Sweden’s space agency has canceled this Wednesday, which aims to curb global warming by dimming sunlight reaching Earth. This is an experiment that is funded in part by Bill Gates.
The Reuters news agency reports that this ban comes under pressure from environmental groups and the leaders of Sweden’s indigenous Saami reindeer herders wrote to the space agency opposing the test. Thus, Åsa Larsson Blind, vice-president of the Saami Council, said in a statement that such technological arrangements were “completely against what we have to do now: transform zero-carbon societies in harmony with nature.”
What is the SCoPEx project financed by Bill Gates?
Blocking the sun is a simpler way of explaining the objective sought by SCoPEx, a project led by Harvard University (USA) that seeks to study global warming by blocking part of the effect of the Sun’s rays. a measured amount of calcium carbonate into the atmosphere. In fact, the actual name of the project is ‘Controlled Stratosphere Disturbance Experiment’.
The goal of this project is to advance knowledge of solar geoengineering, a field of science whose goal is to reflect a fraction of sunlight back into space or increase the amount of solar radiation that escapes the atmosphere. A goal whose ultimate goal is to lower the temperature of the planet and, therefore, combat the effects of global warming.
Despite the futuristic nature of this project, it builds on more than forty years of research on the environmental chemistry of the ozone layer by three Harvard teams. Thus, this scientific experiment also seeks to improve the analysis capacity to predict how the new field could alter the stratospheric ozone.
What will happen to the project SCoPEx financed by Bill Gates
David Keith, a member of the SCoPEx project and a professor of applied physics at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, told Reuters that Sweden’s decision was a setback. However, they will try in the coming months to win over Sweden’s opinion and build support for an eventual trial.
However, if the blockade is definitive in Sweden, David Keith has explained to the agency that the test could be moved to the United States, although it would probably not be carried out until next year. Some scientists and experts believe that this type of technology may be needed if runaway climate change brings unmanageable threats, and that continued research keeps options open.
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