A Modest Proposal

Here's a guy who wants to solve global warming by filling the upper
atmosphere with SO2.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/6369971.stm

I think this would be a great market for suborbital space transports.

http://www.transterrestrial.com/archives/008613.html#008613
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