January 13, 2005
The Great Dim
The environmentalist in me (yeah, there's one in there someplace... and he occasionally pops out to say hi) is always looking for something fresh to sink my teeth in. And this one was a surefire eye-opener:
"Why the Sun Seems to be 'Dimming'"
Based on the article's title, I initially thought it'd be some obscure, far-fetched stellar phenomenon much like what led to the Solar System's demise in The Songs of Distant Earth. But alas, it's yet another nail in the oh-God-we've-really-screwed-up-the-planet coffin. *sigh* The only solution I could think of off the top of my head (aside from immediate and drastic reduction in the levels of carbon dioxide humankind belches) was planetwide cremation: let our particulate ash remains keep up the cooling phenomenon to act as a (most likely piss-poor) cushion to the greenhouse effect. Any other bright ideas?
Posted by James at January 13, 2005 03:46 PM