41. David Keith on Climate Systems Engineering

Challenging Climate

David Keith is a Professor in the Department of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago and the Founding Faculty Director of the Climate Systems Engineering initiative. Keith previously led the development of Harvard’s Solar Geoengineering Research Program.
In this episode, we discuss Keith’s Climate Systems Engineering initiatives, carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and geoengineering techniques. Drawing on David’s decades of expertise, we dive deep into topics such as CDR, solar geoengineering, ice sheet geoengineering.
Links:

• David Keith’s profile (& old profile)
• The Climate Systems Engineering initiative

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Chapters

1. 41. David Keith on Climate Systems Engineering (00:00:00)

2. Intro and background (00:00:23)

3. What is Climate Systems Engineering? (00:01:42)

4. Has there been a paradigm shift in geoengineering research? (00:06:35)

5. Open system CDR: what topics warrant more attention? (00:09:34)

6. Climate model scenarios: too optimistic about CDR scale-up? (00:14:58)

7. What will happen once we reach Net Zero? (00:21:14)

8. Solar Radiation Management (00:22:26)

9. Outdoor experiments for SRM (00:28:46)

10. Ice sheet geoengineering: is it plausible? (00:31:12)

11. What is your greatest contribution to climate science? (00:34:32)

12. Climate change community - what’s been working well and not working? (00:37:06)

13. What gives you optimism? (00:40:42)