Controversial Bill Gates-funded plan to dim the sun’s rays moves forward quietly https://t.co/rOVxtVfHmT
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) December 28, 2020
Microsoft CEO Bill Gates has a plan to block out the sun, and it is “quietly” moving forward.
The geo-engineering plan, which is a Harvard University project largely funded by Gates, “plans to test out a controversial theory that global warming can be stopped by spraying particles into the atmosphere that would reflect the sun’s rays.”
Reuters reports the Swedish Space Corporation has already taken strides in testing the theory out.
“Open-air research into spraying tiny, sun-reflecting particles into the stratosphere, to offset global warming, has been stalled for years by controversies — including that it could discharge needed cuts in greenhouse gas emissions,” Reuters says. “In a small step, the Swedish Space Corporation agreed this week to help Harvard researchers launch a balloon near the Arctic town of Kiruna next June. It would carry a gondola with 600 kg of scientific equipment 20 km (12 miles) high.”
“The idea is simple: spray a bunch of particles into the stratosphere, and they will cool the planet by reflecting some of the Sun’s rays back into space,” Nature’s Jeff Tollefson wrote in 2018. “Scientists have already witnessed the principle in action.”
The plan could move forward in the fall of 2021 or spring of 2022 and would “release a tiny amount … of non-toxic calcium carbonate dust into the atmosphere” to test the theory, Reuters says.
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