Lucy in the Sky with Aerosols - with Dr. Ben Kravitz

About this episode

Dr. Ben Kravitz discusses climate modeling and geoengineering strategies to combat climate change.

Leading off the second half of season 2 is Dr. Ben Kravitz, a climate scientist who focuses on modeling Earth's response when we push the Earth system involving things like greenhouse gas emissions or geoengineering. Hear about trash rain (and why weather balloons may not be the best bet for geoengineering), how we can model the impacts of stratospheric injection (where we intentionally put things in our air to try to combat climate change), what goes into a Model Intercomparison Project (MIP), and some thoughts on the Winter Olympics.

People in this episode

Host: Shelby Rader

Guest: Dr. Ben Kravitz

Topics covered

• climate science
• geoengineering
• greenhouse gas emissions
• modeling
• stratospheric injection
• environmental impacts

Keywords

• climate scientist
• geoengineering
• trash rain
• model intercomparison project
• stratospheric injection
• Winter Olympics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Winter Olympics

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