The Biden Administration was apparently open to the idea of lowering the amount of sunlight the Earth receives in order to combat climate change, according to a White House report released on June 30.
The concept is a type of geoengineering known as solar radiation modification (SRM), a potentially dangerous idea that could require spraying the atmosphere with extra aerosols in order to reflect more sunlight away from the Earth.
The report says that the idea could have many negative impacts, such as altering global weather patterns, disrupting food supplies, affecting human health and biodiversity. The report even says that, if geoengineering intervention occurs and then is halted, the Earth’s temperature could abruptly rise and cause extreme warming.
Geoengineering and SRM have been very controversial concepts for decades and many experts over the years have expressed concerns about the potential consequences of implementing such projects.
Steve Milloy, climate expert and publisher of the website JunkScience.com, told CNS News that it’s crazy to think man can block out the sun, so the idea appears to be a ploy “to dramatize the climate hoax”:
“All life on Earth depends on sunlight. Why would anyone want to block it out, unless you were trying to eliminate life on Earth? Population control is a green goal. I don’t imagine that it's really possible to blot out the Sun or do it in any sort of controlled way. I think the purpose is just an effort to dramatize the climate hoax…. i.e., 'Climate change' is so bad, we need to block out the Sun. The whole idea is not needed, dangerous and just crazy.”
ClimateDepot.com Publisher Marc Morano voiced a similar take in an interview with Fox News, noting that proposals for blocking out the sun date back to the 1970s:
“This is retro 1970s. In the 1970s, they believed fossil fuels were creating aerosols blocking the sun, creating man-made global cooling. So they came up with the same kind of geo-engineering solutions back then. They wanted to put black soot on the Arctic to melt it. There was one proposal to use nuclear energy to loosen the Arctic ice caps because they thought they were growing too much.
“This is radical, risky, unproven, with unknown effects but they are doing it as a sort of lever over us. The Biden Administration is saying 'We know this is dangerous, we don't know the effects, but darn it, people aren't buying electric cars fast enough, or they aren't embracing the Green New Deal policies, so we have to risk our entire planet with this research.' ...The government will control the weather, and you will be happy. That seems to be the new motto."
Since 1978, the U.S. government has been banning aerosol-based products, though its reasoning for doing so has changed over time, from claiming fossil fuels were releasing aerosols to cool the Earth, then to saying in the 1990s that they hurt the ozone layer, making the Earth warmer.
Now, government “science” has flipped again, to wanting to increase the presence of aerosols in the atmosphere, in an attempt to purposely cool the Earth.
SRM geoengineering has made headlines in recent years, thanks to projects funded by liberal billionaires, such as Bill Gates and George Soros.