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Why Bill Gates Is Funding Solar Geoengineering Research
Fires burning across the Amazon rainforest have renewed the debate about solutions to climate change. Bill Gates is backing the first high-altitude experiment of one radical approach called solar geoengineering. It’s meant to mimic the effects of a giant volcanic eruption. Thousands of planes would fly at high altitudes, spraying millions of tons of particles around the planet to create a massive chemical cloud that would cool the surface.
“Modeling studies have found that it could reduce the intensity of heat waves, for instance, apparently it could reduce the rate of sea level rise. It could reduce the intensity of tropical storms,” said Andy Parker, project director at the Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative.
The technology is not far from being ready and it’s affordable, but it could cause massive changes in regional weather patterns and eradicate blue sky.
“These consequences might be horrific. They might involve things like mass famine, mass flooding, drought of kinds that will affect very large populations,” said Stephen Gardiner, author of “A Perfect Moral Storm: The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change.”
Watch the video to learn how it would work and hear the debate around the ethics and efficacy of solar geoengineering.
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Why Bill Gates Is Funding Solar Geoengineering Research
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Unstoppable demand for AI is leading to a capacity crunch on factory lines at the world’s leading chip manufacturer, Taiwan Semiconductor. And it could put a chokehold on AI’s ability to scale. Analysts tell CNBC that Nvidia, Apple, Broadcom, AMD and others are locked in an “extremely fierce” competition to get their GPUs, CPUs and custom AI chips made at TSMC. Capacity can’t come online fast enough, despite TSMC’s rush to build new fabs in Taiwan, Japan and Arizona, where has expanded investment to $265 billion. The strain has made one man at TSMC “the most popular person on the planet,” as chip start-ups and big name CEOs visit Taiwan to ask him for wafer allocation. It’s also created a rich opportunity for Intel, as customers look to the long-struggling foundry arm of the U.S. chip manufacturer for a second source.
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6:54 Making room for smaller players
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Why There’s An ‘Extremely Fierce’ Battle For TSMC’s Limited Chip Manufacturing Capacity
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Billions of dollars have been raised for this year’s midterms elections, with a significant portion coming from big name tech billionaires in the cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence and online gambling sectors. Megadonors’ contributions are overwhelmingly behind Republicans in the 2026 midterm election, with 14 of the 20 largest donor groups exclusively or nearly exclusively backing GOP candidates or outside groups. CNBC’s Luke Fountain reports.
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The Megadonors Funding The 2026 Midterms
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@youngnutsack17
December 19, 2023 at 5:15 pm
This is so dam dumb and irresponsible, what happens when a natural disaster hits, a global war or even crazier wildfires that stack up and enhance this effect?? Why do they think they can play god or that it’s even worth the risk? Why are they making these decisions without us??
@SalamHerbs-db5nt
December 19, 2023 at 5:15 pm
They're always spraying chemical clouds here in central illinois. They were doing it today in the middle of december. Of course if you tell someone they'll say you're a crazy conspiracy theorist amd they'll have absolutely 0 knowledge on the topic because they are stupid dumbed down slaves. If this is such a democracy why don't they let us vote on whether or not we want mass amounts of man made chemicals sprayed over us? Geo-engineering is illegal in mexico. US government is super evil. I wonder how much those pilots i saw today spryaint for several hours over the same area until the chem cloud expands are getting paid? I wonfer how much tax slave money it cost? This is all an anti human scam. Chemtrails have been going on for quite some time.
@rapturefox7068
December 19, 2023 at 5:15 pm
We need to get this guy some real street justice
@dan32one44
December 19, 2023 at 5:15 pm
Can’t wait for God to strike these fools down… all they doing is creating an earth 🌍 in balance the earth knows what to do with itself is been doing it for hundreds of thousands of years stop the nonsense bias Hippocrates in my state they promote solar but they block sun ☀️ with cloud seeding fools. They think the people are stupid.
@Shredder858
December 19, 2023 at 5:15 pm
“We’ve got to cut our C02 to zero?”
@Shredder858
December 19, 2023 at 5:15 pm
Predictive programming psyop
@Shredder858
December 19, 2023 at 5:15 pm
Just replace “it would” with ‘it already is…’ 😡
@nikkiflorio9938
December 19, 2023 at 5:15 pm
Geoengineering has been ongoing for over 70 years now… geoengineering is defined as large scale intervention in Earth's natural systems to counteract climate "change"; yet, these projects which are executed daily – under commercial, scientific, and military direction – are the largest driver of these "changes". Mainstream media repeatedly fails to cover the full story. Bill Gates – a huge investor and funder in geoengineering projects understands the value in controlling global media and climate. Whether it's funding of FICER (Harvard geoengineering), or his own private investments in SRM/CDR, his )and other billionaires and military control over weather is wreaking havoc on the planet and natural weather systems.
@TheTruth-tc5hn
December 19, 2023 at 5:15 pm
they have no idea
@matixchris9473
December 19, 2023 at 5:15 pm
Geoengineering is destroying the planet.. We need to wake up !! And stop it..
@emzee586
December 19, 2023 at 5:15 pm
No one currently stands to make money. Bill Gates is behind this, think about that.
@kellybennett8011
December 19, 2023 at 5:15 pm
Stop altering this planet now!
@WouterVisuals
December 19, 2023 at 5:15 pm
This should stop ASAP. They are spraying poison in the sky. Blue skies are a thing of the past.
@cocochocookiedough
December 19, 2023 at 5:15 pm
Who gave them the permission to do that?
@asherasky8147
December 19, 2023 at 5:15 pm
This is why the trees and earth are rotting away similar to that which happened to bill gates and his buddies brains, pure full corruption
@asherasky8147
December 19, 2023 at 5:15 pm
They have and are already doing this for at minimum the past twenty years almost every day, you would have to be blind to not see it.
@963freeme
December 19, 2023 at 5:15 pm
He must go.
@ravenr876
December 19, 2023 at 5:15 pm
Bill Gates is a psychopath. Tell me again how this monster now has $111 billion dollars???? I can’t wait until God crushes him
@ravenr876
December 19, 2023 at 5:15 pm
Bill Gates had his hands in that Maui fire…He goes to China month prior, then Maui is burned with energy weapon
@deneseburrell2306
December 19, 2023 at 5:15 pm
This merely proves what an idiot Bill-not-a-doctor-scientist-virologist-college-grad-Gates really is since geoengineering is what got us into the climate change mess in the first place~☀🌦⛈🌪🌀⚡❄🔥🌡🌎💥
@kipallen6538
December 19, 2023 at 5:15 pm
The CO2 will still be there when the "dust" clears. Just an excuse to keep on with business as usual burning fossil fuel.
@theoddityfunnyguy
December 19, 2023 at 5:15 pm
is global warming a problem? YES! but this is not a solution, its the rise of a new problem! This whole thing is a mr burns plot NO LITERLY IT IS A MR BURNS PLOT
@bobhoward6420
December 19, 2023 at 5:15 pm
We have a class of rich, unregulated, idiots, doing whatever they want. Literally buying political support for their stupid unscientific, academic fraud funded genocidal plans.
@guym2966
December 19, 2023 at 5:15 pm
If they are talking about it they have already been doing it. Try watching the sky sometime and see how the jets exhaust makes the sky gray by the end of the day
@MesselPitt
December 19, 2023 at 5:15 pm
The Power of The Sun's Energy on Life, Health and Well-being. UVB = Vitamin D. — https://youtu.be/pjje7tow5Ic?si=_ls-qfPqx-XTjWsV
@natashamayberry3942
December 19, 2023 at 5:15 pm
😲 all the elites, are the ones funding this. All the way down to Leonardo 👿😡. Would not listen to a word they say.
@muraleesure2702
December 19, 2023 at 5:15 pm
It may be a big business to control sun light and weather 🤔🤔🤔
@schwarzwaldagrar4686
December 19, 2023 at 5:15 pm
Klimaschutz hat nix mit Umweltschutz zu tun!
@michaelcaldarone6930
December 19, 2023 at 5:15 pm
MORON of course whoever controls the government is already doing this to get the sheep to buy into their green agenda
@alisonbell-delassa5580
December 19, 2023 at 5:15 pm
Mr G is a dangerous man, anything he is involved in is NOT good news. Crazy project, sending positive vibes that this never takes off !
@oneofall626
December 19, 2023 at 5:15 pm
It’s skullduggery. The earths poles are shifting and that continues to weaken our magnetic field. This allows more solar energies in. They are calling these changes man-made. they are riding this lie as far as they can and ushering in changes that only benefit the the ultra rich and the global agenda.
@BS-Fact-checker
December 19, 2023 at 5:15 pm
With a population of 8 billion people only a handful somehow treat earth as their own.
Evil and wealth comes to mind when Bill Gates is involved.
@Sparty173
December 19, 2023 at 5:15 pm
So why is our government pushing solar energy, and then they will dim the planet?
@johnbirk1898
December 19, 2023 at 5:15 pm
And where the hell is this gonna fall? Let me guess,US
@evaseifert5671
December 19, 2023 at 5:15 pm
This is going on for DECADES allready. But of course, until Bill Gates talks about it, it has always been a "conspiracy theorie". Fires, draughts, floods, storms…..they are all manmade. Look up HAARP, DEW, Chemtrails and please……WAKE UP!!!!!!!
@chordbossguitar5509
December 19, 2023 at 5:15 pm
this is what would happen: https://youtu.be/VbwyR5jLSUQ?feature=shared