It was budgeted, so it must be done.

In October, the White House Office of Science and Technology began the implementation of a plan to support research into climate "interventions", involving engineering on a planetary scale to counteract the heating effect of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases by spraying "stuff" into the atmosphere.

It's called Solar Radiation Management or SRM.



Make Sunsets is a venture capital-backed U.S. startup that says it's already testing an idea.

quote Make Sunsets, backed by two venture capital funds, launched in October. It claims to have already run two internal test flights for its plan to inject sulphur via balloons into the stratosphere, more than 20km above the Earth’s surface. The venture, named after the deep red sunsets that would occur if particles were seeded into the stratosphere, says its “shiny clouds” will “prevent catastrophic global warming” and help save millions of lives. “Any human-caused release of carbon dioxide is geoengineering,” it argues on its website, which asks people to buy “cooling credits” to fund its work. “We screwed up the atmosphere, and now we have a moral obligation to fix things!” Edward Parson, an expert in environmental law at University of California, Los Angeles, says Make Sunsets’ claims that it could return the world to its pre-industrial temperature for just $50bn a year are “absurd”. He explains that most researchers are wary of deploying what they consider to be a desperate, last-ditch option. But Parson says the risks in researching solar geoengineering have been overblown and that the US “is probably the bold leader on this. It would be a big step forward if we have a research program.”

"Can geoengineering fix the climate?"
Oliver Milman for the Guardian; December 25, 2022.
https://www.theguardian.com...g-fix-climate-crisis

"The U.S. May Research Dimming the Sun as a Climate Solution"
Ananya Singh for the Swaddle; November 29, 2022.
https://theswaddle.com/the-...n-whats-the-fallout/

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quote The idea of recalibrating the world’s climate to deal with heat-trapping emissions isn’t new. A group of scientific advisers to [President] Johnson cautioned the US president about global heating in 1965, musing that “deliberately bringing about countervailing climatic changes therefore need to be thoroughly explored”. Calls for [climate] intervention have grown in recent years as countries continue to dawdle over emissions cuts and as an internationally agreed limit of 1.5C of global heating over pre-industrial times [teeters on the edge of likely failure.]

"It's like my trademark 'aviator' sunglasses for the Earth."

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quote Originally posted by rinselberg: "It's like my trademark 'aviator' sunglasses for the Earth."

Those are not sunglasses.

They are to hide his beady eyes. They double to hide his dazed and confused look.



Do you wear sunglasses inside ?

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