Looking for His glorious appearing! Titus 2:13

They Look Him and Cast Him Into a Pit - Genesis 37:24
Oct 3rd, 2019
Morning MeditationF. B. Meyer
Categories: Meditation;Inspirational;Book Study

It is impossible to read this inimitable story without detecting in the water-mark of the paper on which it is written the name Jesus. Indeed, we lose much of the beauty and force of these early Scriptures if we fail to observe the references to the life, character, and work of the blessed Redeemer. Notice some of these precious analogies:-

Our Saviour's shepherd-heart (Genesis 37:2).

The love of the Father before the worlds were made (Genesis 37:3).

The dreams of empire, which are so certainly to be realized, when we shall see Him acknowledged as King of kings and Lord of lords (Genesis 37:7).

Envied by His brethren, to whom He came, though they received Him not (Genesis 37:11).

His alacrity to do His Father's will, and to finish His work, in which will we too have been sanctified (Genesis 37:13).

Cast into the pit of the grave, as a seed-corn into the ground to die, that He might not abide alone, but bear much fruit (Genesis 37:24).

The thirty pieces of silver for which He was betrayed (Genesis 37:28).

The indifference of the Jewish people to their great Brother's fate (Genesis 37:25).

Rejected of the Jew, and turning to the Gentile (Genesis 37:28).

The bitter grief which His rejection has brought on the Jewish people (Genesis 37:35)-

It is as though the Holy Ghost, eager to glorify the Lord, could not wait for the slow unfolding of history, but must anticipate the story of that precious life and death which were to make the world new again.

Let the Headlines Speak
Oct 3rd, 2019
Daily NewsFrom the Internet
Categories: Today's Headlines

Rabbis Predict: Catastrophic Era of Earthquakes in US Will Be Set Off by Atomic Bombs, Nibiru, and Pornography
The Hebrew language Torah website Sod 1820 suggest that the source of the Calfornia earthquakes was the state’s connection with a very specific sin. The site noted that the word ‘California’ in Hebrew is קליפורניה which could be formed by a contraction of the words קליפה (‘klipah’ meaning husk or in kabbalistic terms, a sin), the word פורנו (porno), and יה (the letters yud and heh which are a contraction of the four-letter name of God). The site notes that California, more specifically Los Angeles, hosts the most thriving pornography industries in the world. Rabbi Nir Ben Artzi, a mystic rabbi in Israel with a large following, predicted last week that the year 5780 which began on Monday will signal an increase in earthquakes and other natural disasters.

Pope Francis sends gifts to mosque to show ‘esteem and affection to the Muslim community’
Cardinal Maurice Piat, Bishop of Port-Louis, Mauritius, presented two gifts to a local mosque on behalf of Pope Francis last week, one a copy of the controversial Abu-Dhabi statement which claims that a diversity of religions is willed by God. The pope “also wanted to show his esteem and affection for the Muslim community,” according to the report.

Court Hands ‘Stunning’ Victory to InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
Rules University of Iowa Officials Must Pay From Their Own Pockets For Their Religious Discrimination. In a stunning decision, a federal judge has ruled that officials at the University of Iowa violated the law when they kicked InterVarsity Christian Fellowship off their campus and that they are personally responsible for costs incurred by InterVarsity in defending its rights.

North Korea fires possible submarine-launched ballistic missile: South Korea
North Korea fired at least one missile off its east coast on Wednesday that South Korea said may have been launched from a submarine, a day after it announced the resumption of talks with the United States aimed at ending its nuclear program.

As attack drones multiply, Israeli firms develop defenses
A host of Israeli companies have developed defense systems they say can detect or destroy incoming drones. But obstacles remain, particularly when operating in crowded urban airspaces. “Fighting these systems is really hard … not just because you need to detect them, but you also need to detect them everywhere and all the time,” said Ulrike Franke, a policy fellow at the European Council of Foreign Relations. Drones present unique challenges that set them apart from traditional airborne threats, such as missiles or warplanes.

Top Iranian general says ‘dream’ of destroying Israel now an ‘achievable goal’
The leader of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said Iran’s technological advances have brought it closer to the goal of destroying Israel. In comments published by a Revolutionary Guard publication and reported by Voices of America, Major General Hossein Salami said Iran has gained the capacity to destroy the “imposter Zionist regime,” referring to Israel. “This sinister regime must be wiped off the map and this is no longer… a dream (but) it is an achievable goal,” said the leader of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.

FBI stats show 5 times more murders by knives than rifles in 2018
A fact sheet of the FBI’s 2018 crime statistics published Monday detailed some of the Bureau’s analysis of crime statistics, particularly studying the types of weapons used in murders. Rifles, as a particular category of firearm, were used to kill 297 people in 2018. By comparison, knives and other cutting instruments were the murder weapon for 1,515 murders in 2018. Murderers even used their hands and feet more often than rifles, accounting for 672 murder victims in 2018.

Tropical disturbance could move into Gulf of Mexico by Friday
Hurricane forecasters Tuesday morning were tracking a tropical disturbance they say could move into the southern Gulf of Mexico by Friday. It has a 10% chance of developing into at least a tropical depression. Forecasters also were tracking Hurricane Lorenzo and an additional weather disturbance in the Atlantic.

Historian Victor Davis Hanson Says 2020 Will Be Far Better Than Even Trump Imagines
Historian and political commentator Victor Davis Hanson believes the Democrats will get a short sugar rush from their latest efforts to impeach Donald Trump, but in a matter of weeks it will turn in the president’s favor and lead to a big win in 2020.

Iran’s Rouhani says French plan for talks broadly is acceptable
A plan for talks presented to the United States and Iran by French President Emmanuel Macron is broadly acceptable to the Islamic Republic, President Hassan Rouhani said… He said some wording needed to be changed in the plan, which outlines that Iran will not pursue nuclear weapons and will help the security of the region and its waterways, while Washington will remove all sanctions.

Hong Kong protest: City reels from ‘one of its most violent days’
The 70th anniversary of Communist Party rule in China was “one of Hong Kong’s most violent and chaotic days”, the city’s police chief has said. An 18-year-old protester was shot in the chest with a live bullet – one of six live rounds fired by police. Protesters – some armed with petrol bombs and other projectiles – fought pitched battles with police in several parts of Hong Kong.

North Korea may have fired missile from submarine
North Korea may have fired a ballistic missile from a submarine, a move that came just hours after Pyongyang said it would resume nuclear talks with the US. South Korean officials said a missile launched near the port of Wonsan flew about 450km (280 miles) and reached an altitude of 910km, before landing in the Sea of Japan.

Finland college attack: Sword attacker kills woman in Kuopio
A woman has been killed and 10 other people wounded in an attack at a vocational school in the Finnish city of Kuopio, police say. A witness told Finnish media that a student entered Savo college carrying a sword and stabbed several people. Police said the suspect was carrying a “sabre-like weapon” and a gun.

Israel PM Netanyahu faces final hearings in corruption cases
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing a series of final hearings before a decision is made on whether to charge him with corruption. His lawyers will try to persuade the attorney-general not to proceed with indictments for bribery, fraud and breach of trust in three cases.

Iran court sentences ‘US spy’ to death
Iran’s judiciary says it has convicted three people of spying for the US, sentencing one of them to death, and another person of spying for the UK. Spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili said two men, Ali Nafariyeh and Mohammadali Babapour, had received 10-year prison sentences for working for the CIA. Mohammad Amin Nasab was jailed for 10 years for aiding British intelligence.

Neo-Nazi protestors in Germany call for Palestinian help against Israel
Dozens of neo-Nazis marched through the German city of Dortmund on Monday, calling for Palestinian support to eradicate Israel. The demonstration, which came on the heels of an anti-fascist protest in the western German city, involved approximately seventy neo-Nazi activists marching through the streets, holding flags of the Third Reich flag and chanting, “Palestine help us, Israel still exists” and “Israel no more.”

Over 50% of young Americans think climate change means the world is about to end:
More than half of young Americans fear the end of humanity is near because of climate change, according to a recent survey.

Hindu radicals livestream attack on Christians to ‘make area free of Christianity’
Indian authorities jailed church leaders and their families after Hindu extremists disrupted a worship service, beat individuals, and livestreamed the events on Facebook in efforts to make the area “free of Christianity.”

More than 1,600 die in India’s heaviest monsoon season for 25 years
The heaviest monsoon rains to lash India in 25 years have killed more than 1,600 people since June, government data showed on Tuesday, as authorities battled floods in two northern states and muddy waters swirled inside a major city.

Dozens of Extreme Leftist Congressional Democrats Are Members of the Communist Party In Pelosi Led Coup Against the USA
Trevor Loudon’s expert research skills are on display as dozens of modern Democrats are discovered to have close ties to the Democratic Socialists and the American Communist Party.

A Failed Schiff/CIA Led Coup Against Trump Will Bring Hillary Into the Presidential Race with Dire Consequences
On the way to writing an article, I received a call from an insider source that confirmed and expanded upon what I knew about the latest attempt to impeach President Trump and who is behind it.

Aviation Color Code Red, ash emissions intensifying at Etna volcano, Italy
Ash emissions at Italy’s Etna volcano are intensifying on October 1, 2019, INGV reports. The Aviation Color Code has been raised to Red.

Teen Experiences Serious Complications after School Inserts Birth Control Implant Without Parental Consent
…Nicole Lambert’s then-sixteen-year-old daughter was complaining of arm pain, so her mother took her to the pediatrician, who discovered that an improperly inserted Nexplanon birth control device was the culprit. It was the school nurse who inserted it.

Bill Gates wants to spray millions of tonnes of dust into the stratosphere to stop global warming
The plan sounds like science fiction — but could be fact within a decade; every day more than 800 giant aircraft would lift millions of tonnes of chalk dust to a height of 12 miles above the Earth’s surface and then sprinkle the lot high around the stratosphere.

EXPLOSIVE REPORT: Rep. Adam Schiff Linked to Prominent Ukrainian Arms Dealer!
Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff is connected to a Ukrainian arms dealer. Is this why he’s willing to lie in front of the nation when accusing President Trump of crimes?

Annual ‘Bring Your Bible to School Day’ Set for Oct. 3, Send Your Photos with Friends to CBN News
Students across the country are being invited to live their faith by bringing their Bibles to school on Thursday, Oct. 3.

Did The Democrats Bring Impeachment In Order To Remove Frontrunner Joe Biden And Allow Hillary Clinton To Steal The Nomination…Again?|
With each passing day, it becomes more and more apparent as to exactly why the Democrats chose to impeach Donald Trump over a scandal in Ukraine that has very little to do with him, but everything to do with Joe Biden.

Science Catastrophe In South America Could Kill Millions
The releases of genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) into the natural environment is having a catastrophic and irreversible impact on our planet. A company known as Oxitec, based out of the United Kingdom, which had announced plans to release genetically-engineered, or transgenic, mosquitoes into the wild.

Church Of Sweden Announced Greta Thunberg ‘Successor’ Of Jesus
The Church of Sweden, which has routinely promoted teen climate change alarmist Greta Thunberg, announced the young girl a “successor” to Jesus Christ last December.

Democratic Candidate Joe Biden Refers To 63,000,000 Donald Trump Supporters As The ‘Dregs Of Society’ In Speech At LGBTQ+P For Pedophile Event
Democrats want you to know two things right off the bat. First thing is pretty obvious, Donald Trump lives in their heads and they hate him for it. Second, the Democrats hate you if you voted for Donald Trump in 2016.

China's Mega - Surveillance State: Merging Ai, Facial Recognition & Social Credit
Oct 3rd, 2019
CommentaryAARON KESEL/ACTIVIST POST
Categories: Warning

China wants to give its prisoners (populace) the ability to pay with their faces to ride subways; this will be combined with its social credit program -- which already tracks the communist nation's citizens traveling -- and if points are too low, it prevents travel.

The new program, which must have been assembled from George Orwell's apparent instruction manual 1984, is slowly rolling out throughout China in several cities, The Standard reported.

In Shenzhen, China, home of OnePlus, Huawei and internet giant Tencent, the city has released a new government system for elderly Chinese. This new program will allow residents of China over the age of 60 to register for free subway rides, using just their face as their ticket.

If you think this is just a one-off, you would be utterly wrong. This form of facial recognition is already being experimented in other cities including Jinan, Shanghai and Nanjing according to the South China Morning Post.

China is planning to merge its 170+ million security cameras with artificial intelligence and facial recognition technology to create a mega-surveillance state. This compounds with China's "social credit system" that ranks citizens based on their behavior, and rewards and punishes depending on those scores.

The effort of using facial recognition as a ticket -- especially as an incentive -- is spreading across the world, starting with entertainment concert venues which Fight For The Future and dozens of artists strongly oppose as Activist Post reported. 

That's not all -- even retail is pushing to forcefully indoctrinate society to use facial recognition technology as an anti-theft mechanism to be introduced in a thousands of stores using biometric software FaceFirst to build a database of shoplifters, as Activist Post reported.

Lately, BIG brother has been pushing the use of surveillance technology, from Amazon helping law enforcement with its Facial Rekogntion software, DHS wanting to use it for border control, to the Olympics wanting to use the tech for security.

Further, some of the biggest airports in the U.S. -- estimated at 16 airports across the nation -- are now scanning us as we board international flights. CBP (Customs And Border Patrol) expects to scale up the program to cover more than 97 percent of passengers flying outside of the U.S. by 2021 according to NextGov.

It's all a part of U.S. President Donald Trump's "Biometric Exit" agenda, which was originally signed into law under the Obama administration, BuzzFeed News reported.

Further, the policy director of U.S. CBP believes that facial recognition has already become essential. The agency's head Deputy Executive Assistant Commissioner John Wagner has also hilariously said that its facial tracking technology isn't surveillance, as Activist Post reported.

In 2017, Homeland Security clarified their position on domestic spying stating that Americans who don't want their faces scanned leaving the country "shouldn't travel."

"The only way for an individual to ensure he or she is not subject to collection of biometric information when traveling internationally is to refrain from traveling," the DHS wrote in a document.

This nightmarish reality if it comes to fruition will see everyone scrutinized and their bio identics in numerous government databases. This would allow anyone access to our biometrics at any single point in time, whether that's our fingerprints, face, voice, or financial purchases for advertisers.

If that wasn't bad enough, Chinese scientists have recently developed an artificial intelligence (AI) enabled 500 megapixel cloud camera that's capable of panoramic capture of an entire stadium with the ability to target a single individual in an instant, Global Times reported.

The upgrade to facial recognition technology is developed by Shanghai-based Fudan University and Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences in Changchun, capital of Northeast China's Jilin Province.

Fudan University and Changchun Institute of Optics aren't the first researchers to advance facial recognition. There is also Shanghai-based YITU Technology which has evolved the facial recognition industry by being able to identify a person within a matter of seconds from a database of people, even if only their partial face is visible, CNBC reported.

The evolution of facial recognition technology is further documented by researchers at the University of Bradford have found that "facial recognition technology works even when only half a face is visible," according to EurekAlert. Although, this upgraded technology hasn't been tested by police to this writer's knowledge, and let's hope that it never is, for if it does civil liberties and privacy will cease to exist.

If Americans aren't careful we will soon have the same surveillance state and facial recognition dystopia that Chinese citizens now have in 2019. 

Already, facial recognition cameras are being suggested to be installed in subways, trains and bus stations like recently in New York. Earlier this year, the head of the MTA's finance committee, Larry Schwartz, called for the installation of surveillance cameras and facial recognition technology to catch and deter criminals.

Although, the Chinese have gotten a head start on everyone with their social credit program that is already being flaunted in the U.S. and its world-famous Chinese Firewall preventing its populace from speaking out, arresting dissidents, imprisoning Muslim Uygurs aided by big tech like Google.

Privacy advocate groups, attorneys, and even more recently Microsoft, which also markets its own facial recognition system, have all raised concerns over the technology, pointing to issues of consent, racial profiling, and the potential to use images gathered through facial recognition cameras as evidence of criminal guilt by law enforcement.

"We don't want to live in a world where government bureaucrats can enter in your name into a database and get a record of where you've been and what your financial, political, sexual, and medical associations and activities are," Jay Stanley, an attorney with ACLU, told BuzzFeed News about the use of facial recognition cameras in retail stores. "And we don't want a world in which people are being stopped and hassled by authorities because they bear resemblance to some scary character."

Meanwhile in the UK, YouGov carried out Britain's first national survey on public opinion regarding the use of facial recognition tech by the Ada Lovelace Institute. The institute found that, out of 4,109 adults aged over 16 questioned on the opinions of the technology -- a massive 55 percent said they wanted the UK government to impose restrictions on the tech.

In addition, a 46 percent of respondents said they want the right to opt-out of the use of facial recognition technology and 61 percent of people opposed the use of facial recognition tech on public transport.

On the other side of the hemisphere, another national survey in the U.S. of 3,151 U.S. adults in December take by the Center for Data Innovation, found only one in four Americans believe the federal government should strictly limit the use of facial recognition biometrics technology.

The survey also indicated Americans are more likely to support a trade-off to their own privacy caused by biometric technology if it benefits law enforcement, reduces shoplifting or speeds up airport security lines.

Only 18 percent of those polled stated they agreed with strict limitations on facial recognition tech if it comes at the expense of public safety, compared to 55 percent who disagreed with such limitations.

However, a poll from the Brookings Institution in September 2018 contradicts that and found half of Americans favored limitations of the use of facial recognition by law enforcement, while 42 percent felt it invaded personal privacy rights.

There is still hope for Americans with Congressmen being opposed to the use of the technology and calling for a "halt" of its deployment. However, despite Congressional hearings on the matter police departments across the U.S. like Detroit have  decided to go forward with a facial recognition program for police. The program has already drawn severe blowback with activists protesting the decision.

Already, we have had several wins in this long fight and there are signs of hope. First, San Francisco banned facial recognition technology being used by the government in May of this year, then Somerville, Massachusetts, and Oakland, California followed suit.

The rapid growth of this technology has triggered a much-needed debate to slow down the roll out. Activists, politicians, academics and even police forces all over the world are expressing serious concerns over the impact facial recognition could have on our society.

Several lawmakers have even chimed in to voice concerns about Amazon's facial recognition software, expressing worry that it could be misused, The Hill reported.

A Senate bill introduced in March would force companies who want to use facial recognition technology on consumers to first get their consent. If that happens as soon as the ink is dry Amazon's Ring and Amazon's Facial Recognition which heavily relies on facial recognition technology could be banned across the U.S.

Congress under the House Oversight Committee recently held a bipartisan discussion on the issue of regulating the use of facial recognition technology and biometric cameras.

House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) said, "there are virtually no controls .... Whatever walk of life you come from, you may be a part of this [surveillance] process."

The committee's top Republican Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio.) also expressed "It's time for a time out" on government use of the surveillance technology.

Fight For The Future has previously launched a first-of-its-kind interactive map that tracks where in the U.S. facial recognition technology is being used and where it is being resisted, along with a tool-kit for local activists who want to help kickstart a ban in their city or state, as Activist Post reported.

Consent to be identified by the government whenever and wherever we go is approval to have the government decide whether, when, and where we are allowed to travel like China. Making our faces be our travel card is put bluntly: a very dangerous precedent to allow.

We can't change our facial structures, all of a sudden you could find yourself being blocked from services just because the government doesn't like you or your politics.

If all else fails, I suppose we could all use anti-facial recognition lasers like the protesters in Hong Kong did to disrupt the systems. At least until the artificial intelligence evolves to the point which even George Orwell couldn't have imagined.

Bill Gates Wants to Spray Millions of Tonnes of Dust Into the Stratosphere to Stop Global Warming
Oct 3rd, 2019
CommentaryDailey Mail.com
Categories: Warning

Could dimming the sun save the Earth? Bill Gates wants to spray millions of tonnes of dust into the stratosphere to stop global warming... but critics fear it could trigger calamity

The plan sounds like science fiction — but could be fact within a decade; every day more than 800 giant aircraft would lift millions of tonnes of chalk dust to a height of 12 miles above the Earth's surface and then sprinkle the lot high around the stratosphere.

In theory, the airborne dust would create a gigantic sunshade, reflecting some of the Sun's rays and heat back into space, dimming those that get through and so protecting Earth from the worsening ravages of climate warming.

This is not the crackpot plan of a garden-shed inventor. The project is being funded by billionaire and Microsoft founder Bill Gates and pioneered by scientists at Harvard University.

Indeed, the plans are so well advanced that the initial 'sky-clouding' experiments were meant to have begun months ago.

This initial $3 million test, known as Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx) would use a high-altitude scientific balloon to raise around 2kg of calcium carbonate dust — the size of a bag of flour — into the atmosphere 12 miles above the desert of New Mexico.

This would seed a tube-shaped area of sky half a mile long and 100 yards in diameter. For the ensuing 24 hours, the balloon would be steered by propellers back through this artificial cloud, its onboard sensors monitoring both the dust's sun-reflecting abilities and its effects on the thin surrounding air.

SCoPEx is, however, on hold, amid fears that it could trigger a disastrous series of chain reactions, creating climate havoc in the form of serious droughts and hurricanes, and bring death to millions of people around the world.

One of the Harvard team's directors, Lizzie Burns, admits: 'Our idea is terrifying… But so is climate change.' An advisory panel of independent experts is to assess all the possible risks associated with it.

So where did the idea for such a mind-boggling scheme come from?

The inspiration was in part spawned by a natural disaster. When the volcano Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines exploded in 1991, it killed more than 700 people and left more than 200,000 homeless.

But it also gave scientists the chance to monitor the consequences of a vast chemical cloud in the stratosphere.

The volcano disgorged 20 million tonnes of sulphur dioxide high above the planet, where it formed droplets of sulphuric acid that floated around the globe for more than a year. These droplets acted like tiny mirrors to reflect sunlight.

As a result, global temperatures were reduced by 0.5c for around a year and a half.

This gave impetus to a idea of a dream 'fix' of global warming — and has been the subject of at least 100 academic papers.

But creating what amounts to a gigantic sunshade for the Earth may come at a high price, posing even greater risks than climate change itself.

One fear is that spreading dust into the stratosphere may damage the ozone layer that protects us from hazardous ultraviolet radiation which can damage human DNA and cause cancers.

Climatologists are also concerned that such tinkering could unintentionally disrupt the circulation of ocean currents that regulate our weather.

This itself could unleash a global outbreak of extreme climatic events that might devastate farmland, wipe out entire species and foster disease epidemics.

The potential for disaster does not even end there. Trying to dim the Sun's rays would likely create climate winners and losers.

Scientists may be able to set the perfect climatic conditions for farmers in America's vast Midwest, but at the same time this setting might wreak drought havoc across Africa.

For it is not possible to change the temperature in one part of the world and not disturb the rest. Everything in the world's climate is interconnected.

Furthermore, any change in global average temperature would in turn change the way in which heat is distributed around the globe, with some places warming more than others.

This, in turn, would affect rain levels. Heat drives the water cycle — in which water evaporates, forms clouds and drops as rain. Any heat alteration would cause an accompanying shift in rainfall patterns. But how and where exactly?

There is no way of predicting how the world's long-term weather may respond to having a gigantic chemical sunshade plonked on top of it.

As one of the world's leading climate experts Janos Pasztor — who advised at the UN's Paris climate agreement and now works for New York's highly respected Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative — warns: 'If you make use of this technology and do it badly or ungoverned, then you can have different kinds of global risks created that can have equal, if not even bigger, challenges to global society than climate change.'

The technology may even spark terrible wars. For tinkering with our climate could send sky-high the potential for international suspicion and armed conflict.

Say, for example, the Chinese government — which already has been experimenting with climate-altering technology — used its burgeoning space-age scientific know-how to try to dust the stratosphere to protect its own agricultural yields.

Then two years later the monsoons fail in neighbouring Asian giant India, causing widespread starvation and disease. Even if the Chinese move had not actually caused the monsoons to fail, billions would blame them.

There is a further peril. The technology involved is seductively cheap, perhaps less than $10 billion a year. This means that an individual nation could use it for their own ends — perhaps as a weapon of war or blackmail.

What's to stop a nation such as Russia interfering with our weather in the same way it has interfered with elections and social media opinions?

Nevertheless, Harvard scientists maintain that they can manage their brainchild safely.

For example, one of the SCoPEx team's leaders, David Keith, a professor of applied physics, recently reported that by evenly seeding the entire global atmosphere with low levels of reflective dust, there should be a far lower risk of unexpected problems than is feared.

Professor Keith has also suggested that the world's richer nations should club together to create a pooled global insurance fund to compensate poorer countries for any damage unintentionally caused by their sun-shield experimentation.

Critics point out that the promise of a stratospheric sunshade could encourage politicians and industrialists to decide that there is no need to do the hard, unpopular and expensive work of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Mike Hulme, a Cambridge University professor of human geography and former scientist on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, says we could end up instead relying massively on technology to compensate for climate problems that our industries are causing.

He calls this spiralling problem 'temperature debt', because it is like amassing credit-card debts that can never be paid off. 'It is a massive gamble,' Professor Hulme warns. 'Far better not to build up this debt in the first place.'

Even greater questions arise. How do you switch such a global cooling system off? And what unforeseen consequences would arise if you suddenly did so.

This dream 'fix' seems to have plenty of potential to become a global nightmare.