Plans unseen. Image courtesy Wiki

Little did you know, the whole time the fossil fuel industry and their various enablers were busy as bees deflecting and denying the growing consensus of climate science, they actually had a noble motive. Just like an iceberg, the majority of this brilliant scheme was invisible to the uninformed eye.

Satire aside, this might actually work if things get really dire:

A French engineer has come up with an unusual solution for drought: Towing icebergs down from polar regions to solve chronic water shortages in the Horn of Africa, where more than 12 million people are currently living without clean water. George Mougin, 86, first proposed the idea as an engineering graduate in the early 1970s. Together with Saudi prince Muhammad al-Faisal and polar explorer Paul-Emile Victor, Mougin formed the company Iceberg Transportation International …

Satire back on: It’s all incredibly obvious, isn’t it Mandrake? Fluoridated water sapping and impurifying the precious bodily fluids of billions? Western industry loads carbon into atmosphere, global warming creates polar amplification and the cryosphere warms dramatically. The Arctic ice cap shrinks, southern ocean currents change, massive bergs approaching the size of small states calve off, Greenland glaciers quicken their relentless march to the sea adding more floating reservoirs of pure fresh, unfluoridated water. And, when the shifting climate becomes severe enough to start depriving the world’s poorest nations of that sweet elixir of life, when the rainwater is turned off and the fresh water that once drained freely into crystal clear streams from magnificent glacier and snowy mountaintop disappears, philanthropists step in and save them with the water ice finally liberated by our mighty sages of industry from their ancient icy fortresses of solitude.

And we science minded, reality-based writers and researchers and activists had to try to screw it all up by revealing the rise in global temperatures before the plan could mature. Shame on us.