Bill Gates wants to block out the sun

The claim that "Bill Gates wants to block out the sun" is misleading and lacks context. Bill Gates is a financial backer of research into solar geoengineering, specifically a project called the Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx) led by Harvard University scientists. This project aims to explore the potential of using aerosols to reflect sunlight back into space as a means to mitigate global warming. However, the project is still in the experimental phase and involves releasing a small amount of non-toxic calcium carbonate dust into the atmosphere to study its effects, not to block out the sun entirely. The idea is to gather data on the feasibility and risks of solar geoengineering, not to implement it on a large scale. Critics of solar geoengineering express concerns about its potential unintended consequences on global weather patterns and the environment. Gates' involvement is limited to funding research, and he is not personally orchestrating a plan to block the sun. The claim has been debunked by multiple sources, including Poynter, PolitiFact, and Forbes. These sources clarify that the project is a scientific experiment to understand the potential of solar geoengineering, not a scheme to block out the sun.