A Closer Look at ARIA: Britain’s Secretive £800 Million Sun-Dimming Quango

[rangerrebew]

A Closer Look at ARIA: Britain’s Secretive £800 Million Sun-Dimming Quango
by Tilak Doshi 13 May 2025 9:00 AM

The UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), established in 2023 with an £800 million purse of taxpayer funds, received a burst of publicity last week when it was unveiled that the agency was planning to “dim the sun” to fight global warming. The agency approved £56.8 million to be spent on “climate cooling” projects which include looking into the logistics of building a ‘sunshade’ in space and injecting plumes of salt water into the sky to reflect sunlight away from Earth.

ARIA is the brainchild of Dominic Cummings, a prominent British political strategist who served as the chief adviser to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson from 2019 to 2020. Cummings pitched a lean, “audacious” agency to fund high-stakes research in AI, quantum computing and synthetic biology, sidestepping the “timid bureaucracy” of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). In a research paper published in 2018 on his website, ‘On the ARPA/PARC “Dream Machine”, science funding, high performance and UK national strategy’, Cummings proposed a high-powered publicly-funded British research agency to emulate the US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC).

The latter two entities inculcated high-risk, high-reward research with minimal bureaucracy and exemplified high-performance team performance, flexible work processes and visionary leadership. They yielded many innovations such as GPS, the internet, laser printing, the graphical user interface and the computer mouse, which resulted in large societal and economic returns.

https://dailysceptic.org/2025/05/13/a-closer-look-at-aria-britains-secretive-800-million-sun-dimming-quango/

[Smokin Joe]

If this is what passes for 'brilliant' in the UK, I can see why the Muslims are getting elected.

[mountaineer]

They're spewing sulfur dioxide.

Tom Elliott
@tomselliott
How is it legal to purposefully release a deadly toxin — sulfur dioxide — into the atmosphere, as part of their own weird cultish ritual? These lunatics need to be imprisoned.
12:05 PM · May 30, 2025


Make Sunsets
@MakeSunsets
Earlier this week, we deployed ~12.99 pounds of sulfur dioxide (SO₂) into the stratosphere, including one launch that reached an altitude of 101,400 feet. These deployments offset the warming effect of 5,895 metric tons of CO₂ for a year. In under three hours, we achieved the climate-cooling equivalent of planting 267,954 mature trees.

https://twitter.com/MakeSunsets/status/1928227743797498214

[Smokin Joe]

Did they account for transpiration (ongoing) from those trees?
That evaporative cooling effect was likely ignored completely.

These maniacs need a rubber room where they can't start the next Ice Age.

[BobfromWB]

UK dims the Sun, causing worldwide famine as crops fail and starvation prevails in dozens of countries. Outrage prevails. Politicians condemn the UK. Hostilities begin. Hostilities end when the US, China, and Russia nuke the UK into oblivion.