{"id":144312,"date":"2022-08-17T05:22:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T10:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/scientists-want-to-block-out-the-sun-should-we-is-it-even-possible"},"modified":"2022-08-17T05:22:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T10:22:21","slug":"scientists-want-to-block-out-the-sun-should-we-is-it-even-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/scientists-want-to-block-out-the-sun-should-we-is-it-even-possible","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Want to Block Out the Sun. Should We? Is it Even Possible?"},"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\/qKeZ1EBHiN0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Iron could massively boost ocean algae populations.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists suggest we could fertilize the world\u2019s oceans with iron to fight climate change. Iron would lead to phytoplankton blooms, which would help to pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>One \u201cvery conservative\u201d estimate suggests a gigaton of carbon dioxide could be removed per year with this method.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have hatched a plan to flood the world\u2019s oceans with phytoplankton in a bid to avoid the worst effects of climate change.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists are seriously considering blocking out the Sun. To be more precise, they want to reflect a fraction of the sunlight that reaches Earth back out into the Solar System via a method called solar geoengineering.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/scientists-want-to-block-out-the-sun-should-we-is-it-even-possible\">Continue reading \u201cScientists Want to Block Out the Sun. Should We? Is it Even Possible?\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iron could massively boost ocean algae populations. Scientists suggest we could fertilize the world\u2019s oceans with iron to fight climate change. Iron would lead to phytoplankton blooms, which would help to pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. One \u201cvery conservative\u201d estimate suggests a gigaton of carbon dioxide could be removed per year with this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144312","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=144312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}