{"653786":{"#nid":"653786","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Geoengineering: We should not play dice with the planet","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EScience fiction-like technology fixes for global warming\u0026nbsp;like \u0026quot;solar geoengineering,\u0026quot; which involve cooling off the planet by dumping vast amounts of chemicals into the upper atmosphere, could backfire with potentially disastrous side effects. So says\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/cobb-dr-kim\u0022\u003EKim Cobb\u003C\/a\u003E, Georgia Power Chair and ADVANCE Professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, and director\u0026nbsp;of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/globalchange.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGlobal Change Program\u003C\/a\u003E. Cobb, who\u0026nbsp;was a lead author on the recent UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/report\/ar6\/wg1\/\u0022\u003ESixth Assessment Report\u003C\/a\u003E, writes in this op-ed (shared\u0026nbsp;with colleague Michael E. Mann from Penn State University) that while \u0026quot;this is the time to apply bold, creative thinking to accelerate progress toward climate stability, this is not the time to play fast and loose with the planet, in service of any agenda, be it political or scientific in nature.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2021-12-16 21:23:46","changed_gmt":"2021-12-16 21:23:46","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/energy-environment\/576279-geoengineering-we-should-not-play-dice-with-the-planet","dateline":{"date":"2021-12-12T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2021-12-12T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"EAS"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"33791","name":"kim cobb"},{"id":"183576","name":"solar geoengineering"},{"id":"831","name":"climate change"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}