Here It Comes

In 2012, an entrepreneur added 100 tons of iron to the ocean and created a dramatic short-term plankton bloom. Many scientists and policymakers worried about what else could happen if commercial entities scaled up without government oversight. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is releasing a report in response to a Congressional mandate in the Consolidated Appropriations Act 2022 related to solar radiation modification, also known as solar geoengineering. Guy Mc Pherson predicted this along time ago. Capitalists would let the warming get to a crisis stage, start wringing their hands about "no viable solution" and go for the obvious fix- geoengineering. In my novel a group of capitalists decide to take matter into their own hands, with disatrous results. Kim Stanley Robinson has a less dire result in his novel. In any case, geoengineering is what you get when the obvious solution - stop burning fossil fuels- is beyond the pale.