Project Bluebird, an Australian design fiction

*I remain quite the fan of design fiction – although this thing looks diabolical. This Bluebird thing is like a sneeze away from an Orson Welles / H G Wells war of the worlds panic.

http://www.openthefuture.com/2010/05/rogue_geoengineering_project_u.html

"Last week, Kyle Vandercamp, an atmospheric scientist, blew the whistle on a rogue geoengineering project funded by billionaire Harrison Wyld. Vandercamp was a senior scientist at the Bluebird Lab, and managed to get ahold of some pretty damning documents laying out the extent of what the Bluebird project intends to do.

"In short, Bluebird was supposed to be a research project looking at what geoengineering would entail, but Vandercamp says that they're actually looking at a near-term full-scale deployment.

"Here's the Bluebird website, which apparently had to go public early because of Vandercamp's leak..."