{"id":96,"date":"2007-10-02T13:21:46","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T20:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=96"},"modified":"2017-04-30T02:06:58","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T09:06:58","slug":"geoengineering-a-cure-for-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/geoengineering-a-cure-for-global-warming","title":{"rendered":"Geoengineering: A Cure for Global Warming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><IMG src=\"\"><BR><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE>Two of Britain\u2019s leading environmental thinkers say it is time to develop a quick technical fix for climate change. Writing in the journal Nature, Science Museum head Chris Rapley and Gaia theorist James Lovelock suggest looking at boosting ocean take-up of CO2.<br \/> \u2026<br \/> Floating pipes reaching down from the top of the ocean into colder water below move up and down with the swell. <\/p>\n<p>As the pipe moves down, cold water flows up and out onto the ocean surface. A simple valve blocks any downward flow when the pipe is moving upwards. <\/p>\n<p>Colder water is more \u201cproductive\u201d \u2014 it contains more life, and so in principle can absorb more carbon. <\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n<p>Finally some practical solutions are being introduced to mitigate global warming. The BBC article mention the US company, <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.atmocean.com\/\">Atmocean<\/A>, that is already testing such a system.<\/p>\n<p>Read the articles from <A HREF=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/7014503.stm\">BBC<\/A> or the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/01\/from-gaia-to-geoengineering-a-radical-cure-for-global-warming\/\">New York Times<\/A> based on the same article from <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/2007\/070924\/full\/070924-8.html\">Nature<\/A>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of Britain\u2019s leading environmental thinkers say it is time to develop a quick technical fix for climate change. Writing in the journal Nature, Science Museum head Chris Rapley and Gaia theorist James Lovelock suggest looking at boosting ocean take-up of CO2. \u2026 Floating pipes reaching down from the top of the ocean into colder [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57130,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/57130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}