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Researchers conspired to hide tests to dim the Sun to 'avoid scaring' the public: comms show
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'avoid scaring them'
SUMMARY
The conspiracy
A University of Washington research team covertly planned a solar geoengineering experiment to dim sunlight by creating clouds over a 3,900-square-mile ocean area off North America, Chile, or south-central Africa. The Marine Cloud Brightening Program, backed by billionaire donors like Chris Larsen, deliberately withheld plans from the public and local officials to “avoid scaring them,” as revealed in internal texts. A smaller test on a retired aircraft carrier in Alameda, California, was halted in June 2024 after city officials, unaware until media reports surfaced, banned it for violating lease terms.
The team’s secrecy extended to strategic concealment.
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