The most famous supporter of this method is Bill Gates. It is he who financed large-scale research designed to find out the possible dangers and positive consequences of spraying substances into the atmosphere that would reflect some of the sunlight back into space and thus cool the planet. Gates himself is a co-founder of Microsoft, and Microsoft has become the main investor in OpenAI, the developer of GhatGPT, having already invested more than $10 billion in it. So it’s no surprise that now Sam Altman, founder and president of OpenAI, supports the ideaIt is at the peak of its popularity today.

Sam Altman endorses solar geoengineering

The entrepreneur shared his thoughts on this issue on his social networks. He says he wants the world to look deeper into solar geoengineering in case one or another country decides to take a risk and use this method at a critical moment.

“I wish the world would study solar geoengineering more. Obviously there are concerns about it, but it’s so cheap that I think some countries will do it as a temporary solution if the climate crisis gets serious enough. It was.” It would be great if I could learn more by then.”

Later he also addedExciting scientific discoveries are expected in the coming years.

What’s the problem with solar geoengineering?

The issue of the impact of this method on the environment is quite complex. Solar geoengineering involves partially blocking the Earth from sunlight. These could be both mirrors placed in space to reflect photons back into space and spraying chalk or sulfur dioxide into the planet’s atmosphere.

Scientists turned to this idea, which is actually quite old, because not many people have yet worked against global warming. Humanity is trying to reduce carbon, methane and other greenhouse gas emissions and build factories to absorb them, but so far there has been no concrete progress in this direction. Therefore, it was decided that if we could not reduce the amount of heat-trapping gases, we would reduce the amount of heat reaching the Earth.

But the problem is Everything we know about solar geoengineering we know only from scientists’ assumptions. While some see this as salvation, others argue that such actions will trigger a self-sustaining cooling process and lead to a new ice age. Another problem is that no supercomputer can accurately predict how the planet will react.