{"id":223929,"date":"2020-12-29T08:33:05","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T08:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=223929"},"modified":"2021-01-01T07:40:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T07:40:53","slug":"bill-gates-savior-complex-spirals-out-of-control-funds-sun-dimming-plan-to-save-the-human-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=223929","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates’ Savior Complex Spirals Out of Control, Funds Sun-Dimming Plan To Save the Human Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

C Douglas Golden \u2013 Western Journal Dec 27, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Bill Gates is now best known as a philanthropist, not the guy who started Microsoft or was the avatar for everyone\u2019s annoyance with Windows 95.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s also known for wanting to save us from ourselves.<\/p>\n

Now, apparently, he wants to save us from the sun.<\/p>\n

Gates, for those of you who don\u2019t follow these things, has been big on both vaccination and pandemic prevention. Fair enough. That certainly means his moment has arrived.<\/p>\n

However, he\u2019s about as much of a lockdown guy<\/a> as you can get \u2014 which is just fine if you\u2019re a billionaire who can afford to hide away as if this were Poe\u2019s<\/a> \u201cThe Masque of the Red Death,\u201d but the real-world consequences for the rest of us can be, ahem, problematic.<\/p>\n

However, while you may have been paying attention to his efforts on vaccination and lockdowns, you may not have noticed that one of Gates\u2019 most controversial causes just got a go-ahead: A project that would help block out the sun.<\/p>\n

This sounds a bit like the plot to \u201cHighlander 2: The Quickening,\u201d but it\u2019s nothing near that science fiction-y.<\/p>\n

According to Reuters<\/a>, a Harvard University project plans to test out a controversial theory that global warming can be stopped by spraying particles into the atmosphere that would reflect the sun\u2019s rays.<\/p>\n

The project represents one of the most controversial aspects of what\u2019s known as \u201cgeoengineering<\/a>\u201d \u2014 the idea that, to tackle issues like climate change, massive aspects of our ecosystem can be played with or changed. In this case, it would involve reflecting some of the sun\u2019s rays to stop them from reaching Earth.<\/p>\n

\u201cOpen-air research into spraying tiny, sun-reflecting particles into the stratosphere, to offset global warming, has been stalled for years by controversies \u2013 including that it could discourage needed cuts in greenhouse gas emissions,\u201d Reuters reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a small step, the Swedish Space Corporation agreed this week to help Harvard researchers launch a balloon near the Arctic town of Kiruna next June. It would carry a gondola with 600 kg of scientific equipment 20 km (12 miles) high.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Harvard team, whose project is known as SCoPEx, is funded in large part by Gates, according to an August report in the U.K. Daily Mail<\/a>. (Which gave the subject the wordy title: \u201cCould dimming the sun save the Earth? Bill Gates wants to spray millions of tonnes of dust into the stratosphere to stop global warming\u2026 but critics fear it could trigger calamity\u201d)<\/p>\n

The journal Nature<\/a> was less judgmental.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea is simple: spray a bunch of particles into the stratosphere, and they will cool the planet by reflecting some of the Sun\u2019s rays back into space. Scientists have already witnessed the principle in action,\u201d Nature already reported in 2018. (Headline: \u201cFirst sun-dimming experiment will test a way to cool Earth\u201d)<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Mount Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines in 1991, it injected an estimated 20 million tonnes of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere \u2014 the atmospheric layer that stretches from about 10 to 50 kilometres above Earth\u2019s surface. The eruption created a haze of sulfate particles that cooled the planet by around 0.5\u2009\u00b0C. For about 18 months, Earth\u2019s average temperature returned to what it was before the arrival of the steam engine.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are several problems with this plan, not the least of which is that we don\u2019t know what the unintended consequences might be. But to environmentalists, the problem is that it doesn\u2019t solve global warming the way\u00a0they want to do it<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no merit in this test except to enable the next step. You can\u2019t test the trigger of a bomb and say \u2018This can\u2019t possibly do any harm,’\u201d said Niclas H\u00e4llstr\u00f6m, director of the Sweden-based environmentalist think-tank WhatNext?<\/p>\n

And while H\u00e4llstr\u00f6m is worried about some of the same things that other people are \u2014 the potential to change rain patterns or crop yields \u2014 he\u2019s also concerned that people aren\u2019t concerned enough about the solution he wants, which is a transition to a zero-carbon society.<\/p>\n

\u201cSwedish society is increasingly calling for real, immediate solutions to climate change,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Right.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s not the only one, either.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is as much an experiment in changing social norms and crossing a line as it is a science experiment,\u201d said Jim Thomas, co-executive director of Canadian-based environmentalist organization ETC Group, which opposes the idea.<\/p>\n

But then again, Gates lives in this dream world where his advice on pandemics and global warming<\/a> is given equal weight as his time developing Windows.<\/p>\n

When it comes to the pandemic, Gates has said that he expects businesses and restaurants to remain shuttered for some time.<\/p>\n

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.@BillGates<\/a> on Covid: "Even through 2022\u201d we should be prepared for life to not return to \u201cnormal\u201d <\/p>\n

Says \u201csadly" it\u2019s "appropriate\u201d for bars and restaurants to close over the next "four to six months" pic.twitter.com\/cmDD8pv3XR<\/a><\/p>\n

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) December 13, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n