{"id":1788475,"date":"2022-12-28T10:18:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T15:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1788475"},"modified":"2022-12-28T10:19:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T15:19:16","slug":"greenfinger-environmentalist-seeking-to-cool-planet-by-polluting-stratosphere-likened-to-bond-villain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/greenfinger-environmentalist-seeking-to-cool-planet-by-polluting-stratosphere-likened-to-bond-villain\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Greenfinger\u2019: An Environmentalist Wants To Cool The Planet By Polluting Stratosphere Similar to Bond Villain"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgreenfinger-environmentalist-seeking-to-cool-planet-by-polluting-stratosphere-likened-to-bond-villain%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1788475&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>An environmentalist runs a startup that is similar to a startup. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/bond-james-bond-he-him-future-007-could-be-non-binary-producer-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bond villain<\/a> To block sunlight and ease the weather, it intentionally pollutes the skies with sulfur. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-global-warming-protesters-vandalize-one-of-worlds-most-iconic-art-masterpieces\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">global warming<\/a>According to a top scientific journal.<\/p>\n<p>Make Sunsets was founded in California by Luke Iseman. The weather balloons release sulfur into the atmosphere to reflect more light back into space. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2022\/12\/24\/1066041\/a-startup-says-its-begun-releasing-particles-into-the-atmosphere-in-an-effort-to-tweak-the-climate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to MIT Technology Review<\/a>. But critics say the science behind Iseman\u2019s scheme, which he calls geoengineering activism, is flawed and could backfire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe joke slash not joke that this is partly a company and partly a cult,\u201d Iseman, who founded an earlier company. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxouse.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">now-defunct company called Boxouse<\/a> that made homes out of shipping containers,\u00a0told the journal.<\/p>\n<p>Critics worry that the project could lead to unanticipated consequences. This could cause significant upheaval or even death. \u201cgeopolitical conflicts\u201d The affected regions. The balloons will be launched from Mexico by the company, according to the publication. This is because it is not subject to serious scientific oversight. Make Sunsets wants to make the operation profitable by selling it. \u201ccooling credits,\u201d The report states that<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Start-up <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MakeSunsets?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MakeSunsets<\/a> In order to cool the Earth, we release reflective sulfur particles into the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>Each cooling credit is $10 and advertised as &#8216;offsetting 1 ton CO2 for a full year&#8217;. 1\/<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FdG9EbFiBu\">https:\/\/t.co\/FdG9EbFiBu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JunkScience\/status\/1607762139480997890?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Iseman stated that he expected to be tried and convicted. \u201cmaking me look like the Bond villain is going to be helpful to certain groups.\u201d He claimed that such drastic intervention was necessary to combat the danger of global warming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s morally wrong, in my opinion, for us not to be doing this [and] to do this as quickly and safely as we can,\u201d He stated.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists told the publication Iseman doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing, with one likening his effort to a Chinese scientist\u2019s decision to use CRISPR to edit embryonic DNA even as the ethics of such a step were being debated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe current state of science is not good enough \u2026 to either reject, or to accept, let alone implement\u201d Janos Pasztor is the executive director of solar geoengineering\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.c2g2.net\/c2g-mission\/\">Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative<\/a>, said to MIT Technology Review. \u201cTo go ahead with implementation at this stage is a very bad idea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iseman\u2019s radical scheme may have been foreshadowed by David Victor, an international relations expert at the University of California, San Diego, who warned in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/meet-the-amateur-scientist-who-discovered-climate-change\/\">2018 Wired article<\/a> A rogue actor could attempt to geoengineer climate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lone Greenfinger, self-appointed protector of the planet and working with a small fraction of the [Bill] Gates bank account, could force a lot of geoengineering on his own,\u201d Victor said this to refer to the villain from the 1964 James Bond movie \u201cGoldfinger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iseman stated that his first two balloon launches were in Baja California, Mexico. He acknowledged that he does not know the fate of the balloons or their effects, as they were launched without any monitoring equipment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was firmly in science project territory,\u201d He said: \u201cBasically, it was to confirm that I could do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He stated that Make Sunsets plans to increase sulfur payloads and add monitoring equipment. Data will also be published for future launches. The sale of $10 could fund the effort. \u201ccooling credits\u201d For every gram of particles that are released into the stratosphere. He claimed that each gram could offset a ton carbon.<\/p>\n<p>SilverLining&#8217;s executive director Kelly Wanser said that buying Iseman credits would be foolish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom a business perspective, reflective cooling effects and risks cannot currently be quantified in any meaningful way, making the offering a speculative form of \u2018junk credit\u2019 that is unlikely to have value to climate credit markets,\u201d Wanser spoke to MIT Technology Review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A startup run by an environmentalist likened to a Bond villain is intentionally polluting the skies with sulfur in a dubious bid to block sunlight and ease global warming, according to a top scientific journal. 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