For the past few decades the scientific and global community have been hard at work trying to figure out ways to deal with global warming and hopefully preserve the earth’s ecosystem. Late last night, I was watching E.O.Wilson, the eminent Harvard socio-biologist, on Charlie Rose expressing his concern of the consequences of global warming and ways to deal with it (a real exciting Wednesday night in the city, I know). And today, as I was quickly glancing at the scientific section of Haaretz, hoping to squeeze in another few minutes of morning blare, an article on an environmental conference taking place at Tel Aviv University’s Porter School of Environmental Studies caught my eye.

It wasn’t the conference that got my attention, but the idea of Professor Paul J.Krutzen, holder of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Krutzen believes that he has an idea that might save the world from global warming. He suggests building gargantuan cannons that would shoot enormous quantities of sulfur into the stratosphere, thereby blocking solar radiation, and that is so frickin’ cool! Although his idea has made a buzz in the scientific world when first published in an article, a long series of potentially odiferous experiments and research will be required to examine Krutzen’s suggestions.

Scientists believe we are sitting on a ticking eco-bomb, so why not bombard the stratosphere with a gigantic cloud of noxious fumes? It seems to have worked for New Jersey. Those perpetual pink skies are not only eerily beautiful, but I have on good word, also act as a thick layer of solar insulation.

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