{"id":608363,"date":"2019-04-18T08:24:06","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T12:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=9571751aaf6677e9703da5d4e61de85f"},"modified":"2019-04-18T08:24:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T12:24:06","slug":"new-carbon-dioxide-capture-technology-is-not-the-magic-bullet-against-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=608363","title":{"rendered":"New carbon dioxide capture technology is not the magic bullet against climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent major UN report, if we are to limit temperature rise to 1.5 \u00b0C and prevent the most catastrophic effects of climate change, we need to reduce global CO\u2082 emissions to net zero by 2050. This means eliminating fossil fuel use fast \u2013 but to cushion that transition and offset the areas in which there is currently no replacement for combustibles, we need to actively remove CO\u2082 from the atmosphere. Planting trees and rewilding are a large part of this solution, but we are highly likely to need further technological assistance if we are to prevent climate breakdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent major UN report, if we are to limit temperature rise to 1.5 &deg;C and prevent the most catastrophic effects of climate change, we need to reduce global CO&#8322; emissions to net zero by 2050. This means eliminating fossil fuel use fast &ndash; but to cushion that transition and offset the areas in which there is currently no replacement for combustibles, we need to actively remove CO&#8322; from the atmosphere. Planting trees and rewilding are a large part of this solution, but we are highly likely to need further technological assistance if we are to prevent climate breakdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=608363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608364,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608363\/revisions\/608364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}