Keutsch Group at Harvard, " SCoPEx," accessed Feb.
Harvard’s Solar Geoengineering Research Program, " Funding," accessed Feb. 21, 2022ĭavid Keith’s Research Group, " Fund for Innovative Climate and Energy Research," accessed Feb. The article shared in the Facebook post also falsely claims that the experiment will "kick off in June." The project originally was scheduled to have a test flight in Sweden in June 2021, but a Harvard advisory committee delayed it until at least 2022 in order to study potential impacts.ĭaily Star, " Bill Gates hatches 'horribly stupid' plan to block out the Sun - just like Mr Burns," Feb. Gates, who dropped out of Harvard in 1975 to co-found Microsoft, has provided funding to the university for climate research since 2007. Gates’ only connection to the research is through his donation to Harvard’s Solar Geoengineering Research Program, which is providing part of the funding for the project. The small-scale experiment is "to test the risks and efficacy" of solar radiation management, the researchers said, and to gather information that cannot be obtained through computer modeling and lab work.Īs Popular Mechanics noted, "(A)ll of the scientists and backers involved are only suggesting doing research- not taking large-scale action."
The proposed Harvard experiment would use a high-altitude balloon to lift instruments into the atmosphere and release aerosols. For one thing, the methods could have unintended consequences on global weather patterns. Already, about 30% of the sun’s energy is reflected back into space by clouds and ice, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental nonprofit group.īut solar geoengineering is controversial, even according to the Harvard researchers who proposed the experiment. The claim that solar geoengineering is an effort to "block out the sun" is inaccurate the technology is a riff on a naturally occurring process. The most commonly proposed method is to use aerosols - "the gaseous clouds formed by particles of many common materials" - because the physical structure of their particles blocks and scatters light, according to Popular Mechanics. Solar geoengineering involves using technology to try to reflect solar radiation back into space before it can interact with greenhouse gases. "One example is cloud seeding, where airplanes flush clouds with particulate matter in order to coalesce into rain." "Geoengineering is a blanket term for technologies that try to alter Earth’s physical qualities on the largest scale possible," Popular Mechanics reported. It’s called solar radiation management, or solar geoengineering. The falsehood centers on a small-scale experiment that Harvard researchers proposed - called SCoPEx, short for Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment - that would spray aerosols into the atmosphere to reflect some sunlight back into space, a technology aimed at minimizing global warming. The claim first surfaced in 2021 and has been previously debunked by multiple fact checkers. Gates did not personally hatch a plan, nor is he - or anyone - scheming to block out the sun. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) The article was shared on Facebook and was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. "Bill Gates hatches 'horribly stupid' plan to block out the sun," says the headline on a Feb. Now, a recycled claim says Gates’ aims go even higher - literally. Bill Gates has been falsely accused of many villainous plans, from depopulating the Earth to pushing microchips as part of all medical procedures.
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