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A Bill Gates Venture Aims To Spray Dust Into The Atmosphere To Block The Sun. What Could Go Wrong?
Microsoft’s MSFT +0.2% billionaire founder Bill Gates is financially backing the development of sun-dimming technology that would potentially reflect sunlight out of Earth’s atmosphere, triggering a global cooling effect. The Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx), launched by Harvard University scientists, aims to examine this solution by spraying non-toxic calcium carbonate (CaCO3) dust into the atmosphere — a sun-reflecting aerosol that may offset the effects of global warming.
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If we can't even agree to take the simple, basic steps to ameliorate global warming, ie cut carbon emissions, we should definitely not be doing this.
Agreed. If the feathered Velociraptor could talk (some can) they would explain why this is not a good idea.