A company called Make Sunsets has begun to quietly release chemicals into the earth’s atmosphere in an attempt to cooldown the planet’s temperature, in a process that basically emulates what happens when volcanic ash is launched into the sky after an eruption. Now scientists are speaking out against the projects.
The company was reportedly founded in October of this year according to their website, saying they are funded by “Boost VC, Pioneer Fund, and other friends.”
We make reflective, high-altitude, biodegradable clouds that cool the planet. Mimicking natural processes, our “shiny clouds” are going to prevent catastrophic global warming.
Specifically: we release a natural compound via reusable balloons to create reflective clouds in the stratosphere. They’re *really* effective: 1 gram of our clouds offsets the warming that 1 ton of CO₂ emissions creates for a year. After three years, our clouds compost and settle back to Earth.
Because we deliver our clouds via reusable balloons, we’re able to offset CO₂ at <1% of the cost of other solutions. Uniquely, we can also scale to offset *all* of global warming.
We can offset warming from all global annual CO₂ emissions with ~$30 million of our clouds, and every $1 billion of our clouds will cool the world by ~0.1°F!
Sounds like sci-fi? It’s not: we’ve already launched our first clouds, and we’ll offset a substantial amount of warming in 2023!
The company says on their ‘about’ page
Such a process has caused some scientists to pushback such a move, with MIT Technology Review even noting that this venture “could have dangerous side effects” – effects that “could also be worse in some regions than others, which could provoke geopolitical conflicts.”
MIT says that some of the investors they have spoken with say the company’s efforts are not quite as serious as one may think and is not even a real company to invest, but rather just an attention grabber trying to “stir up controversy,” MIT reports.
Luke Iseman, the cofounder and CEO of Make Sunsets, basically admitted to this when questioned, though still hopes that his company can generate enough buzz that more of this gets discussed and experiments can continue.
We joke slash not joke that this is partly a company and partly a cult.
It’s morally wrong, in my opinion, for us not to be doing this. [What’s important is “to do this as quickly and safely as we can].
What I want to do is create as much cooling as quickly as I responsibly can, over the rest of my life, frankly.
We are convinced solar [geoengineeering] is the only feasible path to staying below 2 ˚C [of warming over preindustrial levels], and we will work with the scientific community to deploy this life-saving tool as safely and quickly as possible.
Iseman says, adding later that they will deploy as much sulfur in 2023 as “we can get customers to pay us” for.
Needless to say, scientists are not happy about this and are quite cautious about this, warning that this could lead to even more public ire and set the scientific community back even further than it already has been.
For exzmples, Janos Pasztor, executive director of the Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative, wrote in an email:
The current state of science is not good enough … to either reject, or to accept, let alone implement [solar geoengineering]. To go ahead with implementation at this stage is a very bad idea.
MIT goes on to cite other scientists and critics who are not fond of these rogue experiments.
What they’re claiming to actually accomplish with such a credit is the entirety of what’s uncertain right now about geoengineering.
They’re violating the rights of communities to dictate their own future.
Shuchi Talati, a scholar in residence at American University who is forming a nonprofit focused on governance and justice in solar geoengineering, said
As for Make Sunsets’ previous experiments, MIT writes:
By Iseman’s own description, the first two balloon launches were very rudimentary. He says they occurred in April somewhere in the state of Baja California, months before Make Sunsets was incorporated in October. Iseman says he pumped a few grams of sulfur dioxide into weather balloons and added what he estimated would be the right amount of helium to carry them into the stratosphere.
He expected they would burst under pressure at that altitude and release the particles. But it’s not clear whether that happened, where the balloons ended up, or what impact the particles had, because there was no monitoring equipment on board the balloons. Iseman also acknowledges that they did not seek any approvals from government authorities or scientific agencies, in Mexico or elsewhere, before the first two launches.
In future work, Make Sunsets hopes to increase the sulfur payloads, add telemetry equipment and other sensors, eventually move to reusable balloons, and publish data following the launches.
The company is already attempting to earn revenue from the cooling effects of future flights. It is offering to sell $10 “cooling credits” for releasing one gram of particles in the stratosphere—enough, it asserts, to offset the warming effect of one ton of carbon for one year.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
[16] Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself? [17] Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time? Ecclesiastes 7:16-17
These people are just so utterly psychotic and evil, that they have convinced themselves that they are some sort of superhero doing some noble deed in secret for the “benefit” of us all.
But the White House has already openly admitted that they are funding this type of research. So when Make Sunsets says “other friends” are investing, perhaps it is the U.S. government? Time will tell.
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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Numbskulls, unless they live in a different planet, this will affect them too.