Mr O you gullible fool.
They are doing it because they are getting grants and funding and tax benefits, just like tax concessions for R&D.
CHANGE THE WEATHER!
HA HA HA HA, oh you poor deranged, deluded fool.
I actually can't think of anything more to say about such a stupid comment.
Change the weather?
Really?
They'll milk it for all it's worth, they're not wealthy because they gave money away or spent it without knowing they were getting back many times more than they spent, otherwise, like this latest fantasy of Mr O's, it would be called GAMBLING!
Do you actually stop and think about what you write before or even after you've written it?
Obviously not, because the evidence is right here.

Mr O,

The Greens had a go at geoengineering. They thought they could gobble up masses of CO2 by planting a heap of trees in Oz. Unfortunately their sacred oracle, the computer climate model, which is 100% accurate for hundreds of years, did not foresee their wonderful trees catching fire. There is a reason for this, the reason being Scott Morrison, or Scumo as you affectionately call him. What a Bardfast!

Gates and Branson want to cool the planet with sulphur aerosols. This is a really dumb idea. A much better idea is ocean fertilisation (OF). It is an especially good idea as it is vigorously opposed by both Greenies and religious fundamentalists (despite the fact that God is all for it!). The wonderful thing about OF, which very few people realise, it that the resultant plankton blooms trap heat in the ocean surface. This, along with the dimethyl sulphide they produce, leads to more evaporation, clouds, and rainfall. This raises the question, "Can using plankton blooms to warm anomalously cool areas of ocean around Australia influence rainfall patterns on the mainland (note runner, "influence", not "control")?

Cheers

ALTRAV,

I must admit that I was unaware that Branson and Gates were not using their own money to finance their geoengineering schemes.

Can you provide information to me on the sources and amounts of money they are using in these schemes? (PS Don't hold your breath waiting for this folks!)

Mr O, you obviously are not, nor have you ever been in business.
You can't be too smart if you don't know about these standard business practices.
You must think that when these guys APPEAR to give away money, it's because they're such good guys, well no it's because they gain something from it, or get something out of it.
As for asking for proof, you'll have to wait till their tax time comes around, and even then, good luck, although being a tax and grant issue it will be visible in their tax returns.

MrO, BTW, sorry, they do use THEIR OWN MONEY, unless it's R&D, then it's a grant, (govt money).

ALTRAV,

You're a slippery snake when it comes to supporting your statements with indisputable facts.

I suppose this comes from years of practice with the AGW denialist school. You're like the sophists of old, convincing people that hot is cold, black is white, etc. Coming from an Arts background I tend to follow Socratic methods myself.

Don't take it too hard on losing out on the global warming issue. It was just inevitable.

Just out of curiosity, can you tell me what motivated you to be an AGW denialist? Is it having lots of shares in the mining industry? Being a mining engineer? You're married to either Gina Rinehart or Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest? ............... You can come clean, we won't think any worse of you.