{"id":21680,"date":"2018-12-11T14:56:51","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T14:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/29601\/Planet-Hacking-Became-More-Urgent-And-Terrifying-Than-Ever-This-Year.html"},"modified":"2018-12-11T14:56:51","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T14:56:51","slug":"planet-hacking-became-more-urgent-and-terrifying-than-ever-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/planet-hacking-became-more-urgent-and-terrifying-than-ever-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Planet-Hacking Became More Urgent And Terrifying Than Ever This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-wrapper lazy-image\">\n<div class=\"img-permalink-sub-wrapper\"><span class=\"js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/s--MckP-hNJ--\/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800\/eyyo3lsbxizqa3kosnuu.jpg\" class=\"lazyload ls-lazy-image-tag\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-width=\"2000\" data-chomp-id=\"eyyo3lsbxizqa3kosnuu\" data-format=\"jpg\"\/><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Photo: Getty<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"js_storytype-boilerplate storytype-boilerplate\">\n<div class=\"content-summary__SummaryBox\"><span class=\"textbox-shadow content-summary__ShadowBox\" title=\"Year In Review\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"content-summary__Image\" src=\"https:\/\/x.kinja-static.com\/assets\/images\/logos\/placeholders\/gizmodo-saturated.png\"\/><\/span><span class=\"content-summary__Side\"><span class=\"content-summary__Title\">Year In Review<\/span><span class=\"content-summary__Description ellipsis\">We look back at the best, worst, and most significant moments of the year, and look forward to next year.<\/span> <span class=\"content-summary__Description\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"content-summary__Description\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Somewhere between a <a href=\"https:\/\/earther.gizmodo.com\/no-scientists-didn-t-just-suggest-we-dim-the-sun-to-1830663461#_ga=2.147746419.536271150.1543370535-1380705430.1543192400\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\"window.ga('send', 'event', 'Embedded Url', 'Internal link', 'https:\/\/earther.gizmodo.com\/no-scientists-didn-t-just-suggest-we-dim-the-sun-to-1830663461#_ga=2.147746419.536271150.1543370535-1380705430.1543192400', {metric25:1})\">viral fake story<\/a> about Harvard researchers suggesting we \u2018dim the sun\u2019, and a <a href=\"https:\/\/earther.gizmodo.com\/were-now-seriously-considering-geoengineering-coral-ree-1830716045\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\"window.ga('send', 'event', 'Embedded Url', 'Internal link', 'https:\/\/earther.gizmodo.com\/were-now-seriously-considering-geoengineering-coral-ree-1830716045', {metric25:1})\">major, government-funded report<\/a> laying out how we might re-engineer the oceans to save coral reefs, it hit me last month: This whole geoengineering idea has become suddenly, frighteningly mainstream.<\/p>\n<p>Geoengineering\u2014a grab bag of ways we could use technology to essentially hack the planet and cool if off\u2014isn\u2019t a new concept. Various ideas have been around since the 1960s and \u201870s, but the subject has long languished on the fringes of the scientific discourse. In recent years, though, interest in geoengineering has snowballed, and it reached new heights in 2018 with a series of media blitzes, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/volumes\/560\/issues\/7719\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" onclick=\"window.ga('send', 'event', 'Embedded Url', 'External link', 'https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/volumes\/560\/issues\/7719', {metric25:1})\">cover story in <em>Nature<\/em><\/a>, and a small-but-auspicious mention in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/sr15\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" onclick=\"window.ga('send', 'event', 'Embedded Url', 'External link', 'https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/sr15\/', {metric25:1})\">major new UN climate report<\/a>. (More on that last one in a moment.)<\/p>\n<div id=\"swappable-mobile-ad-container\" class=\"js_ad-mobile-dynamic swappable-mobile-ad-container js_ad-dynamic ad-mobile-dynamic movable-ad\">\n<div class=\"ad-unit ad-mobile\">\n<div class=\"ad-mobile-inner\">\n<p class=\"ad-label proxima\"><small class=\"proxima\">Advertisement<\/small><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The concept that continued to garner the lion\u2019s share of the headlines and research interest in 2018 was solar geoengineering\u2014specifically, a flavor known as stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) wherein we mist the upper atmosphere with small, reflective particles to bounce more sunlight back into space. There\u2019s now <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/why-the-scariest-response-to-climate-change-is-finally-1794307922#_ga=2.139338103.536271150.1543370535-1380705430.1543192400\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" onclick=\"window.ga('send', 'event', 'Embedded Url', 'Internal link', 'https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/why-the-scariest-response-to-climate-change-is-finally-1794307922#_ga=2.139338103.536271150.1543370535-1380705430.1543192400', {metric25:1})\">an entire research program<\/a> at Harvard devoted to the subject, and plans are being drawn up for a possible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/2018\/11\/30\/18117858\/geoengineering-harvard-study-solar-particles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" onclick=\"window.ga('send', 'event', 'Embedded Url', 'External link', 'https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/2018\/11\/30\/18117858\/geoengineering-harvard-study-solar-particles', {metric25:1})\">small-scale field experiment in 2019<\/a>. But other once-science fictional ideas made waves in the media this year, too.<\/p>\n<p>There was a paper suggesting we <a href=\"https:\/\/earther.gizmodo.com\/earth-scientists-propose-giant-wall-to-stop-antarctic-i-1829202319\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\"window.ga('send', 'event', 'Embedded Url', 'Internal link', 'https:\/\/earther.gizmodo.com\/earth-scientists-propose-giant-wall-to-stop-antarctic-i-1829202319', {metric25:1})\">build a giant wall<\/a> to prevent the Antarctic ice sheet from collapsing. There\u2019s now a serious\u2014if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2018\/jan\/21\/millions-spent-on-great-barrier-reef-projects-against-expert-advice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" onclick=\"window.ga('send', 'event', 'Embedded Url', 'External link', 'https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2018\/jan\/21\/millions-spent-on-great-barrier-reef-projects-against-expert-advice', {metric25:1})\">heavily criticized<\/a>\u2014proposal to cool the Great Barrier Reef by pumping deep ocean water onto its banks. As a National Academies of Sciences report made clear this year, \u2018negative emissions technologies\u2019 aka <a href=\"https:\/\/earther.gizmodo.com\/the-alluring-dream-of-carbon-capture-1826830310\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\"window.ga('send', 'event', 'Embedded Url', 'Internal link', 'https:\/\/earther.gizmodo.com\/the-alluring-dream-of-carbon-capture-1826830310', {metric25:1})\">sucking carbon out of the sky<\/a>, will <a href=\"https:\/\/earther.gizmodo.com\/new-report-lays-out-a-plan-to-suck-carbon-out-of-the-sk-1829964861#_ga=2.82332242.536271150.1543370535-1380705430.1543192400\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\"window.ga('send', 'event', 'Embedded Url', 'Internal link', 'https:\/\/earther.gizmodo.com\/new-report-lays-out-a-plan-to-suck-carbon-out-of-the-sk-1829964861#_ga=2.82332242.536271150.1543370535-1380705430.1543192400', {metric25:1})\">have to play a role in addressing climate change<\/a> to offset future emissions from sectors like agriculture. That\u2019s arguably a form of geoengineering, too. While these proposals run the gamut from borderline fantasy to <a href=\"https:\/\/earther.gizmodo.com\/y-combinator-is-funding-some-seriously-wild-ideas-for-s-1830025335#_ga=2.182922850.536271150.1543370535-1380705430.1543192400\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\"window.ga('send', 'event', 'Embedded Url', 'Internal link', 'https:\/\/earther.gizmodo.com\/y-combinator-is-funding-some-seriously-wild-ideas-for-s-1830025335#_ga=2.182922850.536271150.1543370535-1380705430.1543192400', {metric25:1})\">Y-combinator investment opportunities<\/a>, the sheer breadth of ideas and the power players behind them make it clear planet hacking is a now a pillar of the mainstream climate conversation.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s equally clear that we need to have that conversation very, very carefully.<\/p>\n<p>As study after study noted this year, solar engineering could have unintended and <a href=\"https:\/\/earther.gizmodo.com\/yet-another-reason-geoengineering-wont-save-us-1828194977\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\"window.ga('send', 'event', 'Embedded Url', 'Internal link', 'https:\/\/earther.gizmodo.com\/yet-another-reason-geoengineering-wont-save-us-1828194977', {metric25:1})\">potentially devastating<\/a> side effects. There\u2019s also a danger of geoengineering being presented as a silver bullet solution to climate change (it isn\u2019t), thus eliminating already-fragile governmental ambition to rein in carbon emissions. If we can spray the skies and stabilize global temperatures next year with a dozen planes and a few billion bucks, why <em>not<\/em> choose that option over (*checks notes on the bombshell UN climate report*) \u201crapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society\u201d?<strong>\u00a0<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"js_ad-mobile-dynamic js_ad-dynamic ad-mobile-dynamic movable-ad\">\n<div class=\"ad-unit ad-mobile\">\n<div class=\"ad-mobile-inner\">\n<p class=\"ad-label proxima\"><small class=\"proxima\">Advertisement<\/small><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The answer, of course, is that nothing about this is simple. SAI, for one, does nothing to reduce acidification of the oceans. Since it doesn\u2019t address our ever-rising carbon emissions so much as it smears sunscreen all over them, we\u2019d have to keep spraying forever if no other mitigation measures were taken. The aforementioned side effects? A <a href=\"https:\/\/news.agu.org\/press-release\/geoengineering-the-climate-would-reduce-vital-rains\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" onclick=\"window.ga('send', 'event', 'Embedded Url', 'External link', 'https:\/\/news.agu.org\/press-release\/geoengineering-the-climate-would-reduce-vital-rains\/', {metric25:1})\">potential drying up of vital monsoon rains<\/a> in Southeast Asia, or perhaps <a href=\"https:\/\/earther.gizmodo.com\/once-we-start-geoengineering-we-wont-be-able-to-stop-1822300410\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\"window.ga('send', 'event', 'Embedded Url', 'Internal link', 'https:\/\/earther.gizmodo.com\/once-we-start-geoengineering-we-wont-be-able-to-stop-1822300410', {metric25:1})\">the death of the Amazon rainforest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gernot Wagner, a social scientist at Harvard University who studies solar geoengineering, knows a little about how discussion of this topic can get distorted, having co-authored a study that went viral over Thanksgiving weekend when CNN packaged it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/11\/23\/health\/sun-dimming-aerosols-global-warming-intl-scli\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" onclick=\"window.ga('send', 'event', 'Embedded Url', 'External link', 'https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/11\/23\/health\/sun-dimming-aerosols-global-warming-intl-scli\/index.html', {metric25:1})\">under a headline<\/a> suggesting \u201cdimming the sun\u201d might be \u201cthe answer to global warming\u201d. (In fact, his paper made <a href=\"https:\/\/earther.gizmodo.com\/no-scientists-didn-t-just-suggest-we-dim-the-sun-to-1830663461\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\"window.ga('send', 'event', 'Embedded Url', 'Internal link', 'https:\/\/earther.gizmodo.com\/no-scientists-didn-t-just-suggest-we-dim-the-sun-to-1830663461', {metric25:1})\">no such suggestion<\/a>, and looked only at the very narrow question of how much it would cost to get an SAI program started.)<\/p>\n<p>Wagner hopes that as the idea of geoengineering becomes more mainstream, the public conversation can move beyond breathless headlines about scientists proposing wild experiments, and into the territory of \u201ccould this topic play in fact a role in a much broader climate policy portfolio.\u201d There\u2019s also a <a href=\"https:\/\/earther.gizmodo.com\/any-plan-to-geoengineer-the-planet-must-include-the-glo-1824283485#_ga=2.81823058.536271150.1543370535-1380705430.1543192400\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\"window.ga('send', 'event', 'Embedded Url', 'Internal link', 'https:\/\/earther.gizmodo.com\/any-plan-to-geoengineer-the-planet-must-include-the-glo-1824283485#_ga=2.81823058.536271150.1543370535-1380705430.1543192400', {metric25:1})\">huge conversation on governance<\/a> of geoengineering\u2014who would control and direct such an initiative\u2014we\u2019ve barely dipped our toes in.<\/p>\n<div class=\"js_ad-mobile-dynamic js_ad-dynamic ad-mobile-dynamic movable-ad\">\n<div class=\"ad-unit ad-mobile\">\n<div class=\"ad-mobile-inner\">\n<p class=\"ad-label proxima\"><small class=\"proxima\">Advertisement<\/small><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>And we may need to spin up those serious conversations sooner than later. Because if 2018 was a year in which geoengineering reached new levels of public awareness, it was also a year in which the urgency to do <em>something<\/em> to address climate change reached fever pitch. The aforementioned UN climate report, published in October, concluded we <a href=\"https:\/\/earther.gizmodo.com\/we-have-a-decade-to-prevent-a-total-climate-disaster-1829585748#_ga=2.85378653.536271150.1543370535-1380705430.1543192400\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\"window.ga('send', 'event', 'Embedded Url', 'Internal link', 'https:\/\/earther.gizmodo.com\/we-have-a-decade-to-prevent-a-total-climate-disaster-1829585748#_ga=2.85378653.536271150.1543370535-1380705430.1543192400', {metric25:1})\">have a little more than a decade<\/a> to dramatically phase down global fossil fuel consumption in order to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Beyond that, we lose most of the world\u2019s coral reefs and entire island nations start getting swallowed by the waves.<\/p>\n<p>But in a whisper that made few headlines, the report also said something else. Buried in a box in chapter 4, the UN report notes there\u2019s \u201chigh agreement\u201d that SAI could help limit warming to below 1.5 degrees Celsius. And we\u2019re approaching the point where we might just need all the help we can get.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE <a href=\"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/29601\/Planet-Hacking-Became-More-Urgent-And-Terrifying-Than-Ever-This-Year.html\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>READ MORE HERE&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[5089],"class_list":["post-21680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packet-storm","tag-headlinescience"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Planet-Hacking Became More Urgent And Terrifying Than Ever This Year 2026 | ThreatsHub Cybersecurity 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