ARIA’s ‘Exploring Climate Cooling’ Folly
On 7 May 2025, the UK Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) announced the list of projects to be funded under its £60 million solar geoengineering research initiative. Readers of this blog will already be familiar with solar geoengineering (also known as Solar Radiation Modification, or SRM for short), why it is a false response […]
Who funds and who pays: The funding of solar geoengineering, 2020–2025
On October 24, 2025, Politico reported the Israeli-U.S. solar geoengineering startup Stardust Solutions would receive $60 million from Lowercarbon Capital and other Silicon Valley philanthropies and investment firms. This announcement renewed discussion about who funds solar geoengineering and who receives this funding. Scientists have long argued that researching these technologies may enable their use. Funding […]