{"id":86994,"date":"2019-01-24T14:42:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T22:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/first-geoengineering-experiment-to-dim-the-sun-on-track-for-2019"},"modified":"2019-01-24T14:42:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T22:42:24","slug":"first-geoengineering-experiment-to-dim-the-sun-on-track-for-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/first-geoengineering-experiment-to-dim-the-sun-on-track-for-2019","title":{"rendered":"First geoengineering experiment to dim the sun on track for 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-geoengineering-experiment-to-dim-the-sun-on-track-for-20193.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"399\" height=\"266\" style=\"display:none;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-geoengineering-experiment-to-dim-the-sun-on-track-for-20192.jpg\" \/> \u00a9 Getty Harvard scientists will attempt to replicate the climate-cooling effect of volcanic eruptions with a world-first solar geoengineering experiment set for early 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx) will inject calcium carbonate particles high above the earth in an attempt to reflect some of the sun\u2019s rays back into space.<\/p>\n<p>It will likely mark the first time the controversial concept of dimming the sun \u2014 more scientifically known as stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) \u2014 will be tested in the real world.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/science\/first-geoengineering-experiment-to-dim-the-sun-on-track-for-2019\/ar-BBQNiM8?ocid=sf#\">https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/science\/first-geoengineering-...8?ocid=sf#<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9 Getty Harvard scientists will attempt to replicate the climate-cooling effect of volcanic eruptions with a world-first solar geoengineering experiment set for early 2019. The Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx) will inject calcium carbonate particles high above the earth in an attempt to reflect some of the sun\u2019s rays back into space. It will likely [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,38,48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-engineering","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86994","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\/502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}