UK To Greenlight Experiments To "Dim The Sun" In Bid To Stop Global Warming
It's a project reminiscent of the movie Snowpiercer, in which governments institute a global experiment to spray chemicals into the atmosphere to stop global warming and end up creating a new ice age instead. Once again reality is downstream from fiction as the UK is set to bankroll an experiment to 'dim the sun'. This goal will be pursued in field trials which could include injecting aerosols into the atmosphere, or brightening clouds to reflect sunshine.
The project is being considered by scientists as a way to prevent 'runaway climate change', despite the fact that there is zero evidence to support the claim of runaway climate change.
Aria, the Government's advanced research and invention funding agency, has set aside £50 million for projects, which will be announced in the coming weeks.
Prof Mark Symes, the program director for Aria (Advanced Research and Invention Agency), said there would be 'small controlled outdoor experiments on particular approaches'.
'We will be announcing who we have given funding to in a few weeks and when we do so we will be making clear when any outdoor experiments might be taking place,' he said.
'One of the missing pieces in this debate was physical data from the real world. Models can only tell us so much. Everything we do is going to be safe by design. We're absolutely committed to responsible research, including responsible outdoor research. We have strong requirements around the length of time experiments can run for and their reversibility and we won't be funding the release of any toxic substances to the environment.'
One major area of research is Sunlight Reflection Methods (SRM), which includes Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI) whereby tiny particles are released into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight. Another potential project is Marine Cloud Brightening (MCB) in which ships would spray sea-salt particles into the sky to enhance the reflectivity of low-lying clouds.
Climate scientists say efforts to reduce carbon emissions are not working fast enough and that levels are 'too high', leading to irregular weather patterns and eventually the temperature 'tipping point' in which an exponential crisis is created by heat creating carbon and then carbon creating more heat.
The problem is that nothing in this theory is backed by causational evidence or the climate history of the Earth. In other words, climate scientists are siphoning up government grant money to create solutions to a problem that doesn't exist.
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