Bill Gates gives $4.5M to U of C researcher exploring 'artificial' clouds

Calgary Herald - May 12

Billionaire Bill Gates is funding experiments to explore using "artificial" clouds to cool the planet. Scientists say the experiments are in the early stages and confined to the lab, but critics say they are laying the groundwork for a trial to whiten clouds in a 10,000-square-kilometre patch of the Pacific. Gates, has given $4.5 million to climate researcher David Keith of the University of Calgary and Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution for Science to fund research on planet-cooling ideas......click here to read more.