Climate solutions explained by climate scientists.
In five minutes.
A Virtual Briefing Room
We asked climate scientists to speak for five minutes about the range of possible solutions, as if they were testifying to Congress, briefing a roomful of philanthropists, or speaking with everyone at their holiday table.
No graphs, no charts, no jargon. Just honest talk from the heart.
Our favorite and most relevant selection from our library of videos.
Phil Duffy of Spark Climate Solutions (formerly of the White House)
Topics Covered: Interventions, and The Ethics of “Keep 1.5 Alive!”
More Info at: SparkClimate.org
Nina Grant of Rutgers University
Topics Covered: Terraforming, Alternatives to Solar Geo, the Mount Pinatubo Volcano
More Info at: Rutgers University
…and more from our library of videos:
Roisin Commane of Columbia University
Topics Covered: CO2 emissions tracking, CO2 emissions data sets
More Info at: Commane Laboratory
David Koweek of Ocean Visions
Topics Covered: CO2 levels in the ocean, Ocean CO2 Removal Pathways
More Info at: OceanVisions.org
Doug MacMartin of Cornell University
Topics Covered: Scale of the problem, landscape of solutions, solar geoengineering
More Info at: Sibley School
Jim Hurrell of Colorado State
Topics Covered: A reluctant consideration of solar geoengineering
More Info at: Colorado State
Ben Kravitz of Indiana University
Topics Covered: A reframing of the scale of the CO2 problem
More Info at: Indiana University
Michael Diamond of Florida State University
Topics Covered: From clouds to solar geoengineering
More Info at: The Diamond Group at FSU
Lili Xia of Rutgers University
Topics Covered: The Degrees Initiative - a favorite nonprofit
More Info at: Rutgers University and Degrees Initiative
FAQs
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We interview scientists about the entire range of climate solutions. If the scientist approves the resulting video, we post it here.
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Our founder gave a keynote address on the subject of climate change to the annual meeting of the Family Office Association. The feedback was that philanthropists want to hear more about solutions directly from scientists. ClimateBriefing.org was the result.
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No. We are supported by philanthropy, not clicks.