49. Gwynne Dyer on Intervention Earth: climate mitigation, CDR & SRM

Challenging Climate

Our guest is Gwynne Dyer, an author, columnist, broadcaster and lecturer on international affairs. In this episode, we discuss the key messages from his new book Intervention Earth: Life-Saving Ideas from the World’s Climate Engineers, based on extensive interviews with the world’s top climate scientists. We discuss his insights from these interviews on the state of our climate, and address controversies and concerns over carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and solar radiation management (SRM).
Links:

• Gwynne Dyer’s profile
• Check out his new book, Intervention Earth: Life-Saving Ideas
• Check out this survey: World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target

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Chapitres

1. 49. Gwynne Dyer on Intervention Earth: climate mitigation, CDR & SRM (00:00:00)

2. Intro and background (00:00:42)

3. Key messages from his new book, Intervention Earth: Life-Saving Ideas from the World’s Climate Engineers (00:01:09)

4. Climate feedbacks: how do they occur and what are their impacts? (00:08:04)

5. Are climate scientists speaking the truth or self-censoring? (00:15:47)

6. Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR): Is this a realistic vision? (00:20:30)

7. Solar Radiation Modification (SRM): Where does SRM lie in the discourse? (00:25:11)

8. How have views on SRM changed since? (00:30:44)

9. International tensions over global consequences of SRM? (00:39:55)

10. What are 'planetary maintenance engineers'? (00:41:40)