Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin I took action This week, to stop suspicious, if not dangerous: breathe in sunlight with air pollution and cool the planet.
Creating a sunset Private companies in South Dakota launch balloons containing sulfur dioxide particles into the stratosphere. Once the balloon reaches an appropriate altitude, the particles will burst and release. In the sky, these particles reflect sunlight, do not reach the Earth, and contribute to global warming. Or they argue. (Related: Steve Milroy: The Home Office should enforce Trump’s offshore wind ban)
Creating a Sunset business model is sellingCooling credits“It’s about $1 each. All cooling credits are supposed to counter the warming caused by a ton of carbon footprint. Buyers will receive an email informing them that the balloon burst has been successful. video Burst.
There are potential issues with what Sunsets is doing, and administrator Zeldin is rightly concerned about at least one of them. Sulfur dioxide particles are in the shape of Traditional air pollution. Their reflectivity is Temporary. They eventually fall to Earth and are likely caught in the rain. The balloon must be activated continuously to maintain or increase the claimed effect. Sounds like a great business model on paper.
However, sulfur dioxide particles were the major ones. Contributor In the middle of the 20thth The problem with the century, known as “acid rain,” is caused by the burning of high sulfur coal without chimney emission control. All rain is acidic, but the addition of sulfur dioxide greatly increases acidity. The 1950s Pittsburgh residents It has been reported A stinging sensation in the skin when raining. Under certain windless weather conditions known as temperature inversion, which traps and concentrates air pollution, sulfur dioxide particles were fatal to vulnerable people during major air pollution events of the 20th century.
The phenomenon of acid rain in the United States is Clean Air Act correction 1990. Electric power companies and other coal combustion facilities were needed to purchase air pollution control equipment or to stop burning large sulfur coal.
On the one hand, Make Sunsets is far from the kind of industrialisation that caused acid rain. Meanwhile, people don’t just fire potentially dangerous air pollutants into the sky without certain guidelines and monitoring.
Can we stop what is known as “global warming” in the sunset? We know that reflective particles in the sky can block sunlight from the historic volcanic eruptions. The Tambora eruption in 1815 is believed to have been in 1816.Summer-free years. “Most recently, the 1991 Pinatubo eruption It was caused Notable global cooling.
Last May, study Published in Nature 80% of the 2023-2024 “global warming spikes” were reported to be attributed to global transport that has shifted to clean (low sulfur) diesel oil. This study concluded that lower reflective emissions allow more sunlight to reach and warm the Earth.
The concept of changing the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth for climate control purposes is called “geoengineering.” Skeptics of the notion of catastrophic global warming do not believe it is necessary, cost-effective or controllable. Global warming activists don’t like geography engineering as they short-circumscribe the fundamental goal of moving forward on the left political agenda. And everyone needs to worry about the unknown and untested effects of random efforts to block the sun needed for life on Earth. A final note on attempts to learn how to manage weather by controlling sunlight is its weaponization potential. Imagine if China can control sunlight in the US.
Now, Make Sunsets is a small, innovative company that offers harmless anxiety relief to a relatively small number of gullible climate fretters. However, more serious players with deeper pockets and more serious intent are trying to get involved in a game that includes Climate Fretter Bill Gates and other leftist philanthropists. The Biden administration spent $22 million About the solar geo engineering project. It’s time for them to close these more serious efforts before they can set the sun on us all.
Steve Milloy is a biostatistician and lawyer, publishes Junkscience.com and is featured on X @junkscience.
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