Sunday, November 17, 2024

UK government to fund geoengineering experiments to cool the Earth


UK government to fund geoengineering experiments to cool the Earth



In September, the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (“ARIA”) announced a significant investment of £57 million to fund researchers examining ideas for artificially cooling the planet through small-scale outdoor geoengineering experiments.  Proposals for funding real-world, outdoor experiments close in early December with successful projects that will receive funding being announced before July 2025.

ARIA, the UK’s answer to ARPA, is an innovation lab that was the brainchild of Dominic Cummings, the former No. 10 adviser to Boris Johnson. Armed with £800 million, it is tasked with pursuing scientific research to unlock “breakthroughs at the edge of the possible.”

According to The Telegraph, ARIA is “a nondescript office tucked in a corner of the British Library” with big ambitions with projects that include engineering the climate, replacing physical labour with robots and merging human brains with computers to turn us into cyborgs.  It was established by an Act of Parliament in 2022 and is sponsored by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (“DSIT”).  The Advanced Research and Invention Agency Act 2022 exempts the agencyfrom coming under the scope of the Freedom of Information Act.

ARIA said it was pursuing geoengineering research because “even under the most aggressive scenarios” of cutting greenhouse gasses, it may not be possible to reduce those emissions fast enough to prevent dangerous increases in global temperatures.

Without conducting physical tests of those strategies, the agency said, “there is no prospect of being able to make proper judgments” about whether any type of geoengineering is “feasible, scalable, and controllable.”

The agency, which is publicly funded but has a degree of independence from the British government, is soliciting proposals to be submitted before 9 December from researchers around the world and expects to announce the recipients in the first half of next year.

“This programme,” ARIA’s website states, “will explore whether approaches designed to delay, or avert, climate tipping points could be feasible scalable, and safe.”

As you can see for yourself in the video below presented by Programme Director Mark Symes, they are completely immersed in the climate change crisis scam, or at least completely dedicated to propagating the false narrative surrounding it.

Symes is an electrochemist, with a 15-year career developing sustainable fuels in the drive towards “net zero.”


The rationale the UK government is giving is that it is pursuing geoengineering research due to the urgent need to address climate change. Even under aggressive greenhouse gas reduction scenarios, it may not be possible to reduce emissions quickly enough to prevent dangerous temperature increases. This research aims to provide a better understanding of the technology’s potential and risks.

ARIA’s Exploring Climate Cooling experiments will likely involve testing of technologies and methods such as weather modification techniques, geoengineering strategies and climate engineering technologies as it specifically rules out carbon dioxide removal and general weather/climate simulation or monitoring activities.

ARIA’s programme thesis also states that “large-scale trials of climate engineering technologies continuously or over extended durations” are out-of-scope for its research.











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