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Venture capitalists, startup founders and tech executives are funding studies, experiments and small deployments of controversial technology that could cool the planet.
By Sophie Alexander
October 25, 2024 at 1:00 PM UTC
When back-to-back hurricanes made landfall in Florida this fall, conspiracy theories followed. Among the unfounded claims circulating on social media was the idea that the US government had effective control of the weather, spinning up storms to strike areas based on political affiliation. While that’s not true, there are people working in semi-secret on technology to tweak the weather, even if they’re nowhere close to controlling hurricanes.
A growing number of Silicon Valley founders and investors are backing research into blocking the sun by spraying reflective particles high in the atmosphere or making clouds brighter. The goal is to quickly cool the planet.
A couple of startups are already trying to deploy this untested technology or betting governments will eventually use it, while a cluster of Bay Area nonprofits are backing research into its planetary impact. With the world hotter than at any point in human history and emissions showing no sign of falling, the pitch is that dimming the sun is a relatively cheap way to turn the heat down.
“To get started it only takes one person to say, ‘I have 100 million quid, I have a business jet, let’s go,’” said Andrew Lockley, a UK-based independent researcher in the field scientists call geoengineering. “History will judge whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing.”

“History will judge whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing” .....Oh, but let's just fuck with the weather because we can.
Curiously absent: Billionaires building global circumnavigating bullet train.
When:
The Earth's rotation changes.
Celestial pole nutation expands.
Oceans grow hotter in a matter of weeks.
Geomagnetic pole weakens and wanders.
The Shumann Resonance ("earths heartbeat") ranges are high.
Ice shelves melt from the bottom up.
That's all shit man can't do a damn thing about, much less get taxed out the ass for, but by and by they will try to lobby for the grift.