Manipulating the Weather | Interview: Dr. David Keith

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Dr. David Keith, professor of geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago and founder of Carbon Engineering, joins Jonah Goldberg to explain the controversy surrounding geoengineering. They brainstorm ways to decarbonize the economy, argue over the fine print of climate policy, and wonder if humanity can fix the planet without accidentally turning it into a giant Easy-Bake Oven. Show Notes:—Dr. Keith's bio The Remnant is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including access to all of Jonah’s G-File newsletters—click here. If you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member by clicking here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention.
0:18.0	Can you digger?
0:27.5	Greetings, dear listeners, this is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Remnant podcast for Rucky Weather
0:32.1	Dispatch and Dispatch Media.
0:34.8	This is a very exciting episode for me, or we'll see how exciting it is in retrospect.
0:40.6	But as a long-time listeners know, I've wanted certain, I call them my guys, right?
0:45.3	I wanted a rat guy on here to talk about rat stuff and I got that, but I need a new rat guy,
0:50.5	needed a dog guy, I got a dog gal to do that. I've wanted a geoengineering guy for a really long time.
0:57.9	And I kind of, by happenstance, bumped into this person at the Aspen Ideas Festival.
1:05.1	He actually introduced himself to me, which was very generous.
1:07.8	And I was, once I realized he wasn't one of the strange people at the Aspen
1:12.1	Ideas Festival and had like actually new things and was interesting, I started to get really
1:16.9	engaged in it. And I warned him that I might have him on my podcast or ask him to come on. And I told
1:22.0	him, I was like, I've always wanted a geoengineering guy. I did not know at the time that he's
1:25.6	kind of like the geoengineering guy, not just
1:28.3	a geoengineering guy.
1:30.3	We'll put his full bio in the notes, but in triumph of modesty, he just says, I should
1:36.8	introduce David Keith as a professor at the University of Chicago in geophysical sciences.
1:43.5	He got a physics degree from MIT. He knows
1:46.7	Earth things. So we'll get to all of that and do course. David, thank you so much for being here.
1:53.0	Thanks. I'm excited to be here. Looking forward to the conversation. As I was saying to you before we
1:57.3	started recording on a play on my normal opening question for authors,
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