79 Ken Caldeira - Can Geoengineering Save the Planet?

Inquiring Minds

Science, Society & Culture, Neuroscience, Female Host, Interview, Social Sciences, Critical Thinking

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🗓️ 27 March 2015

⏱️ 65 minutes

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On the show this week we talk to Ken Caldeira, a climate scientist working for the Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Global Ecology at Stanford University. He investigates issues related to climate, carbon, and energy systems.In the interview, we focus on geoengineering—the process of making big changes to the Earth’s climatic system in an attempt to solve issues related to climate change.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

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1:29.7	A few weeks back, the National Research Council released two reports on geoengineering. And by geoengineering,
1:35.5	I mean any of these large-scale attempts to alter Earth's natural systems largely to reduce the
1:43.6	impacts of climate change. And those reports were focused on carbon
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