{"id":1849,"date":"2014-06-04T17:01:03","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T22:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=1849"},"modified":"2014-06-04T17:01:03","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T22:01:03","slug":"is-there-a-place-for-climate-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/is-there-a-place-for-climate-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Is there a place for climate engineering?<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">While there is no substitute for lowering our emissions, some climate engineering approaches are more promising than others, according to a new analysis.\u00a0<\/span>Climate engineering refers to strategies that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and\/or reduce solar input, as opposed to preventing new emissions.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from a variety of disciplines developed criteria to rank such strategies on everything from technical feasibility to cost, ecological impact, public acceptance and ethics. They found that some approaches &#8211; like forest and soil management &#8211; merit broad-scale application, but others &#8211; such as iron fertilization of the oceans &#8211; have more negative than positive impacts.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esajournals.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1890\/130030\" target=\"_blank\"><span>Original research paper<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the the journal\u00a0<em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment<\/span>\u00a0in<\/em>\u00a0<strong>June,\u00a02014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rem.sfu.ca\/people\/faculty\/jaxsen\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jonn Axsen<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While there is no substitute for lowering our emissions, some climate engineering approaches are more promising than others, according to a new analysis.\u00a0Climate engineering refers to strategies that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and\/or reduce solar input, as opposed to preventing new emissions. Researchers from a variety of disciplines developed criteria to rank such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[31,1712,1453,215],"class_list":["post-1849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-engineering","tag-engineering","tag-environment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-tP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1850,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions\/1850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}