Posted on 12/20/2020 11:25:09 AM PST by BenLurkin
The flight, which requires approval from a Harvard project advisory committee, will test how to manoeuvre the balloon and check communications equipment and other systems. It would not release any particles into the stratosphere.
Still, if successful, it could be a step towards an experiment, perhaps in the autumn of 2021 or spring of 2022, to release a tiny amount – up to 2 kg - of non-toxic calcium carbonate dust into the atmosphere, Keith said.
Studying that material's effects on high-altitude sunlight could help advance understand of how solar geoengineering might work.
But opponents see the Swedish balloon as a step on a slippery slope towards engineering the climate with an artificial sunshade - something with potentially large and hard-to-predict risks, such as shifts in global rain patterns.
Officials of the Harvard project, the Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx), said they did not believe it needed any special approval from Sweden for the flight.
SCoPEx said about 300 similar stratospheric balloons were launched worldwide in 2019. Backers of SCoPEx include Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
Anni Bolenius, spokeswoman for the Swedish Space Corporation, also said "We comply with all applicable international and national legislations."
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At least the proposal I’d mentioned on FR (for years), were reversible!
A huge silvered mylar net to reflect sun’s heating rays was to circle between Earth and Sun.
That proposal appeared in popular science magazines THIRTY years ago.
I wish “Chemtrails” would disappear from FR!
A WWII photograph shows aerial combat over England (in black and white).
Fighter aircraft from BOTH SIDES are emitting “Chemtrails”...
Are you permanently excused from jury duty?
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