Richard Turco on engineering Earth’s climate
One of the ways scientists are looking at putting the breaks on global warming is to make earth's upper atmosphere more reflective. Hear Richard Turco talk about this issue. Image Credit: NASA
Scientists are looking into ways to put the brakes on global warming. One way may be to make Earth’s upper atmosphere more reflective.
It’s called geoengineering. Sounds like a cool idea, but is it more science fiction than science fact?
Richard Turco is an atmospheric scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles. Turco talked with Earth & Sky’s Jorge Salazar about the buzz behind geoengineering and why it might not be such a good idea. Jorge Salazar caught up with Turco at a late 2007 meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.
