long time over "green gas" problem.
To the space, boys! :)
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All the nasty stuff happening in the world today and THIS is what the UN spends part of their time on? They don't even have the authority to enforce any such rule should they decide on it.

@lcpltom: Though to be fair, nobody has the authority to tell the UN what to do, either...

I was just talking about this on the mars colinization page! What if we start on mars with development? We could launch a probe containing nano particles that could either block light from the sun or reflect light back to the surface. If we designed it well you could even control the difference and literaly control surface temperature throughout the entire planet. Maybe control with localized PID control with setpoints established via remote laser programming. Why is the U.N. impeedeing all the geo engineering projects?

Could it be because they stand to loose power and influence if we could simply turn up or down the temperature when we needed and they couldn't regulate carbon because global warning was defeated?

Shit, my evil plan, ruined. Wait a second, what's the penalty for blocking out the sun again? Its not like any nation has the level of spaceflight competence to stop me anymore, mwahahah!

Yes that's a swell idea, let's think of ways to block out our primary source of heat and energy so that we can finally defeat global warming! It's not like that could possibly interfere with our ability to survive or anything.

Sure global warming is still an uncomfirmed theory with very little historical data to back it up, and of course recent events have called the reliability of that data into question, but the UN and Al Gore say global warming is the real deal so this is clearly the best option.

"Since the beginning of time man has yearned to destroy the sun."

-Mr. Burns

Just when we finally had an opportunity to really screw up the planet forever and someone comes along and ruins all the fun. You know if we tried this the law of unforeseen consequences would immediately rear it's ugly head. All the genius' involved will say. "I didn't think of that."
Followed by the ever popular "Aw Sh*t" It happens every day.

The problem with this law is that it leaves us without life jackets. Entiandanlo: Global warming will not stop because the big companies are not going to stop and fail to make billions of dollars in fossil fuel use. In addition, developing countries will continue burning coal in power plants because it is cheaper and politicians in developing countries prefer to use what is cheap to be able to steal the rest of our tax money. The amount of carbon dioxide and produce methane gas is so large that the solutions we apply on the ground will cause a small effect. The planet will continue to warm, and the domino effect by breaking underwater methane deposits go crazy weather. That and a thousand reasons will require a solar shield at the Lagrange point between earth and sun. But the only way to do it cheaper is to launch a capsule with powder to be launched with magnetic catapult. The magnetic catapult is not a luxury, it is something necessary for human survival. Cancel all other astronomical research projects and give priority to the construction of a catapult magnates in the land and a less potent on the moon europa, to launch ice continuously for terraforming Mars as fast, it seems that we need shelters ahead of schedule.

El problema de esta ley es que nos deja sin salvavidas. Entiandanlo: El calentamiento global no se detendra porque las grandes empresas no van a detenerse y dejar de ganar billones de dólares con el uso de combustibles fósiles. Además, los paises en desarrollo seguiran quemando carbón en plantas de generación eléctrica porque es más barato y los políticos de esos países en desarrollo prefieren usar lo que es barato para poderse robar el resto del dinero de nuestros impuestos. La cantidad de dioxido de carbono y gas metano que producimos es tan grande que las soluciones que apliquemos en la tierra causaran un efecto pequeño. El planeta se seguira calentando, y el efecto domino al desprenderse los depositos submarinos de metano enloquecera el clima. Eso y mil razones más harán necesario un escudo solar en el punto lagrange entre la tierra y el sol. Pero el unico modo de hacerlo barato es con el lanzamiento de cápsulas con polvo que sean lanzadas con catapulta magnética. La catapulta magnética no es un lujo; es algo necesario para la supervivencia humana. Cancelen todos los demas proyectos de investigacion astronómica y denle prioridad a la construcción de una catapulta magnatica en la tierra y otra de menos potente en la luna europa, para lanzar continuamente hielo a el planeta Marte para terraformarlo de rápido, que parece que vamos a necesitar refugios antes de lo previsto.