‘Geoengineering’ scam

The scientists who are really investigating ‘climate engineering’ techniques unanimously condemned the rogue behaviour of a startup that pumped a few grams of sulfur dioxide into a weather balloon at a secret launch site, and then freed the balloon to rise into the stratosphere, where it presumably ruptured and released the SO2.

The revelations by fly-by-night startup Make Sunsets that its weather balloons presumably released sulfur particles into the sky in an effort to offset the warming effects of carbon dioxide were pure provocation without a scintilla of science, writes Gwynne Dyer.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

January 5, 2023

LONDON, U.K.—It was the moral equivalent of a fart in a hurricane.

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