Opinion: Blocking the sun to fight climate change. What could go wrong?

Dimming the sun could affect monsoon seasons in Asia and Africa, damaging crops that feed hundreds of millions of people. — Photo by Luis Graterol on Unsplash

STATEN ISLAND: It sounds like a bad sci-fi movie, but it's all too real.

There's been increasing talk lately about a truly mind-boggling proposal that would attack global warming: Blocking the sun, also known as "solar geoengineering."