Harvard Scientists Will Actually Launch a Geoengineering Experiment Next Year

[ashling]

https://www.sciencealert.com/harvard-scientists-to-launch-groundbreaking-solar-geoengineering-experiment-in-2019?fbclid=IwAR21psAl3-VBoKW_XnUHZf7nmNu0jeIvuSqYDaBjYWzNKoBi27tFydpwsRc

As it happens, other Harvard scientists are indeed moving ahead with a groundbreaking plan to test the effects of solar geoengineering in the skies above our heads, and their US$3 million experiment could begin as early as next year.

The project – called the Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx) – is part of Harvard's Solar Geoengineering Research Program.

While most studies looking at the effects of spraying chemicals into the atmosphere to cool the planet rely on computer simulations to test their hypotheses, SCoPEx will conduct its testing in the real world.
In the experiment, a high-altitude balloon will fly up to the stratosphere, at an altitude of about 20 kilometres, and release a small aerosol plume of calcium carbonate.

Once the chemical payload is released, it's expected to disperse into a perturbed air mass about 1 kilometre long and 100 metres in diameter. The balloon will then fly back and forth through this cloud repeatedly for about 24 hours, analysing the particles' behaviour and evolution in the sky.

...and even if this experiment does not pan out, think of all the conspiracy theories it will spawn ...so there's that