{"id":5573,"date":"2015-02-11T07:13:20","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T12:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5573"},"modified":"2015-02-11T07:13:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T12:13:20","slug":"panel-urges-research-on-geoengineering-as-a-tool-against-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5573","title":{"rendered":"Panel Urges Research on Geoengineering as a Tool Against Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 id=\"story-heading\" class=\"story-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/02\/11\/science\/panel-urges-more-research-on-geoengineering-as-a-tool-against-climate-change.html?hpw&amp;rref=science&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;module=well-region&amp;region=bottom-well&amp;WT.nav=bottom-well&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Panel Urges Research on Geoengineering as a Tool Against Climate Change<\/a><\/h3>\n<p id=\"story-continues-1\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"262\" data-total-count=\"262\">With the planet facing potentially severe impacts from\u00a0<a title=\"Recent and archival news about global warming.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/science\/topics\/globalwarming\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\">global warming<\/a>\u00a0in coming decades, a government-sponsored scientific panel on Tuesday called for more research on geoengineering \u2014 technologies to deliberately intervene in nature to counter<a class=\"meta-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival news about global warming.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/science\/topics\/globalwarming\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\">climate change<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"178\" data-total-count=\"440\">The panel said the research could include small-scale outdoor experiments, which many scientists say are necessary to better understand whether and how geoengineering would work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"190\" data-total-count=\"630\">Some environmental groups and others say that such projects could have unintended damaging effects, and could set society on an unstoppable path to full-scale deployment of the technologies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"186\" data-total-count=\"816\">But the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasonline.org\/\">National Academy of Sciences<\/a>\u00a0panel said that with proper governance, which it said needed to be developed, and other safeguards, such experiments should pose no significant risk.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-2\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"342\" data-total-count=\"1158\">In two widely anticipated reports, the panel \u2014 which was supported by NASA and other federal agencies, including what the reports described as the \u201cU.S. intelligence community\u201d \u2014 noted that drastically reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases was by far the best way to mitigate the effects of a warming planet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panel Urges Research on Geoengineering as a Tool Against Climate Change With the planet facing potentially severe impacts from\u00a0global warming\u00a0in coming decades, a government-sponsored scientific panel on Tuesday called for more research on geoengineering \u2014 technologies to deliberately intervene in nature to counterclimate change. 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