Local Man Paints Everything White

Claims he can reverse climate change

A friend of mine at the Climate Foundation is keen on marine cloud brightening to refreeze the Arctic, which could potentially arrest the meandering Rossby Waves that have been churning car soups and igniting wildfires all over the globe. My concern with that kind of geoengineering has always been its potential for unintended consequences, such as termination shock when you stop the treatment, for whatever reason. I have always believed that harnessing self-reinforcing natural processes rather than inventing man-made patches is a more effective approach. That is what happened when Franklin Roosevelt planted trees in 1934.

The Great Plains Shelterbelt (or Prairie States Forestry Project) was a massive federal initiative, begun during the Great Depression, intended to arrest the Dust Bowl by planting windbreaks — more than 220 million trees by 1942, across a 100-mile-wide, 1,300-mile-long green belt from Canada to Northern Texas, covering about 18,600 square miles. Alongside tree planting, CCC and WPA recruits led by Raphael Zon at the US…