{"id":9777,"date":"2007-01-30T13:54:12","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T18:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/9777.html"},"modified":"2007-01-30T13:54:12","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T18:54:12","slug":"giant-mirrors-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/giant-mirrors-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Giant mirrors in space&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silly me, I&#8217;ve suggested on more than one occasion that the Bush administration doesn&#8217;t take global warming seriously and has no feasible plan to address the crisis. How wrong I was.<\/p>\n<p>Brad Plumer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/blog\/theplank?pid=76046\">notes<\/a> this fascinating item from the Guardian about a <a href=\"http:\/\/environment.guardian.co.uk\/climatechange\/story\/0,,1999968,00.html\">low-profile strategy<\/a> that was crafted behind the scenes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The US government wants the world&#8217;s scientists to develop technology to block sunlight as a last-ditch way to halt global warming, the Guardian has learned. It says research into techniques such as giant mirrors in space or reflective dust pumped into the atmosphere would be &#8220;important insurance&#8221; against rising emissions, and has lobbied for such a strategy to be recommended by a major UN report on climate change, the first part of which will be published on Friday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmm, blocking sunlight&#8230; I seem to recall an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Who_Shot_Mr._Burns%3F\">episode of The Simpsons<\/a> on this very subject.<\/p>\n<p>Meet the administration&#8217;s new climate change czar: C. Montgomery Burns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silly me, I&#8217;ve suggested on more than one occasion that the Bush administration doesn&#8217;t take global warming seriously and has no feasible plan to address the crisis. How wrong I was. Brad Plumer notes this fascinating item from the Guardian about a low-profile strategy that was crafted behind the scenes. The US government wants the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}