Climate Chat

In this Climate Chat episode, we will discuss how to electrify everything with inventor, author, and 2007 MacArthur "Genius" recipient Saul Griffith. The purpose of electrifying everything is to transition away from fossil fuels.

Saul Griffith is an engineer and inventor. As Founder and Chief Scientist at Otherlab, an independent R&D lab, he helps government agencies and Fortune 500 companies understand energy infrastructure and deep decarbonization. He’s been a principal investigator and project lead on federally-funded research projects for agencies including NASA, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-e), National Science Foundation and United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM). He is the author of Electrify and The Big Switch. He was awarded the MacArthur “Genius Grant” in 2007.

Saul's personal website: https://www.saulgriffith.com

Saul's Rewiring America organization: https://www.rewiringamerica.org

Saul's YouTube video on Electrifying Everything: https://youtu.be/Ju01tzpk4QY

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In this Climate Chat episode, we will discuss the benefits and risks of cooling the Earth by implementing solar geoengineering (a.k.a, Solar Radiation Management or Sunlight Reflection Methods - SRM) with Cornell climate scientist Daniele Visioni.

Daniele Visioni obtained his Ph.D. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics from the University of L’Aquila, in Italy, in 2018. He moved to Cornell in the same year, where he started as a Postdoctoral Associate in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. In 2022, he continued on as a Research Associate in the same department, and also became a Research Scientist I at the National Center for Atmospheric Science (NCAR). He joined EAS in the fall of 2023 as Assistant Professor, and retains a courtesy appointment as Affiliate Scientist at NCAR in the Atmospheric Chemistry, Observation and Modeling (ACOM) lab. He’s the co-chair of the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP), and has been a coauthor of the Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2022.

Daniele's Cornell web page: https://www.engineering.cornell.edu/faculty-directory/daniele-visioni

Daniele's GitHub page: https://dan-visioni.github.io

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Other Climate Chat programs on solar geoengineering:

Solar Geoengineering/Sunlight Reflection Methods: Safe, Effective, Needed? w/ Doug MacMartin

https://youtube.com/live/_JBLMsXNmhs

Climate Intervention with Climate Scientist David Keith

https://youtube.com/live/zg46s1Fa3nY

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In this Climate Chat episode, we will discuss the link between climate change and extreme weather including hurricanes, droughts and floods with UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain. Daniel also hosts the Weather West blog.

Dr. Daniel Swain is a climate scientist in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California, Los Angeles, and holds concurrent appointments as a Research Fellow in the Capacity Center for Climate and Weather Extremes at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

Daniel studies the changing character, causes, and impacts of extreme weather and climate events on a warming planet–with a particular focus on the physical processes leading to droughts, floods, and wildfires. He holds a PhD in Earth System Science from Stanford University and a B.S. in Atmospheric Science from the University of California, Davis.

Daniel’s Weather West blog: https://weatherwest.com

Daniel’s UCLA web page: https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/person/daniel-swain/

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In this Climate Chat episode, we will discuss the need for governance of both research and deployment of solar geoengineering, aka, Solar Radiation Management (SRM) with Cynthia Scharf who is senior advisor to the International Center for Future Generations, a European think tank, where she leads their work on climate intervention technologies.

Cynthia was previously the senior strategy director for the Carnegie Climate Governance (C2G) Initiative, which sought to advance policy discussions and international governance of solar geoengineering and large-scale carbon removals. Cynthia has written widely on these topics including in Foreign Policy, Science Magazine, and Fortune and spoken at the World Bank, the Vatican, American Geophysical Union, Columbia and Yale Universities, among others.

She previously served at the UN as the head of strategic climate communications and chief speechwriter on climate change for United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon from 2009-2016. She also supported and advised the Secretary-General during the UNFCCC negotiations, including the landmark Paris climate change agreement in 2015.

Cynthia received her M.A. from Georgetown, was a fellow at the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, and served on the board of GreenFaith, a multi-faith climate advocacy organization.

International Center for Future Generations: https://icfg.eu

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Related Climate Chat content:

Solar Geoengineering/Sunlight Reflection Methods: Safe, Effective, Needed? w/ Doug MacMartin

https://youtube.com/live/_JBLMsXNmhs

Climate Intervention with Climate Scientist David Keith

https://youtube.com/live/zg46s1Fa3nY

Climate Change and the Trolley Problem

https://youtube.com/live/sgs_tboPwvA

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In this Climate Chat episode, we will discuss the role of aerosols in the recent rapid acceleration of global warming as well as how aerosols have impacted warming since the industrial revolution. My guests for this discussion is climate scientist Leon Simons and Prof. Eliot Jacobson

Leon Simons is a climate scientist based in the Netherlands. He was a co-author with James Hansen on last year's "Global Warming in the Pipeline" paper that discussed the recent acceleration in global warming. Leon's work has focused recently on changes in aerosol emissions from ships and the impact of those changes on climate change. You can access Leon's research writings here:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Leon-Simons

Prof. Eliot Jacobson received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Arizona in 1983. He was a professor of mathematics at Ohio University from 1983 to 1998, getting tenure in 1989. From 1999 to 2009, he was a Visiting Associate Professor of Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara and this position turned into a full-time teaching (Lecturer) position. Prof. Jacobson then pursued his interest in gambling and became a consultant to the gambling industry.

While not a climate scientist, his interest in (and alarm of) climate change grew and Prof. Jacobson began writing about climate change on his website https://climatecasino.net

James Hansen's May 2024 update: "Comments on Global Warming Acceleration, Sulfur Emissions, Observations"

https://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2024/MayEmail.2024.05.16.pdf

Landmark "Global Warming in the Pipeline" paper by James Hansen, Leon Simons, and others:

https://academic.oup.com/oocc/article/3/1/kgad008/7335889

Climate Chat interview with James Hansen:

https://youtube.com/live/8Ag3UVSrlhE

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In this Climate Chat episode, we talk with Prime Coalition's Keri Browder about what Prime is doing to invest in more risky climate solution companies and how Prime's Project Frame is trying to make it easier for all investors to invest in effective climate solution companies.

As Prime Coalition’s Director of Impact Accountability and Director of Project Frame, Keri Browder creates opportunities for investors to share tools and best practices that catalyze, deepen, and accelerate diverse solutions that massively reduce GHG emissions.

An environmentalist at heart, Keri has dedicated her career to tackling tough problems. Before Prime, she led the expansion of global programs, including Ocean Conservancy’s Urban Ocean, Tetra Tech’s USAID WASH-FIN, and supported initiatives to protect voting rights in the U.S. and expand community-based policing reform in Colombia.

Her experiences emboldened her call to action against climate change and belief that partnership, investment, policy, and impact evaluation can work in concert to meet the challenge.

She holds a graduate certificate in Social Finance from Oxford University as well as undergraduate and graduate degrees in political science from the College of Charleston and Universidad de Los Andes.

Prime Coalition: https://www.primecoalition.org

Project Frame: https://projectframe.how

Prime Coalition on X/Twitter: @PRIMEcoalition

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In this Climate Chat episode, we talk with Make Sunsets co-founder Luke Iseman about his approach to "cooling the Earth" by launching balloons into the stratosphere with tiny amounts of sulfur in them. While purposefully putting sulfur into the stratosphere at large scale (called solar geoengineering or solar radiation management (SRM)) is proposed as way to offset global warming, many in the SRM community are opposed to Make Sunsets' "rouge" approach.

Before co-founding Make Sunsets, Luke founded a number of companies in the agriculture and smart home spaces and he was Director of Hardware at Y Combinator. Luke holds a BS in Economics from The Wharton School.

Make Sunsets website: https://makesunsets.com

Luke's homepage: https://lukeiseman.com

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In this Climate Chat episode, we interview climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe about how to engage the public and policymakers on climate action. We will discuss her book, "Saving Us," and talk about the state of climate and the actions needed to maintain a safe climate for future generations.

Katharine Hayhoe is an atmospheric scientist whose research focuses on understanding what climate change means for people and the places where we live. She is the Chief Scientist for The Nature Conservancy and a Horn Distinguished Professor and Endowed Professor of Public Policy and Public Law in the Dept. of Political Science at Texas Tech University. She is the author of the book “Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World,” has given a TED talk with over 4 million views, and she also hosts the PBS digital series Global Weirding. Katharine has been named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People, the United Nations Champion of the Environment, and the World Evangelical Alliance’s Climate Ambassador.

Katharine's home page: http://www.katharinehayhoe.com

Website for "Saving Us" book: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Saving-Us/Katharine-Hayhoe/9781982143848

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In this Climate Chat episode, we discuss Jevons Paradox and the related Rebound Effect. Jevons Paradox says the the more efficiently a resource is used, the more that resource will be used in total. This presents a challenge for climate solutions because it says that improving the energy efficiency of products will not necessarily result in lower energy use (in total) and may actually increase energy use! The Rebound Effect says that increases in efficiency do not result in the expected energy savings because the lower costs of using the more efficient product results in more total use of the product or that savings are used to buy or use other products or services that result in more energy usage than expected. The main difference between the Rebound Effect and Jevons Paradox is that the Rebound Effect applies to any reduction in expected energy savings while Jevons Paradox normally applies to reductions in energy savings that are more than 100% (i.e., energy increases). Efficiency improvements that result in increased total energy use are referred to as "Backfire."

Jevons Paradox on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

Rebound Effect on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebound_effect_(conservation)

We can stop the Rebound Effect by taxing the thing we don't want to expand. In the case of fossil fuels, this means putting a price on carbon. The best way to do that is the "Fee and Dividend" policy. Here is my TEDx talk on that:

https://youtu.be/0k2-SzlDGko

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In this Climate Chat episode, we speak with Stanford climate scientist Rob Jackson about his new book "Into the Clear Blue Sky" in which he describes how we can restore the atmosphere to near pre-industrial condition. We will discuss methane, CO2 and other greenhouse gases that are too plentiful today and how we can get back to a safe climate.

Rob Jackson is the Chair of the Global Carbon Project, a Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Woods Institute for the Environment and Precourt Institute for Energy, and a professor of earth science at Stanford University. Through global scientific leadership and groundbreaking research, communications, and policy activities, Jackson’s work has reduced millions of tons of greenhouse gas emissions and improved human health, safety, and air and water quality. One of the top five most-cited climate and environmental scientists in the world, he has authored more than 400 peer-reviewed publications, and his writings have appeared in many outlets, including The New York Times, Scientific American, and The Washington Post. Jackson lives in Stanford, California.

Rob's Stanford profile: https://profiles.stanford.edu/jackson

Rob's personal/book website: https://intotheclear.com

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