Today’s guest is Dr. Shuchi Talati, a climate technology and governance expert and the founder of The Alliance for Just Deliberation on Solar Geoengineering. In this episode, we discuss ethics and governance of solar geoengineering, the formal cancellation of Harvard’s SCoPEx experiment, and the UN Environment Assembly deliberations on Solar Radiation Modification.

Links:

• Shuchi Talati’s profile
• The Alliance for Just Deliberation on Solar Geoengineering
• Check out this paper, Who Are the Engineers? Solar Geoengineering Research and Justice

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Today’s guest is Ulrike Lohmann, Professor of Experimental Atmospheric Physics in the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science at ETH Zurich. Lohmann is also the Principal Investigator of the CLOUDLAB project, a multi-year project to investigate aerosol-cloud interactions in wintertime stratus clouds over the Alps.

In this episode, we discuss the role of clouds and aerosols in our climate. We dive deep into aerosol-cloud interactions to uncover the science behind solar radiation modification (SRM) techniques like marine cloud brightening, and discuss a novel proposed SRM technique - Mixed Phase Cloud Thinning.

Links:

• Ulrike Lohmann’s profile
• Check out the CLOUDLAB project

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In this episode, we speak with Dr. Benjamin Sovacool and Dr. Chad Baum, about their newly published, high-impact paper, “Public Perceptions and Support of Climate Intervention Technologies across the Global North and Global South”. Join us as we discuss the key findings of their work, and how these findings can and should influence policy and governance methods.

Dr. Benjamin Sovacool is a professor with affiliations at Aarhus University, the University of Sussex and Boston University. Dr. Chad Baum is Assistant Professor at the Department of Business Development and Technology of Aarhus University.

Links:

• Ben Sovacool’s profile
• Chad Baum’s profile
• The GENIE project
• Their Nature paper, Public Perceptions and Support of Climate Intervention Technologies across the Global North and Global South and accessible summary
• Check out their paper on sentiments and emotions of climate tech on Twitter
• And another one on field testing radical climate interventions,
• And another one on co-impacts
• Also check out our related episode with Luke Iseman on Make Sunsets

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