According to reports, the UK will soon approve experiments to “dim the sun” in an effort to slow down “global warming” (wait—are we back to global warming instead of climate change now?!). How will they dim our sun? Well, they plan to inject aerosols into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight into space, thus creating a cooling effect. Is this wise stewardship?
Well, consider that climate models are consistently wrong, inaccurately predicting the amount of supposed warming and cranking out alarmist predictions that rarely come to be. Or that we’re still making new—and very relevant—discoveries about the climate and how it works. Or that pumping aerosols (the kind of aerosols they are testing with has not been revealed yet) into the atmosphere could have significant, unknown health consequences for mankind, plants, and animals (just for starters, consider that less sunlight means less vitamin D production and that many people, especially in northern areas, are already deficient in this vital nutrient). Or that “stratospheric aerosol injection poses dangers such as the possibility of reduced rainfall in certain areas, with accompanying ‘loss of crops and access to freshwater.’”
This kind of human hubris—thinking we can do good for the planet by messing with weather, clouds, and the atmosphere—is the result of humans thinking that we’re in control, we’re very wise and knowledgeable about God’s extremely complex creation, and we can save ourselves. It’s a result of buying into climate hysteria!
But there is no “climate crisis.” The science is far from the settled research the media would have you to believe—that’s why the predictions made by climate models are wrong over and over again! And historically, climate has always varied, warming or cooling based on a variety of factors that have nothing to do with our modern carbon emissions.
There are very real ecological problems on earth today, but dimming the sun won’t solve them. Instead of focusing time, effort, and money on foolish projects with unknown downstream consequences, we should be working to be good stewards of creation, caring for God’s creation with wisdom and humility, for the good of mankind and the glory of God.
They need to read, understand, and believe this verse: “While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.” (Genesis 8:22)
