Today we travel to a future where humanity decides to pull the climate emergency break, and spray sulphuric acid into the upper atmosphere.

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Guests:

• Anthony Jones, climate model researcher at University of Exeter
• Jane Flegal, climate science and policy advisor, program officer at The Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust
• Kate Marvel, climate scientist at Columbia University and NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
• Romaric Odoulami, climate scientist at the University of Cape Town
• Prakash Kashwan, political scientist at the University of Connecticut

Further Reading:

• A critical look at geoengineering against climate change (David Keith TED Talk)
• Research on global sun block needed now
• Toward a Responsible Solar Geoengineering Research Program
• Benefits, risks, and costs of stratospheric geoengineering
• Stratospheric controlled perturbation experiment: a small-scale experiment to improve understanding of the risks of solar geoengineering
• Climate engineering needs a clean bill of health
• Climatic impacts of stratospheric geoengineering with sulfate, black carbon and titania injection
• Transient climate–carbon simulations of planetary geoengineering
• Regional Climate Impacts of Stabilizing Global Warming at 1.5 K Using Solar Geoengineering
• Sensitivity of volcanic aerosol dispersion to meteorological conditions: A Pinatubo case study
• Messing with nature? Exploring public perceptions of geoengineering in the UK
• Asymmetric forcing from stratospheric aerosols impacts Sahelian rainfall
• Crop yields in a geoengineered climate
• Recognitional Justice, Climate Engineering, and the Care Approach
• Engaging the Global South on climate engineering research
• Evoking equity as a rationale for solar geoengineering research? Scrutinizing emerging expert visions of equity.
• Forum on climate engineering
• Experiment Earth: Responsible innovation in geoengineering
• Ethics and geoengineering: reviewing the moral issues raised by solar radiation management and carbon dioxide removal
• Stratospheric aerosol injection research and existential risk
• India Should Demand International, Political Oversight for Geoengineering R&D
• Governing Solar Radiation Management: A Report from the Academic Working Group on Climate Engineering Governance

Actors:

• The Snowglobe Narrator: Brent Rose
• Lenny Haywood: Evan Johnson
• Farah Mousterian: Zahra Noorbakhsh, host of Good Muslim, Bad Muslim
• John Jacob Siwa: Joseph Jones
• Juana Aguilar: Tamara Krinsky
• Thor Surtr: Oliver Blank, host of The One that Got Away