EPA Chief Sounds Alarm on Rogue Climate Group Launching Sulfur Dioxide Balloons to Geo-Engineer Earth
17th April 2025
Rogue climate activists in Northern California are launching balloons filled with sulfur dioxide into the upper atmosphere in an effort to manipulate the Earth’s temperature. In exchange, the climate startup behind the operation sells “cooling credits” priced at $30 for a subscription or $5 to offset 1 ton of carbon dioxide. The startup’s unregulated operations are causing a major stir and have drawn the attention of EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin.
“Make Sunsets is a startup that is geoengineering by injecting sulfur dioxide into the sky and then selling “cooling credits.” This company is polluting the air we breathe. I’ve instructed my team that we need to quickly get to the bottom of this and take immediate action,” Zeldin wrote on X.
April 17th, 2025 at 10:19
Sulfur dioxide is more than twice as dense as air, so a balloon filled with the stuff would lay on the ground and quiver. Attaching three or four similar balloons filled with hydrogen would get things started in the right direction, but the balloons would probably rupture before reaching “the upper atmosphere”. Besides, balloons and hydrogen cost money, as does SO2.
I think people trying to do STEM things while holding a degree in Social Science might want to reconsider their options.
April 17th, 2025 at 12:35
That’s the problem. They think that a degree in anything makes them experts in everything.