It is funny how our neighbours in the south are always good for a little entertainment. But this one is just completely mindboggeling to me. At the current Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) meeting in Bangkok the US delegation is apparently, in all honesty, suggesing that humanity is to install giant mirrors in space to deflect the sunlight, that evil, evil sunlight, away from us! Another suggestion, huge ammounts of reflective dust pumped into our atmosphere, to achieve the same.
Irnonically to to read the definition of Smoke and Mirrors by Wikipedia
” Smoke and mirrors is a metaphor for a deceptive, fraudulent or insubstantial explanation or description. The source of the name is based on magicians’ illusions, where magicians use smoke and mirrors to accomplish illusions such as making objects disappear, when they really don’t disappear at all. The expression may have a connotation of virtuosity or cleverness in carrying out such a deception. “