DailyKenn.com — In case you haven't heard, billionaire Bill Gates is blacking a scheme to dim the sun in an effort to decrease global warming. The plan is to release chalk particles into the atmosphere, reports say.
According to Popular Mechanics, "Gates and other private donors are backing Harvard University’s Solar Geoengineering Research Program, which will soon launch a new study researching the efficacy of blocking sunlight from reaching Earth’s surface."
The project is in its study phase.
Geoengineering is literally man-made climate change, the very thing that environmentalism has long opposed as harmful. That's ironic.
Who knows? Maybe the scheme will have a positive impact. Considering the human propensity for inadvertent flaws in their innovations (Fukushima disaster, for example) we wonder if tinkering with the atmosphere could have science-fiction-movie-like consequences.
Excerpted from Popular Mechanics ▼
The researchers behind the forthcoming Harvard project, the Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx), say we must study solar geoengineering in case we need to take a drastic action against climate change. The Gates-supported study seeks to do exploratory, small-scale experiments in the atmosphere:
“We plan to use a high-altitude balloon to lift an instrument package approximately 20 km into the atmosphere. Once it is in place, a very small amount of material (100 g to 2 kg) will be released to create a perturbed air mass roughly one kilometer long and one hundred meters in diameter. We will then use the same balloon to measure resulting changes in the perturbed air mass including changes in aerosol density, atmospheric chemistry, and light scattering. [W]e plan to release calcium carbonate, a common mineral dust. We may also release other materials such as sulfates in response to evolving scientific interests.”
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