This Climate Startup’s Rogue Plan to Manipulate the Weather is Horrifying Scientists

Dec 25 2022 by The Daily Beast

 
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A startup founded in October says it has launched weather balloons containing particles of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere in an attempt to artificially manipulate the climate.

Make Sunsets co-founder and CEO Luke Iseman told MIT Technology Review that he expects critics will portray him “like the Bond villain” for what the site called “geoengineering activism.” Meanwhile, the White House is funding its own five-year research plan into...

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