Elites continue efforts to block sun despite warnings from scientists

Wealthy elites and academics are forging ahead with efforts to block out the sun despite opposition from scientists and officials.

Solar geoengineering carries risks, scientists warn

Climate alarmists have been researching ways to change the Earth’s temperature by reducing the Sun’s rays, a method called solar geoengineering. The United States and European governments, along with organizations like the World Economic Forum (WEF), have been exploring strategies like solar radiation modification (SRM), which involves planes shooting aerosols into the atmosphere to divert the Sun’s rays.

In 2022, hundreds of scientists and academics signed a letter calling for an “international non-use agreement on solar geoengineering.”

“The risks of solar geoengineering are poorly understood and can never be fully known,” the letter said. “Impacts will vary across regions, and there are uncertainties about the effects on weather patterns, agriculture, and the provision of basic needs of food and water.” 

Failed experiments

Nevertheless, attempts to experiment with solar engineering have been forging ahead with the backing of wealthy financiers. Those include the Pritzker family, which owns the Hyatt Hotels Corporation and remains one of America’s top ten richest families. 

The Pritzker fortune heavily funds Leftist causes such as gender ideology and the climate agenda. The Pritzker Innovation Fund, for example, was one of the sponsors of a recently canceled solar engineering experiment in Alameda, California. The experiment, planned by University of Washington researchers, aimed to alter clouds by spraying aerosols from an aircraft carrier in the San Francisco Bay. 

Local officials shut down the experiment 20 minutes in, in part due to concerns about weather interruptions and “unintended consequences.” They have since rejected a request from the University of Washington to restart the study, according to Politico.

A similar experiment led by Harvard University was also recently shut down in Sweden.

Billionaires defiant

Climate financiers and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), however, have vowed to continue their efforts to block the Sun’s rays.

“The Pritzker Innovation Fund believes in the importance of research that helps improve climate models and enables policymakers and the public to better understand whether climate interventions like marine cloud brightening are feasible and advisable,” said Pritzker Innovation Fund Chair Rachel Pritzker. “We will only get answers to these questions through open research that can inform science-based, democratic decision-making.”

Greg De Temmerman, the chief science and programs officer for the Quadrature Climate Foundation, also promised the foundation will continue to support solar geoengineering efforts.

“We remain firmly committed to advancing transparent, equitable, and science-based approaches to understand and potentially mitigate climate risks,” De Temmerman said. The foundation recently pledged $40 million towards solar engineering.

Other backers of solar geoengineering research include SilverLining NGO, SRI International, and billionaire Chris Larsen's Larsen Lam Climate Change Foundation.

Parasols or aerosols

Another method of solar geoengineering is using balloons or umbrellas to block the Sun’s rays. In February, a group of scientists from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology said they may have discovered how.

Dr. Yoram Rozen, director of the university's Asher Space Research Institute, told the New York Times that a number of smaller solar shields may be used to block the Sun, thereby diffusing sunlight and "shading" the Earth. 

Rozen and his team are creating a 100-foot prototype, which will cost between $10 and $20 million to construct. After they get the required funds, they can build one in three years. Trillions of dollars would be needed to construct the necessary number of shades, a cost Rozen plans to share among various nations.

Climate requires human sacrifice

But even if the Sun is successfully blocked, the New York Times points out that this would not free humanity from making significant sacrifices in the name of climate change. All fossil fuels, including coal, gas, and oil, would still need to be eliminated according to climate activists. In fact, due to "excessive heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere," people would still need to make lifestyle sacrifices even if climate change were resolved and global warming were stopped in its tracks, they say.

In a 44-page report last year, the White House acknowledged the dangers that would come from blotting out the sun, such as a decline in human health and disrupted food supplies. The government added, however, that those dangers must be weighed against what the claimed hazards of climate change.

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