Space Blankets Explain Global Warming

Plus a bonus boiling pot analogy

Michael Barnard
The Future is Electric
4 min readMay 22, 2022

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You know those incredibly thin and light silver space blankets?

The ones that come in emergency kits and get handed out at the end of athletic events to amateur runners and the like?

How can this absurdly thin piece of crinkly plastic possibly keep people warm, never mind increasing their warmth?

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Michael Barnard
The Future is Electric

Climate futurist and advisor. Founder TFIE. Advisor FLIMAX. Podcast Redefining Energy - Tech.