We were.
However, you aren’t being “edgy” or “bold”, you are being unwise.
This is not a place to shoot from the hip.
Rationalizing from science fiction, has serious failure-modes, and your approach risks poisoning public support for an important climate intervention.
If you want to do right by this, you need to steelman the scientists critical of your work. Reflect back to them the best version of their argument until they agree that you understand it.
Not sure how releasing sulfur into the atmosphere can be legal so.
At a guess: nobody thought to make a law against it yet and/or nobody with power has yet tried to apply an existing law to it.
This was the most surprising thing we discovered, it's the wild west. The closest thing we found was https://2009-2017.state.gov/t/isn/4783.htm. We're not hostile, we come in peace.
I very very much doubt this can't be shut down by some environmental agency, if they only care to look. Even if there is no specific law about it, you can't normally just release stuff into the shared environment - you have to have some kind of dispensation for it (like the oil and coal industries unfortunately have for their own pollution, for example).
Launching sulfur into the stratosphere with the noble goal of increasing Earth's albedo might sound good locally but you don't seem to have applied any systems theory or scientific experiments to understand what complex interactions your actions might generate. The atmosphere is not a simple system, your actions might have very unintended consequences and you don't even seem phased by that...
Bearing gifts of free blankets!
Since you're calling this the "wild west," I sure hope you know your history.
Many have tried to trace down some proof of this happening, but no one has been able to do it. Others have tried to figure out where the anti-American underground that Zinn drew from came up with the idea, and the best they could find is a letter from a British military official speculating that this is something the UK should do to the Indians in their North American colony. But there is no evidence this idea was ever implemented, by the UK or anyone else.
Some lefty professor found the letter, concluded it happened, then during the retelling in various anti-american teach-ins and seminars, this changed from British doing it during the colonial era to the US doing it, time shifted to the civil war era in the wild west. But it never happened. It is one of many fabricated events in "People's History", but to be fair, Zinn didn't make it up, he just collected all the various unsourced rumors circulating in the underground at the time and decided to publish them as fact.
> I sure hope you know your history.
Indeed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeys_and_apes_in_space
> The first primate launched into subspace was Albert, a rhesus macaque, who on June 11, 1948, rode a rocket flight to over 63 km (39 mi) in Earth's atmosphere on a V-2 rocket. Albert died of suffocation during the flight and may actually have died in the cramped space capsule before launch.[1][2][3]
Killing Albert was entirely unneeded; we did it because we could.
I rarely engage in comments like this, but I think what you're doing is irresponsible, selfish, myopic and needs to be pointed out.
Tone down the god complex if you really want to help the cause.