{"id":191643,"date":"2024-06-23T00:28:16","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T05:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/oops-geoengineering-trick-to-cool-brutal-heat-could-spike-temperature-elsewhere-scientists-say"},"modified":"2024-06-23T00:28:16","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T05:28:16","slug":"oops-geoengineering-trick-to-cool-brutal-heat-could-spike-temperature-elsewhere-scientists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/oops-geoengineering-trick-to-cool-brutal-heat-could-spike-temperature-elsewhere-scientists-say","title":{"rendered":"Oops! Geoengineering Trick to Cool Brutal Heat Could Spike Temperature Elsewhere, Scientists Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/oops-geoengineering-trick-to-cool-brutal-heat-could-spike-temperature-elsewhere-scientists-say2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers are warning that <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/tags\/geoengineering\" class=\"\">geoengineering<\/a> efforts to help cool temperatures in California could trigger heatwaves in Europe, a \u201cscary\u201d implication given the sheer lack of regulation controlling such measures across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/article\/2024\/jun\/21\/climate-engineering-off-us-coast-could-increase-heatwaves-in-europe-study-finds\" class=\"\"><em>The Guardian<\/em> reports<\/a>, scientists have suggested spraying aerosols into clouds over the ocean to cool down the surface below, a practice called \u201cmarine cloud brightening.\u201d As the name suggests, the idea is to brighten clouds to make them reflect more of the Sun\u2019s radiation back into space.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, a team of University of Washington researchers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/13\/climate\/cloud-brightening-geoengineering.html\" class=\"\">attempted<\/a> to do just that in the San Francisco Bay using a <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/halt-experiment-hack-climate\" class=\"\">machine that sprays tiny sea-salt particles<\/a>, amid criticism from environmentalists. The experiment was later <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/halt-experiment-hack-climate\" class=\"\">shut down by city officials<\/a>, citing health concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers are warning that geoengineering efforts to help cool temperatures in California could trigger heatwaves in Europe, a \u201cscary\u201d implication given the sheer lack of regulation controlling such measures across the globe. As The Guardian reports, scientists have suggested spraying aerosols into clouds over the ocean to cool down the surface below, a practice called [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1495,48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-health","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191643","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\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}