Scientists around the world are advancing efforts to fulfill Bill Gates’ plan to supposedly stop “global warming” by blocking out light and heat from the Sun.
Silicon Valley elites are throwing their financial weight behind a controversial scheme to fight “climate change” — worldwide weather modification.
One of the new VC-funded start-ups, Make Sunsets, has already launched balloons over Baja, Mexico.
The balloons are releasing sunlight-reflecting aerosols into Earth’s stratosphere.
The firm’s concept is to cool Earth by reflecting sunlight back into space via sulfate aerosols.
However, the plan is not new.
In fact, it’s one of many exotic ideas now actively funded by Microsoft co-founder Gates, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and others in Big Tech.
However, Make Sunsets’ solar geoengineering, which they hope to fund by selling “cooling credits” to green agenda companies, is causing leading experts to raise the alarm.
Researchers across academia, government, and even global insurance agencies have warned of unintended consequences of weather modification.
They warn that it could trigger regional droughts, crop failures, and shifts to the Atlantic jet stream, which could drag hurricanes and tropical diseases north.
Mexico’s environmental ministry blasted Make Sunsets last year for conducting their rogue experiments within their nation’s borders.
Officials accused the company of operating “without prior notice and without the consent of the Mexican government and the surrounding communities.”
But many of these concerns are premised on the idea that such small independent companies like Make Sunsets can manage to work in concert or be effective at all.
As Adrian Hindes, a PhD candidate at Australian National University, explained:
“Make Sunsets efforts, at least at present, are nowhere near at a scale necessary for actually causing global temperatures to decline meaningfully.”
Climate tech researcher Dr. Shuchi Talati at American University similarly called the firm’s business plan “a speculative form of ‘junk credit’ that is unlikely to have value.”
And yet, the start-up has already raised over $1 million from billionaire technocrats looking to cash in on the so-called “climate crisis.”
Similar firms are also racing to profit off VC interest, including Israel‘s Stardust Solutions, which has raised $15 million.
“At some point down the road, they’re going to do this at a big enough scale to trigger some sort of climate impact,” according to Talati.
Talati is also the founder of the nonprofit Alliance for Just Deliberation on Solar Geoengineering.
Talati, like many public policy researchers and climate scientists, has expressed real fear that the local effects of geoengineering could cancel out the alleged benefits.
“It can be done in an effective, globally governed way, or it can be done by two crazy people in California, and it can look horrible for a lot of people,” she told NPR.
Hindes warns that there is also potential for plans like Make Sunsets’ sulfur balloons to harm local farming.
“[But] this is one of the areas which has the highest uncertainty and least agreement across published research at present,” the Australian researcher noted.
There are a number of geo-engineering theories being proposed, including “shinier crops and buildings to reflect more sunlight,” microbubbles in the ocean, and the removal of cirrus clouds.
“Global warming from excess greenhouse gases accelerates the hydrological cycle,” Hindes claimed.
“Cooling the planet by SAI or [other geoengineering like marine cloud brightening] would slow it down, but not perfectly since neither is ‘anti-CO2’,” Hindes added.
In other words, even though such vast aerial seeding techniques might succeed in cooling Earth, the process would still leave ever-growing volumes of carbon dioxide (CO2) gas in Earth’s atmosphere.
“Plants close their stomata [tiny pores critical for photosynthesis] to retain more moisture with higher CO2 levels,” Hindes said.
Hindes claims that globalists will also need to find ways to remove CO2 from the atmosphere alongside blocking sunlight from reaching Earth.
Making Sunsets co-founder, Luke Iseman, is relishing the criticism which he thinks is good for business.
“Making me look like the Bond villain is going to be helpful to certain groups,” Iseman, who had previously served as director of hardware for tech incubator Y Combinator, gloated to MIT Technology Review.
Due to the opaque world of privately funded Big Tech ventures, it is currently unclear how much money is actually being spent on private weather modification ideas.
The aim of one $3 million mission in 2021 – backed by billionaire Bill Gates – was to have chalk deflect a portion of the Sun’s radiation, stop it from hitting the surface, and cool the planet
SilverLining, a nonprofit dedicated to “near-term climate risk,” told Bloomberg that it was “unable to share a full list of SilverLining’s donors at this time.”
However, the organization lists major funders on its site.
Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and billionaire hotel heiress Rachel Pritzker are also known to be making big bets on such projects.
One 2020 study by a Yale lecturer, however, suggested that it would not take much to temporarily cut the Earth’s warming in half via SAI aerosol methods, suggesting that just $18 billion a year (half of NASA’s annual budget), would be enough.
In 2021, a roughly $3 million mission backed by Bill Gates, tested a similar system sending a large balloon 12 miles above the Swedish town of Kiruna with a payload of 2 kilograms of chalk dust bound for the stratosphere.
Like Iseman’s sulfate aerosols, the idea is for this chalk to deflect a portion of the sun’s radiation, stopping it from hitting the surface, and thus cooling the planet.
Chemist Frank Keutsch, whose Harvard lab led the project, says the strategy would only be deployed in desperation to stop parts of the planet becoming uninhabitable.
Keutsch called the very fact that such geoengineering projects are being considered at all “terrifying.”
However, the project’s critics have been even more unsparing.
University of Edinburgh professor, Stuart Haszeldine, noted at the time that blocking the Sun would do nothing to stop “global warming.”
“It would cool the planet by reflecting solar radiation but once you’re on to that, it’s like taking heroin — you’ve got to carry on doing the drug to keep on having the effect,” Haszeldine said.
This past April, after fielding years’ worth of such criticism, Harvard shut down the project.
It was scrapped despite continued interest by Keutsch and his collaborator, Harvard Applied Physics professor David Keith.
“I think it’s worth doing these experiments as the world considers whether or not to actually potentially use these technologies to reduce climate risks,” Keith said.
“This experiment just became the focus of that conversation and got blown out of proportion,” he told the Harvard Crimson.
A statement from two of Harvard’s provosts noted that similar “solar geoengineering research will continue at Harvard under the auspices of the Solar Geoengineering Research Program.”
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