Perspective: Climate mitigationBill Gates Is Funding a Chemical Cloud That Could Put an End to Global Warming

Published 9 September 2019

Whether you agree or not, global warming is happening. As reported by the minds at NASA, human activity continues to exacerbate the problem. Currently, there is more carbon dioxide in our atmosphere than in all of human history. Two-thirds of extreme weather events from the past 20 years can be tied back to human activity, while both our summers and winters are getting much warmer. Bill Gates is currently backing a potential solution to global warming that centers around the technology of solar geoengineering.

Whether you agree or not, global warming is happening. As reported by the minds at NASA, human activity continues to exacerbate the problem. Currently, there is more carbon dioxide in our atmosphere than in all of human history. Two-thirds of extreme weather events from the past 20 years can be tied back to human activity, while both our summers and winters are getting much warmer.

Nevertheless, not all hope is lost. Donovan Alexander writes in Interesting Engineering that leaders, and companies from across the world are working hard to combat climate change. One of the most recent examples of this can be tied back to the enigmatic Bill Gates. Bill Gates is currently backing a potential solution to global warming that centers around the technology of solar geoengineering.

“Now you might be scratching your head a bit as solar geoengineering sounds like a plot point from a disaster movie,” Alexander writes. “However, it is both a radical but potentially effective means of stopping global warming. For the uninitiated, this technology would go on to mimic the effects of a massive volcanic eruption.”

Andy Parker, project director at the Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative, told CNBC, “Modeling studies have found that it could reduce the intensity of heatwaves, for instance, apparently it could reduce the rate of sea-level rise. It could reduce the intensity of tropical storms.”