Geoengineering: Startup Company Says It’s Already Begun Releasing Particles Into Atmosphere

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This is no joke operation. The co-founder and CEO of Make Sunsets is Luke Iseman, formerly director of hardware at thoroughly Technocratic-run Y-Combinator. Who gives a private company the right to alter the atmosphere for the planet? Answer: No One. ⁃ TN Editor

A startup claims it has launched weather balloons that may have released reflective sulfur particles in the stratosphere, potentially crossing a controversial barrier in the field of solar geoengineering.

Geoengineering refers to deliberate efforts to manipulate the climate by reflecting more sunlight back into space, mimicking a natural process that occurs in the aftermath of large volcanic eruptions. In theory, spraying sulfur and similar particles in sufficient quantities could potentially ease global warming.

It’s not technically difficult to release such compounds into the stratosphere. But scientists have mostly (though not entirely) refrained from carrying out even small-scale outdoor experiments. And it’s not clear that any have yet injected materials into that specific layer of the atmosphere in the context of geoengineering-related research.

That’s in part because it’s highly controversial. Little is known about the real-world effect of such deliberate interventions at large scales, but they could have dangerous side effects. The impacts could also be worse in some regions than others, which could provoke geopolitical conflicts.

Some researchers who have long studied the technology are deeply troubled that the company, Make Sunsets, appears to have moved forward with launches from a site in Mexico without any public engagement or scientific scrutiny. It’s already attempting to sell “cooling credits” for future balloon flights that could carry larger payloads.

Several researchers MIT Technology Review spoke with condemned the effort to commercialize geoengineering at this early stage. Some potential investors and customers who have reviewed the company’s proposals say that it’s not a serious scientific effort or a credible business but more of an attention grab designed to stir up controversy in the field.

Luke Iseman, the cofounder and CEO of Make Sunsets, acknowledges that the effort is part entrepreneurial and part provocation, an act of geoengineering activism.

He hopes that by moving ahead in the controversial space, the startup will help drive the public debate and push forward a scientific field that has faced great difficulty carrying out small-scale field experiments amid criticism.

“We joke slash not joke that this is partly a company and partly a cult,” he says.

Iseman, previously a director of hardware at Y Combinator, says he expects to be pilloried by both geoengineering critics and researchers in the field for taking such a step, and he recognizes that “making me look like the Bond villain is going to be helpful to certain groups.” But he says climate change is such a grave threat, and the world has moved so slowly to address the underlying problem, that more radical interventions are now required.

“It’s morally wrong, in my opinion, for us not to be doing this,” he says. What’s important is “to do this as quickly and safely as we can.”

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Patrick Wood
Patrick Wood is a leading and critical expert on Sustainable Development, Green Economy, Agenda 21, 2030 Agenda and historic Technocracy. He is the author of Technocracy Rising: The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation (2015) and co-author of Trilaterals Over Washington, Volumes I and II (1978-1980) with the late Antony C. Sutton.
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Darrien

The author of this article needs to get out of the office and look up more often.

Lydia Smans

Dane Wigington has a website with all info on geoengeneering…
( patents sinds WW2 )
( docu : the dimming )

https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/

marie

i like him…dane

marie

my ex sent me this article last wk. tbh im still debatin on a video cause ppl should b able to see the nonsense in front of us

Suss

What a tool! JACK ASS! I cant stand these glib idiots!

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davejr

And yet, if you’re not burning more expensive low sulfur diesel in your vehicle, you can earn a $20,000 fine per incident. So on a ppm basis, lets calculate the fine for Iseman instead of “cooling credits”.

Gordon

We’re thinking about doing that…as if we haven’t been doing it for DECADES.

Greg

“But he says climate change is such a grave threat, and the world has moved so slowly to address the underlying problem, that more radical interventions are now required.” As someone has commented below … and I couldn’t have said it better .. “What a Jackass”. Either this clown is just a cynical grifter. hoping in some way to cash in, or he’s yet one more idiot refusing to see that there is no evidence to support the idea of a ‘grave threat’. The slight warming we’re experiencing is simply natural variation of the climate due to solar activity and… Read more »

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Diane Di

The following video has pretty much been scrubbed from the internet. This was originally aired in 2013.GEOENGINEERING: STEPHEN COLBERT INTERVIEWS DAVID KEITHInteresting that David Keith admits that it could kill people, in fact they truly don’t know the ramifications. The maniacs have control of the cockpit it seems.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/fAoSusswQq5Q/

Diane Di

Agreement Between Canada and the United States of America Relating to the Exchange of Information on Weather Modification Activities https://www.treaty-accord.gc.ca/text-texte.aspx?id=103819&fbclid=IwAR0X8WLY-1rpXBYOT_qJnxoG9keHD80RXO07BIsVJ815qvAw-dXLGLkKisA

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