U.K. Leaders Plan to Approve Geoengineering Experiments To Dim Sunlight
Another “Dark Age.” Just what the Brits need….more rain!
The citizens of the United Kingdom (UK) are certainly going through a new Dark Age, much of it brought on by their choices.
Their leader is the absolutely horrendous Keir Starmer. Citizens can be tossed into jail for social media posts. Their electricity prices are soaring due to their leader’s green energy schemes. Instead of the bubonic plague, there is now a notable increase in flesh-eating infections of the vulva that are hitting those who identify as women.
Well, the New Dark Ages are about to get darker. The UK government is poised to approve £50 million in funding for controlled solar geoengineering experiments within weeks, marking a significant step in exploring sunlight reflection methods (SRM) to mitigate global warming.
These initiatives, managed by the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), aim to gather real-world data on techniques that could temporarily cool the planet in the questionable effort to reduce the “global temperature“.
The Advanced Research and Invention Agency (Aria) will announce the funded projects within weeks, making Britain one of the world’s biggest funders of geoengineering research.
Professor Mark Symes, Aria’s programme director, confirmed there would be “small controlled outdoor experiments on particular approaches”.
The controversial technology aims to reflect sunlight back into space, potentially providing a temporary brake on rising global temperatures while emissions reduction efforts continue.
Like the “Make Sunsets” start-up that is now being targeted by the the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which is, which is actually interested in protecting the environment, ARIA’s approach includes releasing reflective particles (such as sulphate or calcite) into the upper atmosphere to mimic the cooling effect of volcanic eruptions.
Other techniques include cloud brightening and cloud seeding.
In recent decades, experts noticed that the clouds above shipping routes were far brighter than usual, as pollution caused them to become more reflective, bringing an overall dimming effect.
This cooling from shipping fumes was so marked that when international regulations were enacted to curb sulphur dioxide emissions in 2020, it caused a spike in global warming, scientists believe.
Prof Jim Haywood, of Atmospheric Science at the University of Exeter, said: “If you inject small particles into clouds you can brighten them, hence reflecting more sunlight back out to space.
…Other ideas for geoengineering include seeding cirrus clouds to allow more heat to escape into space. Currently, the wispy high-altitude clouds act as a blanket, trapping in heat.
Not everyone is happy about the news. Interestingly, a study from Rutgers University found that suddenly halting so-called ‘solar geoengineering’ could have severe impacts on climate.
The stoppage would drastically accelerate climate change, with severe consequences for the planet’s wildlife, researchers said.
‘Rapid warming after stopping geoengineering would be a huge threat to the natural environment and biodiversity,’ study coauthor Professor Alan Robock said.
‘If geoengineering ever stopped abruptly, it would be devastating, so you would have to be sure that it could be stopped gradually, and it is easy to think of scenarios that would prevent that.
‘Imagine large droughts or floods around the world that could be blamed on geoengineering, and demands that it stop. Can we ever risk that?’
In fact, more than 190 scientists recently issued a joint statement characterizing solar radiation modification (SRM)—also known as solar geoengineering—as a “dangerous distraction” from real climate solutions, likening it to “treating cancer with aspirin.”
I suspect the move is not going to be popular with non-scientists in the United Kingdom either. “Public consultations” are planned for later this year.
UK Research and Innovation plans to conduct nationwide public consultations in late 2025, addressing ethical and social concerns. However, environmental organizations have already questioned whether public input will meaningfully influence research trajectories already in motion.
I am not sure the British people think that more rain is going to make things better. pic.twitter.com/iZZB9MNANs
— Leslie Eastman ☥ (@Mutnodjmet) April 24, 2025
Of course, as those living in the British Isles can be imprisoned for non-approved texts, I am sure those “consultations” will be meaningless. The eco-activist bureaucrats will go ahead, squander the money, and be heedless of the consequences.
One last note: As I discuss the Dark Ages, please check out Dr. Matthew Wielicki’s piece on how the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change hid the Medieval Warm Period.
This erasure isn’t accidental. The IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) minimizes the MWP, often describing it as a regional or modest climate fluctuation… not a globally significant phase. This vague framing allows them to avoid confronting the wide body of peer-reviewed evidence showing synchronized warming across both hemispheres, a conclusion that undermines the entire premise of modern warming being “unprecedented.”
The @IPCC_CH buried the Medieval Warm Period because it proves today’s warming isn’t unique… or even unusual.
A new Nature study from Antarctica just blew the narrative apart.
Read it here 👇 https://t.co/nh8ulBDLeM
— Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki (@MatthewWielicki) April 21, 2025
At least in the original Dark Ages, England was a merry old place to be.
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Just when you thought we had already reached Peak Stupid . . .
Within my lifetime, these feff wits have gone from ‘The sun never sets…’ to ‘The sun never shines on the British Empire’.
Do the other 8 billion of us get a say in this gobsmackingly stupid idea, or are the Brits simply going unilateral eco-terrorist?
A gigantic bumbershoot? https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExa295NjM1ZHo4bmI4djVuNjRlbjJ4aXI2Y3h3dm1lbnA5dmYxdjdwdCZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9cw/3fcmOju6A7Onx1ZFZV/giphy.gif
idk… climate scientists cant have it both ways: If solar irradiation and particulates (like sulfur dioxide) are a small/insignificant contribution to climate change, then this wont work; On the other hand, if solar irradiation and particulates (like sulfur dioxide) are a major contribution, then not only will this work, but it proves they are a bigger factor than Co2 and the current models are wrong.
The current models are wrong regardless.
Thinking they are wrong and proving it experimentally are entirely different. Other than terraforming and controlling for variables, there is no real way to demonstrate some of the assumptions.
If you aren’t developing the ability to lauch and control thousands of large mirrors in space, you are not serious about controlling the climate. You could reflect sunlight away from any place too warm. You could reflect more sunlight to anyplace that needed to be warmer. And if you decided that some particular place needed to be really warm, you could send all the sunlight there. Maxim 24 – “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a big gun.”
Today’s Spaceweather bulletin blames the recent deorbiting of a massive number of new Starlink satellites on “the Terminator.” Apparently, this is a periodic (11y) solar magnetic phenomenon, and not the recently disclosed Chinese sat-killer capability I feared from the headline.
Think of this as “gain of function” research by the environmentalists. What can possibly go wrong?
We should shoot this nonsense down
Literally, if necessary.
If the effect could be limited to the formerly green and pleasant land of the British Isles, I’d just chuckle at their depravity, poor Brits, so glad we said goodbye 250 years ago.
But this will affect global temperatures including many countries that will not want it. It should be nuked from space if they try it.
Not exaggerating. It should be prevented by military means. They must not be allowed to do this.
If they don’t want the sun they can just move to seattle. Same weather. Same politics.
Dimming sunlight brought to you by dim politicians for an increasingly dim population.
Dimming the UK’s sunlight is as lame and counterproductive a challenge as installing garrison-size walk-in freezers at McMurdo.
Don’t worry about liability. I’m sure there’s already work behind the scenes to grant geoengineers (and the countries that sponsor their work) immunity from any damage they may cause, because the work is essential to the survival of the planet.
Not that I believe that these experiments will work in their intended way, unless the U.K. can assure the world that the chemicals required to conduct this experiment will stay within U.K. territorial boundaries the U.N. should have to approve such experiments?
“Experiments to dim sunlight”
Sun glasses would be a better option.
“Simpsons did it!”
Maybe a parasol?
Adding new meaning to putting it where the sun don’t shine.
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After a week of touring the UK (tried to hit the whole island in 8 days, skipping London) in March some 25 years ago, I was on an evening train from London to Dover. I was young and cute and a couple of cute guys struck up a conversation about my experiences.
“So, what did you reckon?” (What did you think of the UK)
“I loved it! I did have one problem though…”
They looked at each other, shrugged, and said, “The weather, right?” – it had rained and been cloudy most of the week.
“What? No. I expected it to be cloudy and rainy. I think I may have been disappointed had it been otherwise! No, it was the traffic – I never realized I look left-right-left before crossing the street. So even though I KNEW the traffic was opposite, I still looked wrong!”
They laughed and eventually they left at their station and I continued back to my semester in Florence.
So – yeah, seems to me the last thing the Brits need is LESS sunshine.
but maybe this is a sneaky way to convince the desert invaders to leave?
I had the same epiphany,
As long as you did look left-right-left, and didn’t try to beat out the traffic, you still do OK.
I experienced worse culture shock in Paris, mistranslating subway posters as “Modernize your home with new railroads” and “Do not encourage the mimes.” The first was resolved as the French terms for “curtain rod” and “railroad” being homonyms. The second turned out to be a 100% accurate translation.
Simpson’s did it.
A megalomaniacal, world-destroying James Bond villain is what comes to mind, after reading about the Brits’ idiotic conceit.
They had a brilliant Q.
Then we had a paranoid Q.
Then they said, “hold our pint.”
That was my first thought. That this was the plot of the next James Bond movie.
Trump should demand reparations from the UK, France, Belgium, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Australia for all the wasted blood of Americans between 1941-45 if this takes place.
Maybe Montgomery Burns can lend them his sunblocker.
I would feel a lot safer if the UK would hire a coven of witches to do this.
“The controversial technology aims to reflect sunlight back into space, potentially providing a temporary brake on rising global temperatures while emissions reduction efforts continue.”
In other words change the earth’s albedo. According to current measurements, global albedo averaging (over time and space) stands at 0.30. According to Steve Koonin (in his book “Unsettled” page 60) an increase from 0.30 to 0.31 would compensate for a doubling of the atmospheric CO2 concentration. The message: the earth’s climate system is extremely sensitive to the average albedo. I’m pretty sure this sensitivity motivates the geo-engineers. On the other hand, trying to monkey with the albedo is fraught with risks because our understanding of the whole system is limited. For one thing, we don’t understand the cloud physics which influences the albedo. The general circulation models operate on a much larger scale than the cloud physics, so the modelers have to guess at the mechanisms. Hence the tremendous variability of modeling results. The climate sensitivity factor suffers from a large uncertain interval– unchanged since the 1970s. This shows our understanding of the climate system has not improved.
Another instance of FAFO.
Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun
If the sun don’t come, you get a tan from standing in the english rain
Do you have tusks?
koo koo cha koo!
Fleetwood Mac’s lawyer on line 3…
Ever notice how short the timeline used to demonstrate the history of Global Warming? In geologic time, 1 million years is the length of time it takes to snap your fingers. Odd that the experts often point to the past 100,000 years to show warming, isn’t it?
Try this on for size. It is an estimate of temperaturs going back 550 million years: : https://tinyurl.com/3y4bahm3
Did any of these people take basic science. I haven’t since freshman yr of college but I recall that our oxygen comes from plants converting CO2 to O2 and what powers the whole process is sunlight. So lets have less sunlight, less O2, smaller crop yields, bring back global famines, But hey the Earth cooled by a tenth of a degree, Morons.
The goal is not global cooling but global power and wealth for the participants. If they were serious about global warming, just plant forests everywhere, which act as heat sinks – which anyone who ever had a woods removed from behind a home would know. Then use the trillions saved to reduce government deficits and increase the standard of living for the whole world.
If they were serious about global warming, they would be be building nuclear power plants as fast as they could
So when they trigger catastrophic global cooling and the next ice age with their climate monkey business who do we get to string up on the nearest lamppost for their arrogance that destroyed the world. Just asking.
What about those of us who live on this planet and don’t agree with this stupidity? Nuke them now.