Climate Reflections: The SRM360 Podcast
Climate Reflections dives into the world of sunlight reflection methods, also known as solar geoengineering: a set of ideas to reflect a small amount of sunlight back to space to help counteract global warming. This may sound like science fiction, but it’s an idea that scientists really are studying.
Join podcast host Peter Irvine, a sunlight reflection scientist, to explore what different ideas are being studied to reflect sunlight, what impact they might have, and what is going on in the world today related to sunlight reflection research.
Episodes
12 episodes
News Roundup: major reports on SRM from Germany and the US, how to assess risk, and how emotions impact SRM opinions
To discuss SRM news over the past month, we're joined by Chad Baum, behavioral scientist and Assistant Professor at Aarhus University in Denmark, and Julie Vinders, Lawyer and Senior Research Analyst at Trilateral Research in the UK. We'll talk...
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Episode 11
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33:55
Air Pollution and SRM
Modern efforts to clean up air pollution started in the 1950s following the London Smog event, which killed nearly 12,000 people. Much of that pollution was caused by sulphate a...
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Episode 10
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20:07
News Roundup: the next IPCC report, alternative aerosol particles, and more
In a contentious meeting in late February, the IPCC agreed on outlines that include discussions of SRM for its 7th assessment report. For the first time in IPCC history, the US was notably absent, having been banned from participation by the Tr...
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Episode 9
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31:28
SRM Governance with Cynthia Scharf
Cynthia Scharf has spoken with senior policy makers, UN officials, think tanks and NGOs across the world about climate change and sunlight reflection methods (SRM). Eight years ago, when she first began having these discussions, most people did...
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Episode 8
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33:52
News Roundup: James Hansen and SRM, Arctic Ice Project Shuts Down, New MCB Studies, and More
What we'll cover:At the end of January, the Arctic Ice Project - formerly Ice 911 - announced they were shutting down. Why? A
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Episode 7
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30:15
The Geopolitics of SRM
Climate change will disrupt the geopolitical landscape. So will Sunlight Reflection Methods (SRM). But might SRM help reduce international tensions by reducing the impacts of climate change? Or will these methods cause more or worse disruptions...
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18:36
News Roundup: Hottest Year, SRM Under Trump, International SRM Discussions, And More
2024 was the hottest year on record. Could that change how policymakers think about SRM? How might the new administration in the US approach SRM? Do experts think countries will effecti...
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Episode 5
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30:59
What is Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI)?
On June 15th, 1991, the densely populated island of Luzon in the Philippines awoke to an explosion that would turn out to be the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century. Mount P...
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Episode 4
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22:09
News Roundup: Live from the American Geophysical Union
Host Pete Irvine is joined by SRM researchers Lili Xia, Chris Lennard, and Tyler Felgenhauer for a live recording from the American Geophysical Union conference in Washington D.C. They discuss the latest SRM news including: the
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Episode 3
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30:46
What is SRM? Who is studying it and why?
In our first themed episode of the Climate Reflections podcast, we present many different viewpoints from around the world on the role and risks of sunlight reflection methods (SRM) - proposals to reflect some of the sun's light back to space i...
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Episode 2
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22:16
News Roundup: History of SRM
For this first News Roundup episode of Climate Reflections, we look back over the entire history of SRM and ahead to its future. For this, we are joined by 4 great guests with extensive experience working on this topic: Inés Ca...
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Episode 1
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43:41
An Introduction to Climate Reflections
Climate Reflections: An SRM360 podcast explores the science, ethics, and our current understanding of Sunlight Reflection Methods (SRM), also known as solar radiation modification, or solar geo-engineering. SRM are a set of methods being resear...
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