{"id":4882,"date":"2007-04-13T17:22:21","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T17:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=4882"},"modified":"2007-04-13T17:22:21","modified_gmt":"2007-04-13T17:22:21","slug":"us-governement-to-fight-global-warming-with-futurama-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2007\/04\/us-governement-to-fight-global-warming-with-futurama-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"US Governement to Fight Global Warming with Futurama Plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life has become &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crimes_of_the_Hot\" class=\"external external_icon\">Crimes of the Hot<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"blocked\"><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"pic00112.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/images\/pic00112.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"136\" align=\"right\"\/>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. <a href=\"http:\/\/environment.guardian.co.uk\/climatechange\/story\/0,,1999968,00.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">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<\/a>, 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>Yes, I know it was also a Simpsons episode. I like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gotfuturama.com\/cgi-bin\/EpisodeReview.cgi?action=show&#038;Season=4&#038;Episode=08\" class=\"external external_icon\">Futurama<\/a> better.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/environment.guardian.co.uk\/climatechange\/story\/0,,1999968,00.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">guardian unlimited<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life has become &#8220;Crimes of the Hot.&#8221; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}