Why Do Sceptics Abandon Scepticism When Faced With Claims the Government Could Block Out the Sun?

 According to the Telegraph, the Government is now taking seriously the possibility that Britain’s ever-growing list of mortal enemies might be considering denying our island the sunlight given to us by God himself. “Third-party actors could include countries taking drastic action to lower their carbon emissions,” explains the newspaper. 

Or worse, experts warn that latter-day Bond villains and “hostile nations such as Russia” might be planning to use “solar geoengineering to orchestrate an environmental disaster against their enemies”. Climate change mitigation, then, could be a pretext for interventions that destroy our food and plunge us into a cold and dark future. 

That being the same premise as the humans’ strike against the machines in The Matrix is not this story’s only resonance with daft sci-fi plots....<<<Read More>>>...