Looping the Hen

Lack of Pollution leads to Global Warming

At least that's what I think this says:

And a NASA study reported Thursday in the journal Science found that an important counter-balance to warming — sunlight blocked by volcanic gases, dust, pollution and other aerosol particles — appears to have weakened.

Didn't we hear forever that we needed to cut our aerosol usage? We did that, and now we get global warming because there aren't enough particles in the air. Shouldn't people worry that trying to prevent global warming might cause some other catastrophe?

This is one of the environmentalist's biggest problems. We live in a huge global ecosystem, and they keep picking bits and pieces to focus on. However, like they've always told us, the butterfly effect effectively prevents us from predicting whether any particular action we take is going to be better than any particular inaction.

I've heard it posited that we are actually in the middle of an ice age and that global warming is the only thing keeping the glaciers from covering huge swathes of land. I don't put a lot of credence into that theory, but the bigger point is that environmentalists, and the global warming fanatics in particular, keep wanting to flip climate switches when they truly have no idea what the ramifications will be.

If we turn off all the coal-fired power plants, will that cause the above problem to get even worse, causing even more global warming? Who knows. I for one would like to keep the electricity flowing so I can turn on whichever I need, my heater or my air conditioner.