{"id":23667,"date":"2022-10-01T20:11:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T03:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=23667"},"modified":"2022-10-01T20:11:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T03:11:45","slug":"earth-still-careening-headlong-into-climate-catastrophe-says-nasa-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2022\/10\/01\/earth-still-careening-headlong-into-climate-catastrophe-says-nasa-scientist\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Still &#8220;Careening Headlong into Climate Catastrophe,&#8221; Says NASA Scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Asteroid Diversion? Earth Still &quot;Careening Headlong into Climate Catastrophe,&quot; Says NASA Scientist\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kUSqdHESQfc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/DemocracyNow\">Democracy Now!<\/a> Sep 28, 2022 NASA successfully crashed a robotic spacecraft into an asteroid this week, a first-of-its-kind test of technology that could prevent a comet or asteroid from hitting the Earth, though the chances of such a catastrophe are low. We speak with NASA climate scientist Peter Kalmus, who calls the successful mission &#8220;bittersweet.&#8221; &#8220;We&#8217;re doing these amazing missions like redirecting asteroids, and yet with all that technology, with all that knowledge, somehow it&#8217;s not translating into stopping what is clearly the biggest threat facing humanity, which is global heating,&#8221; says Kalmus. Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbmxvV0Vhc2dCUFZZZnQ4LXNlcXI1a2twN2ZaZ3xBQ3Jtc0ttRGhDMWdmb29VUEdWQUg2QXBBalJZVDBlV0llRnhRbENNRTVCUF92OV91RkhTdkgzUDdUb2RBWnNLRS1Vc2d0VmtlLVhwRVJXUnFWY2c0amdmQ1FJdm5YQWpfeDRKZHhhZWxWNmZuNlZEaXRQZnpjbw&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fdemocracynow.org%2F&amp;v=kUSqdHESQfc\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/democracynow.org<\/a> Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. 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Sep 28, 2022 NASA successfully crashed a robotic spacecraft into an asteroid this week, a first-of-its-kind test of technology that could prevent a comet or asteroid from hitting the Earth, though the chances of such a catastrophe are low. We speak with NASA climate scientist Peter Kalmus, who&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2022\/10\/01\/earth-still-careening-headlong-into-climate-catastrophe-says-nasa-scientist\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23669,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23667\/revisions\/23669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}