Secretive Solar Geoengineering Test in San Francisco Bay

Unbeknownst to most people, including the people who

are actually living in the

area, scientists have begun to conduct a secret

experiment which

involves shooting aerosols up into the sky in the hope

of preventing global warming. Specifically, this is a solar

geoengineering experiment right outside of San Francisco that's trying

to create brighter clouds that would, in theory at least,

reflect more sunlight away from the Earth.

Here's how the experiment was described four days ago in the pages

of Scientific

American. Quote, "The nation's first outdoor test to limit

global

warming by increasing cloud cover launched Tuesday from the deck of a

decommissioned aircraft carrier in the San Francisco Bay.

The experiment, which organizers did not widely announce

to avoid public

backlash, marks the acceleration of a contentious

field of research

known as solar radiation modification.

The concept involves shooting substances such as aerosols into the sky to

reflect sunlight away from the Earth." Now, it really is worth highlighting

that this plan was not kept secret by accident.

It wasn't that people just did not notice the flyers or

they didn't hear the public service announcements or the social media posts.

Instead, the researchers behind this experiment

were intentionally keeping the

local public in the dark in order to stave off criticism.

And the reason we know this is because these researchers,

they gave The New York

Times exclusive access to cover the initial firing of the

spray cannons from the ship. And in their report,

here's what The New York Times

wrote. Quote, "The idea of interfering with nature is so

contentious that organizers of Tuesday's test kept the details

tightly held, concerned that critics would try to stop them."

Nothing breeds

public confidence more than changing the weather without

telling anyone. Regardless, to give you a bit of the specifics,

this plan

of theirs involves spraying trillions of microscopic salt particles up into the

air in an attempt to make clouds more dense.

This will, at least in theory, reflect more of the sun's light away from

the Earth.

Quote, "The Coastal Atmospheric Aerosol Research

and Engagement,

or CARE Project, is using specially built sprayers to shoot

trillions of sea salt particles into the sky in an effort to increase the

density and reflective capacity of marine clouds." Now, this

secretive experiment is being led by researchers affiliated

with the University of

Washington, and the official name for this project,

as was mentioned in this

article right here, is the Coastal Atmospheric Aerosol

Research

and Engagement Project, otherwise known as CARE.

And so with this compassionate-sounding name, alongside the

fact that these researchers didn't bother to announce their plan to the

public in order to avoid backlash, well, I'm sure

that there's nothing to worry about.

Although it is really worth mentioning that even among the

scientists who think that this is a good idea, there's no

consensus that changing the weather like this will not have unintended

consequences. Quote, "Solar radiation modification is

controversial because widespread use of technologies like marine cloud

brightening could alter weather patterns in unclear ways and potentially limit

the productivity of fisheries and farms.

It could also lead to a catastrophic spike in global temperatures if major

geoengineering activities were discontinued before greenhouse gases

decrease to manageable levels." And by the way, it's worth mentioning

that this

plan did not come out of nowhere. For many years, Bill Gates, through his

foundation, has been funding this type of research.

And also two years ago, Joe Biden signed a measure into law

which directed the

Office of Science and Technology Policy to work alongside

NASA on researching

climate intervention. Quote, "An article in MIT Technology Review

reports

the crux of the federal plan is to release tiny particles into the

atmosphere

that theoretically could reflect enough sunlight to slow down the Earth's

warming."

That is, again, at the federal level.

Getting back to this California plan, though, initially, phase one of the plan

is to release these microscopic particles atop the USS Hornet Sea and Air Space

Museum over in Alameda, California, right there in the San Francisco Bay.

This phase will go until the end of May.

Afterwards, phase two will involve shooting these

particles on a pier

about a mile offshore in a coastal environment.

Then, if phase one and phase two prove successful, well,

perhaps the

next phase of this geoengineering scheme will be done right in your own backyard.