{"id":134178,"date":"2022-01-17T12:44:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T20:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/dimming-the-sun-could-spell-doom-for-humanity-experts-warn"},"modified":"2022-01-17T12:44:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T20:44:14","slug":"dimming-the-sun-could-spell-doom-for-humanity-experts-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/dimming-the-sun-could-spell-doom-for-humanity-experts-warn","title":{"rendered":"Dimming the Sun Could Spell Doom for Humanity, Experts Warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dimming-the-sun-could-spell-doom-for-humanity-experts-warn2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Policy experts and scientists are coming together to stop such experimentation.<\/p>\n<p>Back in March of 2021, we brought you news of a study from the Bill Gates-backed Harvard University Solar Geoengineering Research Program which aimed to evaluate the efficacy of blocking sunlight from reaching our planet\u2019s surface in order to delay the effects of climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Now, more than 60 policy experts and scientists have come together to claim that these kinds of geoengineering initiatives are very dangerous for humanity, according to Phys.org.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSolar geoengineering deployment cannot be governed globally in a fair, inclusive and effective manner,\u201d said the researchers in a letter that was further supported by a commentary in the journal WIREs Climate Change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe, therefore, call for immediate political action from governments, the United Nations and other actors to prevent the normalization of solar geoengineering as a climate policy option.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Turns out geoengineering is not all it\u2019s cracked up to be, and experts say that it could be dangerous to play with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Policy experts and scientists are coming together to stop such experimentation. Back in March of 2021, we brought you news of a study from the Bill Gates-backed Harvard University Solar Geoengineering Research Program which aimed to evaluate the efficacy of blocking sunlight from reaching our planet\u2019s surface in order to delay the effects of climate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,38,31,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-engineering","category-policy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134178","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}