{"id":522686,"date":"2010-04-09T13:22:02","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T17:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/intersection\/?p=7811"},"modified":"2010-04-09T13:22:02","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T17:22:02","slug":"new-point-of-inquiry-eli-kintisch%e2%80%93is-planet-hacking-inevitable-the-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/522686","title":{"rendered":"New Point of Inquiry: Eli Kintisch\u2013Is Planet-Hacking Inevitable? | The Intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"

The show just went up–you can stream the audio here and download to iTunes here. I have to say, I think this is the best episode of Point of Inquiry that I’ve hosted yet. But judge for yourself; here’s the write up:
\nFor two decades now, we\u2019ve failed to seriously address climate change. So the planet just keeps warming\u2014and it could get very bad. Picture major droughts, calving of gigantic ice sheets, increasingly dramatic sea level rise, and much more.
\nAgainst this backdrop, the idea of a technological fix to solve the problem\u2014like seeding the stratosphere with reflective sulfur particles, so as to reduce sunlight\u2014starts to sound pretty attractive. Interest in so-called \u201cgeoengineering\u201d is growing, and so is media attention to the idea. There are even conspiracy theorists who think a secret government plan to geoengineer the planet is already afoot.
\nLeading scientists, meanwhile, have begun to seriously study our geoengineering options\u2014not necessarily because they want to, but because they fear there may be no other choice.
\nThis week\u2019s Point of Inquiry guest, Eli Kintisch, has followed these scientists\u2019 endeavors\u2014and their ethical quandaries\u2014like perhaps no other journalist. He has broken stories about Bill Gates\u2019 funding of geoengineering research, DARPA\u2019s exploration of the idea, and …<\/p>\n

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The show just went up–you can stream the audio here and download to iTunes here. I have to say, I think this is the best episode of Point of Inquiry that I’ve hosted yet. But judge for yourself; here’s the write up: For two decades now, we\u2019ve failed to seriously address climate change. So the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}