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Tell us what you thought of 'Engineering our climate' discussion.

Discuss the issues raised on the night by our panel

  • Should we be researching ways in which we can manipulate the earth's climate?
  • Are the dangers associated with geoengineering too great?
  • Should we be focusing on the challenges of mitigating carbon emissions?
  • Does geoengineering provide an easy option for governments?

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  • Nick said
  • 21 May, 2009 at 12:42pm

David Keith’s points were most illuminating - it’s hard to ignore the simple fact that even if we stopped dumping carbon in the atmosphere today we would still have to mitigate the emsissions to date to ease climate change.

Academic communities need to start engaging the public in events such as this to evolve the discussion so it eventually translates into a subject the general public can relate to and act on whether via political channels or at a grassroots level.

While I understand the discussion, I’d still like to know what could I do to micro-contribute to the solution?

  • Caroline said
  • 21 May, 2009 at 12:49pm

Another fantastic event from the 21st Century Challenges series. Professor David Keith was thoroughly engaging, the discussion was thought provoking and shed a new light on geo-engineering. Look forward to the next lecture in the 21stCC series.

  • Ben said
  • 26 May, 2009 at 12:41pm

I found Professor Keith and Dr Johnson of Greenpeace held very different, but compelling, viewpoints on geo-engineering. The RGS event certainly provided plenty of food for thought to anyone interested in geo-engineering itself, or climate change in general.

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