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Brace for Extreme Weather

The greatest challenge for humanity is our inability to grasp the exponential function. Extreme weather events are getting exponentially frequent and severe. For five years in a row the Global Risk Report has listed extreme weather, such as droughts, floods, wildfires and storms, as the top threat to humanity

A dangerous gap in our thinking

Climate interventions seek to cool the planet, while carbon capture aims to reduce atmospheric CO2. However both leave runaway, catastrophic weather unaddressed -and its intolerable human and economic toll.

Viento is a ‘moonshot’ nonprofit pioneering targeted weather security.

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Leadership Team

Aubrey de Grey

Aubrey de Grey

Co-founder, Chief Science Officer, and mastermind of Viento. Author, mathematician, and biomedical gerontologist. Cofounder and CSO of the SENS Research Foundation.

Manuel Maqueda

Manuel Maqueda

Co-founder and CEO. Serial social entrepreneur and advisor (SUPER, Long Now). Teacher of Applied Circular Economics at Harvard; and of Social Innovation and Circular Economy at UC Berkeley.

Allison Duettmann

Allison Duettmann

Advisor. President of Foresight Institute, a non-profit to advance biotech, nanotech, computing for the long-term benefit of life.

Cyrus Hodes

Cyrus Hodes

Advisor. Partner at FoundersX Ventures, member of the Global Partnership on AI Climate Change & Biodiversity Committee, OECD ONE AI and EU Parliament Panel for the Future of Science and Technology.

Lou de Kerhuelvez

Lou de Kerhuelvez

Advisor. Vice President, Foresight Institute. Responsible for the Existential Hope Track at Foresight Institute, among other programs.

Bill Liao

Bill Liao

Advisor. Entrepreneur (IndieBioEU, Xing); investor (Twitter, SOSV) and philanthropist (co-founder of WeForest & CodeDojo).

Jaan Tallinn

Jaan Tallinn

Advisor. Co-founder of Skype & Kazaa, entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist (co-founder, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk & Future of Life Institute).

AI & Forecasting Team

Edward Ott

Edward Ott

Distinguished Professor, Electrical Engineering and Physics, leader of the world-renowned Chaos Research Group at the University of Maryland.

Brian Hunt

Brian Hunt

Research Professor of Mathematics, University of Maryland. Machine Learning & Chaos researcher.

Istvan Szunyogh

Istvan Szunyogh

Professor, Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University. Numerical Weather Prediction and Data Assimilation researcher.

Viento Science Workshop Team

Harold Brooks

Harold Brooks

Senior Scientist, Forecast Research; National Severe Storms Laboratory, NOAA.

John Allen

John Allen

Assistant Professor of Meteorology, Central Michigan University. Severe Storm researcher.

Victor Gensini

Victor Gensini

Assistant Professor, Meteorology, Northern Illinois University. Extreme weather researcher.

Safa Motesharrey

Safa Motesharrey

Researcher at the University of Maryland: Author of seminal papers on geoengineering.

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too much sanity can be madness
and the maddest of all:
to see the world as it is,
and not as it should be

-Miguel de Cervantes

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