In a blast from our childhood, one global warming alarmist appears to be channeling Cobra’s (GI Joe nemesis) effort to manipulate the planet’s weather.

Jamais Cascio, a futurist and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, is calling for the use of geoengineering, a radical step that he says is necessary to “avoid climate disaster.”

In his Wall Street Journal article, Cascio states:

“If we want to avoid an unprecedented global catastrophe, we may have no other choice but to reduce the impact of global warming, alongside focusing on the factors that are causing it in the first place. That is, while we continue to work aggressively to reduce the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere, we also need to consider lowering the temperature of the Earth itself.”

Of the geoengineering options being considered to help reduce the Earth’s temperature, Cascio prefers two methods that look promising.  They are:

“injecting tons of sulfates—essentially solid particles of sulfur dioxide—into the stratosphere, and pumping seawater into the lower atmosphere to create clouds.”

Calls to use of such extreme measures will no doubt face steep political challenges, as Cascio acknowledges.  In fact, many still argue for the reconsideration of global warming science.

Nevertheless, if geoengineering is the wave of the future, then let me be the first to cast my vote for the Weather Dominator.