{"id":1929,"date":"2021-06-23T07:07:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T05:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/23\/cloud-spraying-and-hurricane-slaying-how-ocean-geoengineering-became-the-frontier-of-the-climate-crisis\/"},"modified":"2021-06-23T07:07:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T05:07:44","slug":"cloud-spraying-and-hurricane-slaying-how-ocean-geoengineering-became-the-frontier-of-the-climate-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/23\/cloud-spraying-and-hurricane-slaying-how-ocean-geoengineering-became-the-frontier-of-the-climate-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud spraying and hurricane slaying: how ocean geoengineering became the frontier of the climate crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around the world, dozens of ingenious projects are trying to \u2018trick\u2019 the ocean into absorbing more CO<sub>2<\/sub>. But critics warn of unforeseen consequences<\/p>\n<p>Tom Green has a plan to tackle climate change. The British biologist and director of the charity Project Vesta wants to turn a trillion tonnes of CO<sub>2<\/sub> into rock, and sink it to the bottom of the sea.<\/p>\n<p>Green admits the idea is \u201caudacious\u201d. It would involve locking away atmospheric carbon by dropping pea-coloured sand into the ocean. The sand is made of ground olivine \u2013 an abundant volcanic rock, known to jewellers as peridot \u2013 and, if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.projectvesta.org\/#Vision\">Green\u2019s calculations<\/a> are correct, depositing it offshore on 2% of the world\u2019s coastlines would capture 100% of total global annual carbon emissions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2021\/jun\/23\/cloud-spraying-and-hurricane-slaying-could-geoengineering-fix-the-climate-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f30559df7e6b5387a1dbdca1e2c3da6f4bf14d46\/0_22_5390_3236\/master\/5390.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f2880887c202bd3231f8579203e03913\" title=\"Cloud spraying and hurricane slaying: how ocean geoengineering became the frontier of the climate crisis\" \/>Around the world, dozens of ingenious projects are trying to \u2018trick\u2019 the ocean into absorbing more CO2. But critics warn of unforeseen consequences<br \/>\nTom Green has a plan to tackle climate change. The British biologist and director of the charity Project Vesta wants to turn a trillion tonnes of CO2 into rock, and sink it to the bottom of the sea.<br \/>\nGreen admits the idea is \u201caudacious\u201d. It would involve locking away atmospheric carbon by dropping pea-coloured sand into the ocean. The sand is made of ground olivine \u2013 an abundant volcanic rock, known to jewellers as peridot \u2013 and, if Green\u2019s calculations are correct, depositing it offshore on 2% of the world\u2019s coastlines would capture 100% of total global annual carbon emissions. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around the world, dozens of ingenious projects are trying to \u2018trick\u2019 the ocean into absorbing more CO2. But critics warn of unforeseen consequences Tom Green has a plan to tackle climate change. The British biologist and director of the charity Project Vesta wants to turn a trillion tonnes of CO2 into rock, and sink it &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/23\/cloud-spraying-and-hurricane-slaying-how-ocean-geoengineering-became-the-frontier-of-the-climate-crisis\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cloud spraying and hurricane slaying: how ocean geoengineering became the frontier of the climate crisis<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}