My column’s word of the week is geoengineering – and it just might dim your perception of the world around you … but in a good way. Explanation needed.

I first heard of the geoengineering process through a hippy-turned-chemist (don’t go there) buddy of mine. He is currently working with an out-west firm perfecting tiny specks of reflective stuff that can be rocketed into Earth’s uppermost atmosphere to thereafter reflect arriving sun beams back into the solar system, thusly preventing said beams from warming our globe to hell and back. Whew!