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Bill Gates is now best known as a philanthropist, not the guy who started Microsoft or was the avatar for everyone’s annoyance with Windows 95.

He’s also known for wanting to save us from ourselves.

Now, apparently, he wants to save us from the sun.

現在，比爾·蓋茨最著名的是慈善家，而不是創立Microsoft

的人，也不是每個人都對Windows 95煩惱的化身。

他還以要拯救我們自己而聞名。

現在，顯然，他想讓我們免受陽光的傷害。

對於不了解這些事情的人，蓋茨在疫苗接種和大流行預防

方面都非常重視。很公平。那當然意味着他的時刻已經到

了。

但是，他是一個儘可能多的鎖定人員-如果您是一個有能力藏

起來的億萬富翁，就好了，這就像是坡（Poe）的“紅色死亡

面具”，但真實世界一樣對於我們其他人而言，後果可能是

成問題的。

但是，儘管您可能一直在關注他在疫苗接種和鎖定方面所做

的努力，但您可能沒有注意到蓋茨最有爭議的原因之一已經

得到批准：該項目將幫助遮擋陽光。

這聽起來有點像《漢蘭達2：加速》的情節，但這與科幻小

說沒什麼兩樣。

據路透社報道，哈佛大學的一個項目計劃測試一個有爭議的

理論，即可以通過向大氣中噴射能反射太陽光線的顆粒來

阻止全球變暖。

該項目代表了所謂的“地球工程”中最具爭議的方面之一，

即解決氣候變化等問題時，我們的生態系統的各個方面都

可以發揮或改變的想法。在這種情況下，將涉及反射一些

太陽光線以阻止它們到達地球。

路透社報道：“為抵消全球變暖，向平流層噴灑微小的，

反射太陽光的微粒以抵消全球變暖的露天研究已經擱置了

多年，其中包括可能阻止減少溫室氣體排放量的爭議，”

路透社報道。

“一小步，瑞典太空公司本周同意幫助哈佛大學的研究人員

明年6月在北極小鎮基律納附近發射氣球。它將搭載一架吊

船，吊艙內有600公斤高的科學設備，高度為20公里（12

英里）。

根據英國《每日郵報》 8月份的一份報告，哈佛團隊的項目

被稱為SCoPEx，大部分由蓋茨資助。（這給該主題起了個

籠統的標題：“調光太陽能拯救地球嗎？比爾·蓋茨想向平流

層噴灑數百萬噸灰塵以阻止全球變暖……但批評家們擔心這

會引發災難”）

《自然》雜誌的判斷力較低。

“這個想法很簡單：向平流層噴灑一堆粒子，它們會通過

將一些太陽光線反射回太空來冷卻星球。科學家們已經目睹

了這一原理的實際應用，”《自然》（Nature）於2018年

發表過報道。

“ 1991年皮納圖博火山在菲律賓爆發時，它向平流層注入

了大約2000萬噸的二氧化硫。平流層是一個大氣層，延伸

至地球表面約10至50公里。火山噴發造成了硫酸鹽顆粒的

霧霾，將行星冷卻了約0.5°C。在大約18個月的時間內，

地球的平均溫度恢復到蒸汽機抵達之前的水平。”

該計劃存在多個問題，其中最重要的一點是我們不知道可能

會產生意想不到的後果。但是對於環保主義者來說，問題

在於它無法解決他們想做的全球變暖問題 。

“除了啟用下一步，該測試沒有其他優點。瑞典環保主義者

智囊團WhatNext的負責人尼古拉斯·哈斯特羅姆

（NiclasHällström）說：

雖然Hällström擔心其他人也會遇到同樣的事情-改變降雨

模式或農作物產量的潛力-但他也擔心人們對他想要的解決

方案的關注不足，這是向零排放的過渡碳社會。

他說：“瑞典社會日益呼籲對氣候變化採取真正，即時的

解決方案。”

對。

他也不是唯一的一個。

反對這一想法的加拿大環保組織ETC Group的聯合執行董事

吉姆•托馬斯（Jim Thomas）說：“這既是改變社會規範，

跨越界限的實驗，也是科學實驗。”

但是話又說回來，蓋茨生活在這個夢想的世界中，他對流行

病和全球變暖的建議與他開發Windows的時間一樣重要。

Gates, for those of you who don’t follow these things, has been big on both vaccination and pandemic prevention. Fair enough. That certainly means his moment has arrived.

However, he’s about as much of a lockdown guy as you can get — which is just fine if you’re a billionaire who can afford to hide away as if this were Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death,” but the real-world consequences for the rest of us can be, ahem, problematic.

However, while you may have been paying attention to his efforts on vaccination and lockdowns, you may not have noticed that one of Gates’ most controversial causes just got a go-ahead: A project that would help block out the sun.

This sounds a bit like the plot to “Highlander 2: The Quickening,” but it’s nothing near that science fiction-y.

According to Reuters, a Harvard University project plans to test out a controversial theory that global warming can be stopped by spraying particles into the atmosphere that would reflect the sun’s rays.

The project represents one of the most controversial aspects of what’s known as “geoengineering” — the idea that, to tackle issues like climate change, massive aspects of our ecosystem can be played with or changed. In this case, it would involve reflecting some of the sun’s rays to stop them from reaching Earth.

“Open-air research into spraying tiny, sun-reflecting particles into the stratosphere, to offset global warming, has been stalled for years by controversies – including that it could discourage needed cuts in greenhouse gas emissions,” Reuters reported.

“In a small step, the Swedish Space Corporation agreed this week to help Harvard researchers launch a balloon near the Arctic town of Kiruna next June. It would carry a gondola with 600 kg of scientific equipment 20 km (12 miles) high.”

The Harvard team, whose project is known as SCoPEx, is funded in large part by Gates, according to an August report in the U.K. Daily Mail. (Which gave the subject the wordy title: “Could dimming the sun save the Earth? Bill Gates wants to spray millions of tonnes of dust into the stratosphere to stop global warming… but critics fear it could trigger calamity”)

The journal Nature was less judgmental.

“The idea is simple: spray a bunch of particles into the stratosphere, and they will cool the planet by reflecting some of the Sun’s rays back into space. Scientists have already witnessed the principle in action,” Nature already reported in 2018. (Headline: “First sun-dimming experiment will test a way to cool Earth”)

“When Mount Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines in 1991, it injected an estimated 20 million tonnes of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere — the atmospheric layer that stretches from about 10 to 50 kilometres above Earth’s surface. The eruption created a haze of sulfate particles that cooled the planet by around 0.5 °C. For about 18 months, Earth’s average temperature returned to what it was before the arrival of the steam engine.”

There are several problems with this plan, not the least of which is that we don’t know what the unintended consequences might be. But to environmentalists, the problem is that it doesn’t solve global warming the way they want to do it.

“There is no merit in this test except to enable the next step. You can’t test the trigger of a bomb and say ‘This can’t possibly do any harm,'” said Niclas Hällström, director of the Sweden-based environmentalist think-tank WhatNext?

And while Hällström is worried about some of the same things that other people are — the potential to change rain patterns or crop yields — he’s also concerned that people aren’t concerned enough about the solution he wants, which is a transition to a zero-carbon society.

“Swedish society is increasingly calling for real, immediate solutions to climate change,” he said.

Right.

He’s not the only one, either.

“This is as much an experiment in changing social norms and crossing a line as it is a science experiment,” said Jim Thomas, co-executive director of Canadian-based environmentalist organization ETC Group, which opposes the idea.

But then again, Gates lives in this dream world where his advice on pandemics and global warming is given equal weight as his time developing Windows.

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