{"id":122943,"date":"2021-05-23T15:35:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T22:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/could-blocking-the-sun-save-the-planet"},"modified":"2021-05-23T15:35:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T22:35:10","slug":"could-blocking-the-sun-save-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/could-blocking-the-sun-save-the-planet","title":{"rendered":"Could blocking the sun save the planet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5lOXqG8UTBM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As the need for urgent climate solutions grows, scientists want to put more research into a technology known as solar geoengineering \u2014 the idea of chemically altering the atmosphere to reflect sunlight away from Earth.<\/p>\n<p>It is seen as a potential method of cooling the planet and offsetting climate change. But could such a technology curtail a climate catastrophe \u2014 or become the cause of it?<\/p>\n<p>Those against solar geoengineering fear unintended consequences, including irreversible changes to weather patterns, and many climate activists are wary of using the Earth\u2019s atmosphere as a testing ground. Last month in Sweden, an experiment led by Harvard University researchers was cancelled following opposition by environmental and indigenous groups. Researchers had planned on testing a high-altitude balloon that could be used to disperse reflective aerosol particles into the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of The Stream, we\u2019ll learn more about solar geoengineering and the debate surrounding it.<\/p>\n<p>Join the conversation:<br \/> TWITTER: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJStream\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJStream<\/a>.<br \/> FACEBOOK: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AJStream\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AJStream<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>#aljazeeraenglish.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/could-blocking-the-sun-save-the-planet\">Continue reading \u201cCould blocking the sun save the planet?\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the need for urgent climate solutions grows, scientists want to put more research into a technology known as solar geoengineering \u2014 the idea of chemically altering the atmosphere to reflect sunlight away from Earth. It is seen as a potential method of cooling the planet and offsetting climate change. But could such a technology [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":628,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,38,48,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-engineering","category-particle-physics","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/628"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}