Cooling the Earth with a cloud of small spacecraft near the inner Lagrange point
I don&#x27;t understand why people are still obsessed with &quot;global warming&quot;. The political proponents of it have already changed it to &quot;climate change&quot; after global temperature stopped rising for a decade and it&#x27;s been almost two decades now. I would be much worried about &quot;global cooling&quot; i.e. another ice age.<p>A couple of degree increase over the next hundred years (which is their worst case estimate based on the most advanced models, even though no model has been able to predict anything, only fit historical data) will change nothing. Sea levels will probably rise by a few feet and people living in their beach houses will have to find another vacation spot in 20 years after they notice that the sea has been coming closer to their house since the last decade.<p>Ice age is just as unpredictable (except they don&#x27;t even have a make-believe explanation for it) and could start any time giving us very little time to prepare. If we want humans to suffer less because of it, the least we should do is try to give over a billion people who have no access to electricity some way to make sure that they will be able to heat their houses if it&#x27;s cold, like most of the developed world can... in addition, meanwhile, they can enjoy clean drinking water, washing machines, industries etc.