With a crazy plan, a group around Bill Gates wants to fight “climate change” with brute force and probably devastating consequences: If necessary, millions of tons of lime dust are to be sprayed into the stratosphere in order to reflect or dim sunlight and to slow down global warming. The first small-scale test for “global cooling” is to start in June to check the interactions with the atmosphere.

The idea of ​​putting a kind of sun protection over the globe has been around for a long time. It was discussed particularly intensely after the eruption of the Pinatubo volcano in the Philippines in 1991. Scientists examined the effects of the gigantic chemical cloud of 20 million tons of sulfur dioxide, which went into the stratosphere and there as sulfuric acid droplets floated around the globe for around a year. They looked like little mirrors that reflect sunlight. As a result…