How to cool the planet: geoengineering and the audacious quest to fix the earth's climate
Sam Doust and Jeff Goodell
Wednesday 21 July
6.00 - 7.30pm
The Science Exchange
Free but booking essential
Right now, a group of scientists is working on ways to minimize the catastrophic impact of global warming. But they're not designing hybrids or fuel cells or wind turbines. They're trying to lower the temperature of the entire planet. And they're doing it with huge contraptions that suck CO2 from the air, machines that brighten clouds and deflect sunlight away from earth, even artificial volcanoes that spray heat-reflecting particles into the atmosphere. This is the field of geoengineering, which - seen as fringe science, the realm of sci-fi only a few years ago - is now a serious topic of research in labs across the globe. But what price will resetting the thermostat come at? Join us as author Jeff Goodell and Sam Doust from the ABC's project Bluebird explore just what it might take to engineer a solution to climate change.
An RiAus Book Club event.
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