Saturday 09/November/2024 – 10:38 PM
Microsoft founder Bill Gates is trying to fund a project that would help reverse global warming. One of the new startups funded by venture capital, called Make Sunsets, has already launched balloons over Baja, Mexico, that release sunlight-reflecting particles into the Earth’s stratosphere.
A project that contributes to reversing global warming
According to the British Daily Mail, the company’s concept of cooling the Earth by returning sunlight to space via sulfur aerosols is not new. In fact, it is one of many strange ideas now being funded by Microsoft founder Bill Gates, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and others. In major technology companies.
However, the startup’s solar geoengineering project, which it hopes to fund by selling cooling credits to green companies, has come under fire from experts.
Researchers across academia, government, and even global insurance agencies have warned of unintended consequences, such as regional drought, crop failures, and shifts into the Atlantic jet stream, which could drag hurricanes and tropical diseases northward.
Risks of reversing global warming
Last year, Mexico’s Environment Ministry criticized Make Sunsets for conducting rogue experiments within its country’s borders without prior notice and without approval from the Mexican government and surrounding communities.
But many of these concerns stem from the idea that small, independent companies like Make Sunsets may be able to work together, or be effective at all.
Efforts to reduce global temperatures, at least at present, are nowhere near the scale needed to cause global temperatures to fall significantly, said Adrian Hinds, a doctoral candidate at the Australian National University.
However, the startup has already raised more than $1 million from billionaire technocrats looking for quick, market-based solutions to the climate crisis. But although such large-scale aerial pollination techniques may succeed in cooling the Earth, the process will still leave behind increasing amounts of energy. Constant carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere.
