December 21, 2013  THE GEOPOLITICS OF GEOENGINEERING. “Keith is
steadfastly confident about the technical details. He says a
program to cool the planet with sulfate aerosols—solar
geoengineering—could probably begin by 2020, using a small fleet
of planes flying regular aerosol-spraying missions at high
altitudes. Since sunlight drives precipitation, could reducing
it lead to droughts? Not if geoengineering was used sparingly,
he concludes.”  Do we have a plan to offset global cooling?