Why Bill Gates is funding solar geoengineering research

The fires ravaging the Amazon rainforest have reignited the debate on solutions to climate change. Bill Gates supports the first high-altitude experiment in a radical approach called solar geoengineering. This is to imitate the effects of a giant volcanic eruption. Thousands of planes would fly at high altitudes, spraying millions of tons of particles around the planet to create a huge chemical cloud that would cool the surface.

/ "Modelling studies have shown that it could reduce the intensity of heat waves, for example, apparently it could reduce the rate of sea level rise. It could reduce the intensity of tropical storms," he said. said Andy Parker, project director at the Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative.

The technology is not far from ready and it is affordable, but it could cause massive changes in regional weather patterns and eradicate blue skies.

/ "These consequences could be horrific. They could involve things like massive famine, massive floods, droughts that will affect very large populations," said Stephen Gardiner, author of / "A Perfect Moral Storm: The Ethical Tragedy of climate change ./"

Watch the video to see how it would work and hear the debate around the ethics and effectiveness of solar geoengineering.

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Why Bill Gates is funding solar geoengineering research

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