Mexico Banning Chemtrails?

Who remembers this story about the company Make Sunsets launching weather balloons that may have released sulfur particles in the stratosphere?

Chemtrails EXPOSED!

From MIT Technology Review:

Some researchers who have long studied the technology are deeply troubled that the company, Make Sunsets, appears to have moved forward with launches from a site in Mexico without any public engagement or scientific scrutiny. It’s already attempting to sell “cooling credits” for future balloon flights that could carry larger payloads.

It appears Mexico didn't take too kindly to this solar geoengineering experiment.

On Friday, the Mexican government issued a statement that it plans to "prohibit and, where appropriate, stop experimentation practices with solar geoengineering in the country," CNBC reports.

According to reports, Make Sunsets had been releasing sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere to "reflect sunlight" in Baja California Sur.

Although the company reportedly had plans for further sulfur dioxide releases in January, widespread criticism has squashed those plans.

For now, at least.

Make Sunsets said on Wednesday it would cease operations after the Mexican government's statement to prohibit solar geoengineering experimentation.

Mexico bans solar geoengineering experiments after Make Sunsets field tests

Startup tried to launch sulfur dioxide into stratosphere from Baja California without prior notice & consent

already selling cooling credits at $10/gram of SO₂; no guarantee won’t trigger bigger threat https://t.co/Sc8UWE5O6S pic.twitter.com/ZQSV2vDBX6

— Prodigal (@ProdigalThe3rd) January 18, 2023

☀ Mexico plans to ban solar geoengineering after rogue experimenthttps://t.co/h23hF3IF1l

— Climate Home News (@ClimateHome) January 18, 2023

CNBC reported:

The tiny startup Make Sunsets, which had been experimenting with releasing sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight in order to cool the earth, said Wednesday it would cease operations for the time being and review its approach after the Mexican government cracked down on solar geoengineering.

The idea of releasing aerosols into the atmosphere to cool the earth has been around since the 1960's, but it had largely been relegated to science fiction until recently, as the urgency of climate change has become more apparent. The White House is currently coordinating a five-year research plan to study the idea, which is colloquially known as "solar geoengineering," and the quadrennial U.N.-backed Montreal Protocol assessment report for the first time included an entire chapter it.

Luke Iseman, a serial inventor and the former director of hardware at Y Combinator, believed all of that research was not happening fast enough. So he started tinkering with releasing sulfur dioxide particles into the atmosphere with balloons, raised venture capital to fund the startup, and brought on co-founder Andrew Song to manage sales.

Make Sunsets was planning to launch three latex weather balloons that would release anywhere between 10 and 500 grams of sulfur dioxide in January. But many industry watchers criticized its plans for being hasty and lacking sophistication.

The Mexican government's full statement is quite interesting.

The press release, titled "Experimentation with solar engineering will not be allowed in Mexico," states that studies show "negative impacts due to the release of these aerosols."

"Solar geoengineering practices seek to counteract the effects of climate change, through the emission of gases into the atmosphere such as: sulfur dioxide, aluminum sulfate, among others," the statement added.

That sounds like the nasty, toxic heavy metals in chemtrails.

What you often see across the United States when you look up.

Yet, chemtrails have long been considered a 'conspiracy theory.'

Chemtrails EXPOSED!

Is Mexico outright banning these geoengineering experiments that poison the skies?

Here's the full translated press release:

• Studies show negative impacts due to the release of these aerosols and that they cause meteorological imbalances.
• There is an international moratorium that remains in force against the deployment of geoengineering.

To prohibit and, where appropriate, stop experimentation practices with solar geoengineering in the country, the Government of Mexico, through inter-institutional coordination between the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat) and the National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt), will carry out actions attached to the precautionary principle to protect communities and environmental environments. 

The United Nations (UN) Convention on Biological Diversity, to which Mexico is a party, established in 2010 a moratorium that is still in force against the deployment of geoengineering.

The opposition to these climatic manipulations is based on the fact that there are currently no international agreements that address or supervise solar geoengineering activities, which represent an economically advantageous way out for a minority and risky for the supposed remediation of climate change. 

For this reason, Semarnat will implement a strategy that prohibits these practices within the national territory, which serve to strengthen the first references worldwide. Under the precautionary principle and the bases established in the Montreal Protocol, which promotes the protection of the ozone layer and the fight against climate change, any large-scale practice with solar geoengineering in its territory will be stopped, which presumes to be technologies of large scale, but are still under development.

Conacyt will coordinate with experts the review of existing rigorous scientific research to expose the serious risks that solar geoengineering practices represent for the environment, people and their community settings. 

In addition, work is being done to make relevant information available to the general public on the subject of geoengineering that has been promoted in recent years by companies, scaling up investments so that, without scientific support, they perceive them as alternative technologies to face the impacts of climate change. .

Solar geoengineering practices seek to counteract the effects of climate change, through the emission of gases into the atmosphere such as: sulfur dioxide, aluminum sulfate, among others. This process induces the sun's rays to be reflected back into space, thus avoiding the increase in temperature in a specific geographical area.

However, there are enough studies that show that there would be negative and unequal impacts associated with the release of these aerosols, which cause meteorological imbalances such as winds and torrential rains, as well as droughts in tropical areas; in addition to generating impacts on the thinning of the planet's ozone layer.

Recently in the state of Baja California Sur, the Startup Make Sunsets, carried out technical experiments of this type, launching meteorological balloons with sulfur dioxide, without prior notice and without the consent of the Government of Mexico and the surrounding communities. In the blog of the Make Sunsets website, the company states that it does not know the results of the experiment, since the balloons were not monitored or recovered.

The Government of Mexico reiterates its unavoidable commitment to the protection and well-being of the population against practices that generate risks to human and environmental security, working in a coordinated, rigorous and responsible manner for the well-being of the people of Mexico.

Joint Press Release No. 3/23

Mexico City, January 13, 2023.

Of course, Make Sunsets responded to the Mexican government's statement.

NEW: The sorta troll-ish startup has responded to Mexico's response to their solar geoengineering "experiments" in sorta troll-ish fashion.https://t.co/BhrzuVq21U pic.twitter.com/ehKKr7qgSg

— Dave Levitan (@davelevitan) January 18, 2023

Make Sunsets stated:

Make Sunsets was founded to cool the world. We are aware that technological efforts to cool climate include significant risks and require research and governance and we care a great deal about this.

We appreciate the Mexican government’s concern for protecting communities and the natural environment and support their call for scientific expertise and oversight of climate intervention activities. We also appreciate their concern for national and local engagement and regret that we had failed to take this into consideration sooner.

We agree that there are no alternative technologies that replace the need to reduce emissions to remediate climate change. We also see that the negative and unequal impacts of climate change are growing, and we hope to encourage the world to consider whether technological interventions have the potential to help.