{"id":1430,"date":"2009-04-08T16:13:33","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T23:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2009-04-08T16:13:33","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T23:13:33","slug":"obama-science-advisor-advocates-climate-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/climate-change\/obama-science-advisor-advocates-climate-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama science advisor advocates climate engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"
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John Holdren as director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy is President Obama's science advisor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In an\u00a0interview with the Associated Press<\/a>, John Holdren, President Obama\u2019s newly confirmed science advisor, discussed the possibility of \u2018climate engineering\u2019 to battle global warming.\u00a0 The radical and somewhat controversial technology would require an extraordinary intervention by man in an attempt to purposely influence the climate.<\/p>\n

Mr. Holdren feels however the dangers of climate change could leave Earth with little choice.\u00a0 He is quoted as saying, \u201cIt’s got to be looked at.\u00a0 We don’t have the luxury of taking any approach off the table.”<\/p>\n

Climate engineering, or geoengineering, could theoretically be accomplished a number of ways.\u00a0 Most currently studied techniques revolve around attempts to counteract greenhouse gases, specifically carbon dioxide, which is believe to be responsible for global warming.\u00a0 Technology to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere called \u2018air scrubbing\u2019 is one alternative the administration is supposedly considering.\u00a0 Another extreme option would be to purposely inject pollution into the atmosphere to reflect the sun\u2019s rays.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Prior to his nomination, Holdren was a physicist and professor at Harvard.\u00a0 He has long sounded the alarm of manmade climate change saying global warming is like being “in a car with bad brakes driving toward a cliff in the fog.”\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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In an\u00a0interview with the Associated Press, John Holdren, President Obama\u2019s newly confirmed science advisor, discussed the possibility of \u2018climate engineering\u2019 to battle global warming.\u00a0 The radical and somewhat controversial technology would require an extraordinary intervention by man in an attempt to purposely influence the climate. Mr. Holdren feels however the dangers of climate change could … Continue reading Obama science advisor advocates climate engineering<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[736,249,250,248,247],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1433,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions\/1433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}