How we will deal with Climate Change
This is not a suggestion, it is a grim prediction.
Nothing much will be done. Then, at some point after the thing reaches a critical-mass stage somebody will attempt to cool the planet.
I don't mean reducing emissions of green-house gases to stop heating the planet. I mean cooling the planet. Litterally reducing the amount of solar energy reaching the planet.
There are ways to do this. For instance, the smoke from the full-on thermonuclear destruction of Siberia would cool the planet a great deal, being similar to the mini-ice age caused by the explosion of Krakatoa that blew incredible amounts of ash high into the atmosphere. (And that effect despite the tremendous emission of greenhouse gases from Krakatoa.) I don't know whether wholesale nuking of the Gobi desert or Autralian outback would do the trick... I don't know whether enough particulates would reach high enough atmosphere.
Or the ionosphere could be seeded with reflective space trash to increase Earth's albedo.
Or some other crazy ice-age inducing thing. We are very inventive when it becomes crazy-time.
The problem is, of course, that nobody knows how to fine tune such catastrophic approaches to a planetary thermostat.
But if the effects get as bad as folks predict then of course we would try something.
So just add all that to everyone's scenarios. Not only are we are likely to ignore the thing until it is past catastrophic and largely irreparable, we are likely to then spring into action.
That's just how we roll.
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