Point of Inquiry

Mark Boslough on the Dangers of Climate Change and Destructive Asteroids


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Mark Boslough is a Caltech-trained physicist and CSI Fellow who spent 34 years at Sandia National Laboratories doing research on hypervelocity impacts, energetic materials, explosions, and global risk from asteroid impacts and climate change. He has participated in many science documentaries with field expeditions to airburst locations including the Libyan Desert of Egypt in 2006, Tunguska in 2008, Chelyabinsk in 2013, and the Nevada Test Site in 2017. 

Underdown sits down with Boslough to refute the ridiculous beliefs over climate change and what we can do now to counter the Earth's warming. They also spend time speaking about the impact asteroids have had on the Earth and clearing up definitions between asteroids and meteoroids, and comets.

New music heard on this episode

"Wahre" by Blue Dot Sessions / CC BY-NC 4.0

"SuzyB" by Blue Dot Sessions / CC BY-NC 4.0

 

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