Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Van Ness, and every week I sit down for a 40-minute

conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.

On today's episode, I'm joined by Dr. Suchi Talati, a geoengineering governance fellow

with the Union of Concerned Scientists, where I ask her what exactly is geoengineering

anyway, and how can it save the world?

Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Van Ness. We had the most exciting guest this week,

and we met the most incredibly exciting way. If you picture it, it was Washington, D.C. I think I was

wearing a Leotard and a high-waisted skirt. It was a super cute skirt. It was a really cute skirt,

and I was minding my own business walking by the Capitol Building when I look up, and I see

Dr. Suchi Talati. And you're standing there, and I'm on these steps, and I think I was doing a

photo shoot, and you just so happened to walk right next to us at the right place, at the right.

And I was totally staring. But it was really just an incredible moment, because I think

Mother Nature or someone told me you need to talk to them, because that person has a story.

Next thing I knew we were talking, and my intuition couldn't have been firing on any more of

all cylinders. So basically, tell people what your title is, because it's not what I keep saying

it is, but you have a really incredible title. So I'm the geoengineering governance fellow at the

Union of Concern Scientists. Let's say it one more time. The Geoengineering governance fellow

at the Union of Concern Scientists. So Geoengineering is such like a $75 word.

It is a strange topic, but one that we definitely need to talk about. It's not strange. So an

engineer is... So an engineer is based... It's like a scientist, but it's more about applying the

science to the real world. And a geologist. So geologist studies the earth. And so

Geoengineering is kind of a misnomer. It's a set of approaches that are large-scale interventions

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