[ExI] Catastrophic Climate Change

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Mon Dec 27 16:42:55 UTC 2010


On 12/27/2010 12:57 AM, John Clark wrote:

> early industrialization caused lots of atmospheric particulate pollution
> that dimmed the sun and may have cooled the planet, but since that
> article was published there has been a big crackdown over that sort of
> pollution resulting in fewer particles in the atmosphere; so global
> warming may be caused by too little pollution.

The contrarian, Prometheus Award-winning sf novel FALLEN ANGELS (1991) 
by Niven, Pournelle and Flynn dramatized that proposition.

Damien Broderick



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