Australian climate scientist Tim Flannery reviews some new, cutting-edge approaches to restraining or halting global warming.
Flannery opposes risky "geoengineering" schemes. But the new, "Third Way" approaches, he says, are different. Based on natural processes, they actually remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
These new technologies--combined with a shift from fossil fuels to wind and solar power--give us some reason to hope that climate catastrophe may be averted.
Flannery spoke in Seattle on November 12, 2015. The audio of his complete presentation was provided by Mike McCormick, producer of "Mind Over Matters," in Seattle. (Many thanks.) I have substantially condensed the talk for this radio program.
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