{"id":85405,"date":"2018-12-02T20:03:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T04:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/harvard-scientists-to-release-sun-dimming-sky-chemical-in-2019"},"modified":"2018-12-02T20:03:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T04:03:40","slug":"harvard-scientists-to-release-sun-dimming-sky-chemical-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/harvard-scientists-to-release-sun-dimming-sky-chemical-in-2019","title":{"rendered":"Harvard Scientists to Release Sun-Dimming Sky Chemical in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/harvard-scientists-to-release-sun-dimming-sky-chemical-in-2019.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Critics say that geoengineering efforts are Band-Aid solutions that treat the symptoms of climate change instead of the cause: global carbon emissions. Jim Thomas, the co-executive director of an environmental advocacy organization called the ETC Group, told <em>Nature<\/em> that he fears the Harvard project could push the concept of geoengineering into the mainstream.<\/p>\n<p>But advocates say that anything that could buy some extra time in the face of looming climate catastrophe is worth exploring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m studying a chemical substance,\u201d Harvard researcher Zhen Dai told <em>Nature<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s not like it\u2019s a nuclear bomb.\u201d<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/sun-dimming-sky-chemical-geoengineering\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/sun-dimming-sky-chemical-geoengineering<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics say that geoengineering efforts are Band-Aid solutions that treat the symptoms of climate change instead of the cause: global carbon emissions. Jim Thomas, the co-executive director of an environmental advocacy organization called the ETC Group, told Nature that he fears the Harvard project could push the concept of geoengineering into the mainstream. But advocates [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,38,9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-engineering","category-military","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85405","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}