UK government to fund geoengineering experiments to cool the Earth
RHODA WILSON
In September, the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (“ARIA”) announced a significant investment of £57 million to fund researchers examining ideas for artificially cooling the planet through small-scale outdoor geoengineering experiments. Proposals for funding real-world, outdoor experiments close in early December with successful projects that will receive funding being announced before July 2025.
ARIA, the UK’s answer to ARPA, is an innovation lab that was the brainchild of Dominic Cummings, the former No. 10 adviser to Boris Johnson. Armed with £800 million, it is tasked with pursuing scientific research to unlock “breakthroughs at the edge of the possible.”
According to The Telegraph, ARIA is “a nondescript office tucked in a corner of the British Library” with big ambitions with projects that include engineering the climate, replacing physical labour with robots and merging human brains with computers to turn us into cyborgs. It was established by an Act of Parliament in 2022 and is sponsored by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (“DSIT”). The Advanced Research and Invention Agency Act 2022 exempts the agency from coming under the scope of the Freedom of Information Act.
ARIA said it was pursuing geoengineering research because “even under the most aggressive scenarios” of cutting greenhouse gasses, it may not be possible to reduce those emissions fast enough to prevent dangerous increases in global temperatures.
Without conducting physical tests of those strategies, the agency said, “there is no prospect of being able to make proper judgments” about whether any type of geoengineering is “feasible, scalable, and controllable.”
The agency, which is publicly funded but has a degree of independence from the British government, is soliciting proposals to be submitted before 9 December from researchers around the world and expects to announce the recipients in the first half of next year.
“This programme,” ARIA’s website states, “will explore whether approaches designed to delay, or avert, climate tipping points could be feasible scalable, and safe.”
As you can see for yourself in the video below presented by Programme Director Mark Symes, they are completely immersed in the climate change crisis scam, or at least completely dedicated to propagating the false narrative surrounding it.
Symes is an electrochemist, with a 15-year career developing sustainable fuels in the drive towards “net zero.”
The rationale the UK government is giving is that it is pursuing geoengineering research due to the urgent need to address climate change. Even under aggressive greenhouse gas reduction scenarios, it may not be possible to reduce emissions quickly enough to prevent dangerous temperature increases. This research aims to provide a better understanding of the technology’s potential and risks.
ARIA’s Exploring Climate Cooling experiments will likely involve testing of technologies and methods such as weather modification techniques, geoengineering strategies and climate engineering technologies as it specifically rules out carbon dioxide removal and general weather/climate simulation or monitoring activities.
ARIA’s programme thesis also states that “large-scale trials of climate engineering technologies continuously or over extended durations” are out-of-scope for its research.
The programme thesis provides some examples, which are not exhaustive, of studies it will consider for its programme: marine cloud brightening, ice sheet thickening, space-based reflectors and cirrus cloud thinning. These are types of solar geoengineering which involve:
- Injecting aerosols, such as sulphur dioxide or other particles, into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight and cool the planet.
- Shooting sea-salt aerosols into low-lying marine clouds to reflect more sunlight away from the Earth.
- Installing satellites designed to change the amount of solar radiation impacting Earth. The idea is that space-based reflectors would orbit the Earth, reflecting sunlight towards specific locations on the planet, particularly towards solar farms during dawn and dusk when direct sunlight is scarce.
- Injecting ice-forming nuclei – such as bismuth triiodide or aerosols such as sulfuric or nitric acid – into the atmosphere at altitudes where cirrus clouds form.
The British effort was the latest in a string of funding announcements for geoengineering research, according to The New York Times.
Despite the potential benefits, experts worry about the technology’s unintended consequences, even at a small scale. Symes, director of ARIA’s solar geoengineering funding programme, acknowledges the challenges and controversies surrounding outdoor experiments.
Frank Keutsch, a geoengineering researcher at Harvard, said that as far as he knew, it was the first time that a government had called for proposals for outdoor experiments.
As The First Street Journal noted, “So, what happens if they test these, and actually mess up the climate? Because it is primarily driven by water vapour and the big nuclear furnace at the centre of the solar system [i.e. the Sun]. But, hey, it’s a wonderful way to burn taxpayer money for usually no results.”
Met Office Research
The Meteorological Office (“Met Office”), the UK’s national weather service, is also involved in geoengineering research. But it is, according to the Met Office, theoretical research using computer models to study the efficacy and potential impacts of geoengineering techniques on the climate system. Their work aims to inform policymakers on the merits and risks of geoengineering.
The Met Office distinguishes between weather modification and geoengineering: “Geoengineering is … those actions which attempt to curb the greatest impacts of climate change, while weather modification is usually taken to refer to those actions, such as cloud-seeding, to alter the weather in local areas across short time scales.” Both are considered by the Met Office to be forms of atmospheric modification.
“The Met Office does not recommend any atmospheric intervention that involves adding chemicals or substances to the atmosphere, such as injecting aerosols into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight back into space,” its website states. “The Met Office does not promote any atmospheric interventions.”
Why then is ARIA pushing ahead with its Exploring Climate Cooling project? We could speculate it’s simply a £57 million project to gaslight the public; to feign the chemtrail operations, that have been going on for years, aren’t happening.
Further reading:
- Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) puts out request for Geoengineering proposals, Secret Projects, 31 August 2024
- UK’s DARPA-inspired ARIA is exploring how to control the weather, geoengineer climate, Sociable, 23 December 2023
This article (UK government to fund geoengineering experiments to cool the Earth) was created and published by The Expose and is republished here under “Fair Use” with attribution to the author Rhoda Wilson
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