{"id":533,"date":"2014-08-04T23:22:40","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T03:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=533"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:13:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:13:52","slug":"is-climate-engineering-effective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/08\/is-climate-engineering-effective\/","title":{"rendered":"Is climate engineering effective?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some scientists have proposed reducing the effects of a warming climate by using engineering approaches to combat the effects of increased greenhouse gas concentrations. \u00a0These approaches include planting more forests, fertilizing the ocean to increase the uptake of carbon through algae growth, and space mirrors to redirect solar energy away from the earth. \u00a0 But how effect are these approaches likely to be? \u00a0A new research study published in <em>Nature<\/em> magazine discusses the results of a computer modeling study which calculates the relative effects of using each of these geoengineering approaches to reduce global warming. \u00a0You can read the article by clicking <a title=\"Nature article on geoengineering effectiveness\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/ncomms\/2014\/140225\/ncomms4304\/full\/ncomms4304.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. \u00a0Unfortunately, even when these methods are used continuously over 50 years at reasonably large scales, warming is reduced by only about 8 percent or have unacceptably severe side effects. \u00a0This indicates that engineering attempts to reduce global warming may have very limited effectiveness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some scientists have proposed reducing the effects of a warming climate by using engineering approaches to combat the effects of increased greenhouse gas concentrations. \u00a0These approaches include planting more forests, fertilizing the ocean to increase the uptake of carbon through algae growth, and space mirrors to redirect solar energy away from the earth. \u00a0 But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22739,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/22739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}