{"id":3520,"date":"2009-09-14T16:46:52","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T16:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2009\/09\/some-opinions-on-geoengineering\/"},"modified":"2009-09-14T16:46:52","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T16:46:52","slug":"some-opinions-on-geoengineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2009\/09\/some-opinions-on-geoengineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Some opinions on geoengineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"float: left; padding: 5px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/chrisicon2.jpg\" width=\"49\" height=\"50\" alt=\"A post by Chris Rowan\"\/><\/span>It seems that you can&#8217;t look anywhere at the moment without seeing a report discussing the potential of &#8216;geoengineering&#8217; our way out of climate change. Perhaps the most media impact was made by the <a href=http:\/\/royalsociety.org\/document.asp?tip=0&#038;id=8729>Royal Society&#8217;s largely sensible analysis<\/a>, which has been <a href=http:\/\/seedmagazine.com\/content\/article\/next_steps_for_geoengineering\/>nicely summarised for SEED by James Wilsdon<\/a>.<br \/>\nAs one of SEED&#8217;s tame geobloggers, I was also invited to respond to this commentary , and <a href=http:\/\/seedmagazine.com\/content\/article\/business_as_abnormal\/>you can read my thoughts here<\/a>. You&#8217;ll see that I worry that the whole debate has become a bit of a distraction what must be our long-term goal of creating a truly sustainable civilisation.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll use my soapbox here to add that some of the proposed options, particularly those that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, might potentially play a role in the medium to long term if we stabilise atmospheric CO2 levels too close to a potential tipping point for comfort. In the short-term, though &#8211; by which I mean the next couple of decades &#8211; we really should turn our eyes away from the shiny technological &#8220;fixes&#8221; being dangled before us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>including mine.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2009\/09\/some-opinions-on-geoengineering\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,22,7],"tags":[150],"class_list":["post-3520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-science","category-environment","category-links","tag-geoengineering-climate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}