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Challenges of Engineering Climate Change | Civic Center

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Thursday, April 21, 2011 - 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm | Cost: FREE
SF Public Library Main Branch - Latino/Hispanic Room B | 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA

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By now, humans know we’ve changed Earth’s climate for the worse. Is it time to try to change it back with some large-scale climate geoengineering?

These methods include ocean iron fertilization, stratospheric sulfate injection, marine cloud seeding, air capture, and the use of planetary sunshades, all of which have the potential to substantially improve, or reverse, current warming trends.

Panel of Climate Geoengineering Experts…

  • Wil Burns (visiting Professor, Monterey Institute of International Studies of Middlebury College)
  • Dan Whaley (Planktos)
  • Ken Caldeira (Carnegie Institute, Stanford University)

Brought to discuss…

  • The potential benefits of climate geoengineering and negative impacts.
  • How research and deployment should be governed, including voluntary scientific codes of conduct.
  • Ethical issues: could it create a “moral hazard” problem, i.e. divert attention from reducing greenhouse gas emissions?

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Cost: FREE
Categories: Event, Geek Event, Lectures & Workshops, San Francisco
Venue: SF Public Library Main Branch - Latino/Hispanic Room B
Address: 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA