It's been a while since we've had a dramatic reading.

Shall we start with a dramatic reading?

The climatic changes that may be produced by the increased CO2 content

could be deleterious from the point of view of human beings.

This is the very first government report to mention climate change,

submitted to President Lyndon Johnson in 1965.

The possibilities of deliberately bringing about countervailing climatic

changes, therefore, need to be thoroughly explored. The report lays out the sources of CO2, dirt, fossil fuels, the possible downsides of global warming,

which you know already, and then without even momentary contemplation of ceasing emissions,

pivots directly to this. A change in the radiation balance. of could be produced by raising the albedo or reflectivity of the earth.

Such a change of albedo could be brought about, for example, by spreading very small, reflecting particles over large oceanic areas.

Just to lay it out, this report is saying,

global warming is a problem, yes, but to solve it,

we could just spread something reflective over all of the oceans like glitter for example

five million square miles of them that's less than 4% of the surface area of the world salt

water this might be the original sin of what's called geoengineering.

Reading this makes it feel like we gave up on avoiding climate change before it had even really

started.

The report even estimates what it would cost.

It says it would be pretty cheap.

Thus a 1% change in reflectivity

might be brought about for about $500 million a year, considering the extraordinary, economic, and

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