{"id":3044,"date":"2018-04-04T20:14:09","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T20:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/?p=3044"},"modified":"2018-04-04T20:14:09","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T20:14:09","slug":"geoengineering-the-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/2018\/04\/04\/geoengineering-the-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"Geoengineering the Climate"},"content":{"rendered":"

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KGNU’s\u00a0How on Earth<\/a>
\nApril 3, 2018<\/p>\n

Hacking the Planet<\/strong>\u00a0(start time: 10:24):
\nIt\u2019s tough to wrap one\u2019s mind around just how monumental and consequential the problem of climate change is.\u00a0So dire that scientist and engineers for years have been exploring ways to \u201chack\u201d the planet\u2013to manipulate the global climate system enough to significantly reduce planet-warming gases or increase the Earth\u2019s ability to reflect solar radiation. This audacious scheme, called geoengineering, only exists because many scientists think that human behavioral change, industry regulations, international treaties and national legislation, have not done enough \u2014\u00a0can<\/i>\u00a0not do enough \u2013 to keep us from careening toward climate catastrophe.<\/p>\n

Guests today have given this huge challenge a lot of thought and some research. Dr. Lisa Dilling<\/a>\u00a0is an associate professor of Environmental Studies at CU Boulder and a fellow at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, or\u00a0CIRES<\/a>.\u00a0Dr. David Fahey<\/a>\u00a0is a physicist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or\u00a0NOAA<\/a>. \u00a0He directs the Chemical Sciences Division at NOAA\u2019s\u00a0Earth System Research Lab<\/a>\u00a0in Boulder.<\/p>\n

Some relevant materials on geoengineering:<\/p>\n