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SPEAKER_05: Okay. Latif. Hello. Hello. Welcome. Thanks. To radio lab. While you were on vacation, I got into some reporting hijinks. Okay. Well, where did you go on vacation? I went to Iceland.
SPEAKER_05: Okay. So as you were like flying down over the Island, your family's all beside you, I'm guessing covered in snacks underneath you in the ocean. There was a pretty stunning and kind of terrifying thing happening. Okay. And you were gone and I was curious. So I decided to plunge in, so to speak. Okay. There he is with all his books. You look like such
SPEAKER_05: a mad librarian. Anyway. Hey Hank, I got my, I also brought Soren, our editor with me and
SPEAKER_05: together we called up the guy who I first heard about all this from. I'm Hank Green.
SPEAKER_08: I make internet content. Like? I make a lot of science, TikToks and tweets and YouTube videos. You familiar with this gentleman? Yeah, of course. I feel like he's one of the
SPEAKER_09: smarter people out there doing science stuff online. Like he's the host of the YouTube channel SciShow. Yeah. But he's also written novels and founded several media companies. Yeah. Busy guy. Well, we are so thank you. We know you didn't really want to do this.
SPEAKER_08: I wanted to, I just wanted to be very clear where I was coming from. This story is going
SPEAKER_05: to get a little tricky, but it all started for Hank in the middle of summer 2023, which was a pretty depressing one on the climate change front, the hottest June on record, followed by the hottest July on record. And for Hank in particular, mentally, I was in
SPEAKER_08: a weird spot. I mean, I was in the midst of being treated for cancer and during chemo and I'm through it now. During chemo I had about a week of being completely useless when I would only consume content and then like maybe four or five days when I felt good enough to like make stuff. And Hank says he would spend a lot of his downtime sort of just reading,
SPEAKER_09: researching, looking online. And I had been confronted by a lot of really sort of apocalyptic
SPEAKER_08: we are reaching the end. Doomsday prepper kind of people on TikTok having a panic attack
SPEAKER_01: for the last hour who were looking at the temperature of the North Atlantic ocean, presidented
SPEAKER_08: warming and it was hotter than it had ever been, ever been in recorded history. And things are only getting worse. It's not good. The Holocene extinction, the sixth extinction
SPEAKER_00: event is probably starting now. I'm going to explain this with a visual and all of these
SPEAKER_05: TikTokers are pointing to this one chart. And here I can show it to you right here.
SPEAKER_09: Oh, you just shared it to me? Okay. Yeah. Okay. So it's basically a graph of the sea
SPEAKER_09: surface temperatures in the North Atlantic over the last couple of decades. It's kind of a pretty graph. Yeah. It's a bunch of squiggly blue lines going up and down and that's sort of the seasonal change. And then you can see the average is going up over time, but then there's a red line, which is this year. And that line is creeping up, up, up, and then
SPEAKER_08: it has a spike. Sudden red. Uh oh. Yeah. Yeah. And that line is like way above the average,
SPEAKER_05: even the seasonal ups and downs. It's not even close. Like the high jumper has cleared
SPEAKER_06: the pole. Yeah. Yeah. And this spike is happening over the course of months or weeks or I think
SPEAKER_09: it's days. Days. An existential threat to everything we know. So all the TikTokers are
SPEAKER_09: basically like, this is it. It's happening now. This is us falling over the cliff. We're falling over the cliff. Figure out your relationship with Jesus Christ. And are you watching this
SPEAKER_05: stuff literally like while you're getting chemo? Yeah, I probably didn't see it like
SPEAKER_08: during the moment when the chemo was going into my body, but certainly during the time when people doomscrolled. Just picturing. Yeah. Yeah. But anyway, so I'd seen this and
SPEAKER_08: are we all about to die? You may have seen this graph. Uh, if you haven't, I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_05: And Hank decides to hop on TikTok himself. Like I made a little series that was like
SPEAKER_08: trying to like contextualize it. We're not there yet. We're not anywhere close to there. At the time I was seeing it, I was like, I don't like it's probably just some kind of natural variation where it's like cooler than average right now in some parts of the world and it's hotter than average in other parts. And also we're entering on El Nino. So El Nino is just like a warmer climate time generally. And you take one little spot on the globe
SPEAKER_09: and blips happen. You know, there's natural variation across the earth. I don't know that.
SPEAKER_06: That doesn't mean we shouldn't be worried. Like now is not the time to say, Hey, it's getting a lot warmer, but no big deal. Totally. And, and to be clear, Hank takes this stuff
SPEAKER_05: very seriously. As a person who's been worried about climate change for the, my dad was the
SPEAKER_08: state director of the nature conservancy in Florida when I was growing up. So like we were a family of environmentalists. My mom's a sociologist who worked on sustainability. And I'm like, I have a degree in environmental studies. I've been in this for a long time and it's very scary. This is like, this is the biggest problem humanity has ever faced. But you know, there's sort of a debate that's like, do we need to get people more scared about climate change or do we need to get people more hopeful about climate change? Cause there you go around a bend eventually where it's like, there's nothing to be done and I will just be hopeless and sad. And I think a lot of people are there. Right. If
SPEAKER_05: you're too scared, you like tip into nihilism kind of. Yeah. And this is like, it's going
SPEAKER_08: to be like a bell curve of worry that we're all on somewhere. And in order to get like everybody to the appropriate amount of worry, we're always pushing some people to way too worried. And like, there's like not really too worried about climate change until and unless you give up on trying to solve the problem. So like, so according to Hank, when
SPEAKER_05: it came to this temperature spike in the North Atlantic, his sense was that these people online were being way too alarmist. There was a sort of a mathematics of gambling guy,
SPEAKER_08: which isn't really a climate scientist as you might expect, who, who was getting a lot of traction by tweeting about how this was a really big deal. And then he was getting like on the news. Huh. And so Hank thought maybe this is a moment to dampen rather than,
SPEAKER_09: you know, fan the flames, because that takes time, but also keep the conversation focused
SPEAKER_09: on things that we might be able to do over the next week or two on my Tik TOK. I'm gonna
SPEAKER_08: make some videos about the things that we are actually doing right now and will be doing in the future to help take care of this. So that is how Hank is spending this hot, hot
SPEAKER_05: summer, going through chemo, holding a candle for hope, battling climate nihilism. And then
SPEAKER_08: I was scrolling science news in bed late at night, like before going to sleep. I can do it. Yep. He comes across a link to an article that made him sit straight up in bed. Yeah.
SPEAKER_08: It's like 11 o'clock at night. I have to get up at seven 30 in the morning and I'm like, Oh, I'm going to read a lot right now. Okay. So the thing he sees, it's this article in
SPEAKER_05: science, it's a writeup of three recent studies. And what they found is that the spike in the North Atlantic sea temperatures, this like troublingly warming water, this year's spike,
SPEAKER_06: that one recent spike may have been caused by this thing, which is that a few years ago,
SPEAKER_05: the UN put into place some regulations that forced cargo ships to start burning cleaner fuel to, you know, reduce the pollution that they make and that doing that good thing, these papers said that caused the water to get warmer. Yeah. Wait. So they're saying
SPEAKER_06: the getting rid of pollution that you would think would make the problem better is actually in this one spot for a while at least making the problem worse. Right. How? All right,
SPEAKER_05: so let's go back to before this regulation, this change had happened. All these big hulky cargo ships are crisscrossing the North Atlantic, chugging along with their big smokestacks, puffing out big plumes of smoggy smoke. Cargo ships burn like the dirtiest oil. It's like
SPEAKER_08: the oil that's left at the bottom. That mayonnaise black mayonnaise. Yeah. You have to like heat
SPEAKER_08: it up before it'll even flow kind of oil. And so there's all this carbon dioxide going
SPEAKER_05: out into the air, of course, but there is also all this sulfur dioxide going out into the air. Okay. And that's horrible. Sulfur dioxide is bad for people. It's like it's
SPEAKER_08: bad to breathe. And then it is also bad for the environment because it turns into sulfuric acid when it mixes with water and then it falls down to the earth as acid rain. So that's where acid rain comes from. Which is, which is why the UN wanted to regulate it. But it
SPEAKER_05: turns out that in addition to being horrible for human health and making acid rain, sulfur dioxide also does something else. It actually can seed clouds. As the ship goes by and it
SPEAKER_08: pumps the sulfur dioxide up, you can see just like kind of a contrail that a jet would leave behind. You can see they're called ship tracks. Hank actually showed us a picture of this
SPEAKER_09: that was taken from from space. These tracks are like so big. It just looks like giant
SPEAKER_05: zebra stripes over the ocean of just white. When there's the right amount of heat and
SPEAKER_08: water in the air, you get all of these extra clouds that you normally wouldn't get. Okay. And the clouds reflect the energy of the sun into space. So instead of hitting the water and heating up the surface of the ocean, it hits a cloud. You know, you could think of it just like a very thin umbrella. And then there's a shadow on the ocean, which keeps water at least a little bit cooler. So you so suddenly you take that away, you burn cleaner
SPEAKER_05: fuel and then it's like taking away the beach umbrella. You're suddenly just you're the ocean and the ocean is getting blasted by the sun. Got it. It's not unanticipated. This
SPEAKER_08: is actually something that climate scientists have known about for decades, but it is not intuitive. And what this means is that overall, we have not seen the actual full effects of the carbon dioxide. It's like the warming from carbon dioxide has been worse than you
SPEAKER_09: thought up to now. It's just been sort of hidden by all the dirty clouds that we've had blocking light. Right. And if you get rid of that, you're going to realize just how bad it really is. Right. Yeah. And that feels like, oh, things are, this is do me
SPEAKER_05: like I don't, this now seems like a doom on a doom to me. Yeah, I agree. I feel like it's
SPEAKER_06: a double decker doom. Yeah. We're just going to burn like where I go to more denialism.
SPEAKER_05: I mean, I, I was, I found this very exciting and like fascinating, but not hankering. He
SPEAKER_05: reads this study and sees a silver lining, a literal silver lining in the smog cloud, a smog cloud that isn't there anymore. Right. The thing that excited me the most about it
SPEAKER_08: is we did it and then we undid it in order to make life better for people who are now not breathing that sulfur dioxide into their lungs. But now we have a chance to study what that looks like. He sees these papers and he's like, we have just done a pretty monumental
SPEAKER_05: experiment because for decades we had been letting these ships put out these pollutee smoggy smoke trails, which just so happened to act like umbrellas and shade the ocean. And now that we've taken the umbrella away, we can measure how big or small that cooling effect was. But then the broader, the broader question is, can you then, if we were doing
SPEAKER_08: it before and it, and we know what the effect was, can you then find another better way to do it intentionally without putting the acid rain stuff, smoggy stuff in the air?
SPEAKER_06: Huh? So like, like can we find a cleaner way to do the cloud umbrella just on purpose this time? Yeah. So it's like, he reads a ton more. He gets really excited. He goes to bed and
SPEAKER_05: dreams of like data and hope and ships. And then he wakes up the next day and fires out this like big Twitter thread kind of explaining what he sees and oh boy.
SPEAKER_05: When we come back, we are headed straight into the hot water that Hank's hopes landed him in. Stick with us.
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SPEAKER_06: Lulu. Lutthiff. Radiolab. We're back talking with Hank Green alongside our editor Soren Wheeler. And Hank has just hit publish on a long Twitter thread explaining how we might be able to learn something about how to make clouds to keep the ocean cool.
SPEAKER_09: Do you remember you put out a thread and then somebody writes back? No, no, no, no, no. God no, God no, no, no, no. Hank, no, no. Hank, Hank, stop. No, Hank, bad Hank. Go. Do you remember the first one you read and how it might have been that well. Yeah, that was by the way, a quoted tweet. No, there was only like three. No, I think it was no, no, no. I think it was a tweet. I mean, certainly it triggered like, please explain to me what
SPEAKER_08: I have stepped in here.
SPEAKER_05: So what Hank had stepped in was a heated and sometimes vicious debate. This whole line of research is unethical and a bad idea.
SPEAKER_05: Among climate activists. It's a sign of desperation. And climate scientists. Counts out of the bag. People know these options exist.
SPEAKER_05: About a little thing called geoengineering. This would not be the first choice. No, or third or fourth choice.
SPEAKER_05: So geoengineering 101. What is it, first of all?
SPEAKER_08: So yeah, the geoengineering is just any way that you would change the planet intentionally. But in general, when it comes to climate change, we're talking about decreasing the amount of heat in the system of the planet. Like just do whatever you can to cool things down.
SPEAKER_08: Right. And the simplest way you could imagine is like putting a giant mirror in space and reflecting some of the sun's light back. And then there's like a shadow on the planet in that area. Like, that's not really what is being proposed. But okay, I will say that until very recently, I thought this work of geoengineering was
SPEAKER_05: kind of like futile hubris. Like you read these stories of people in the 19th century shooting cannons into clouds to try to get rain to reduce drought. Or like, I read about like the Moscow mayor, Yuri Luzov, trying to spray a mist of cement on clouds to prevent snowfall. Yeah, a mist of cement is never a phrase I thought I would ever hear.
SPEAKER_06: So like, to me, I thought geoengineering was like not actually that realistic.
SPEAKER_05: But what I've learned in talking to Hank and digging into all this stuff is that no, the technology is there now. And there are some serious proposals from serious people being entertained seriously, including a proposal.
SPEAKER_08: To put sulfur dioxide in the stratosphere. Now, to be clear, I mean, like Hank points out that that's very different than the ship
SPEAKER_09: clouds he got excited about, because those are lower down, they're local, and they disappear on the scale of days. Whereas sulfur dioxide in the stratosphere would float around the whole planet and be
SPEAKER_08: a very thin umbrella wherever it ends up. And also in the stratosphere, it would stay there for a long time. How long?
SPEAKER_09: Like years. And there's a lot about this that we just don't know. Like, we don't know exactly what's going to get coolest, what's going to get warmer.
SPEAKER_08: We don't know how diseases are going to move around in that world.
SPEAKER_05: So there are a lot of people who understandably when geoengineering comes up are like, no, no, no, no, no, because they're thinking about these unintended consequences, you know, and there's scientists who study this stuff. Like if the tropics cool, they might dry out. And then you have less monsoon and then you get crop shortage. And like, then you actually might get more dust. Right, right, right, right.
SPEAKER_08: There is going to be a chance that it's really bad for everyone that you set off something that you didn't intend to set off. And then there's also the problem of there are going to be people who did not decide to do this, who are going to be negatively impacted. Right. Hubris is like that, like, we finally found the textbook definition, you know, like, let's change the whole planet, the only one we have, and just hope.
SPEAKER_05: So Hank is like, yeah, global geoengineering where you don't know what the effects are. That's bad.
SPEAKER_08: Yeah, it's terrifying. But the opportunity to learn a bunch about this extra cloud formation over the last decades, here's an area of the planet that's like, we created clouds on and now we're not creating clouds on it anymore. And we get to see what the effect of that is.
SPEAKER_09: Hank's point is that we can take this smaller local thing that already happened. Look at the data and find out did it have no effect or half the effect we thought or only over here, but it turned out in the long term, it had a different effect. Those are all questions that would be really useful to know the answers to. The opportunity to study this is huge.
SPEAKER_08: And I don't like, I don't know how else we'd get data like this.
SPEAKER_06: So he's not saying do it. He's just saying like, research it.
SPEAKER_05: But that brings us to the other flavor of anger. Hank was seeing a response to his thread.
SPEAKER_08: There were people who were like, shh, don't tell people about this.
SPEAKER_05: There are some people including climate scientists who say we shouldn't even talk about geoengineering like at all.
SPEAKER_08: Yeah, that their main thing is you don't give the fossil fuel industry a way out. That's not don't burn fossil fuels anymore. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_06: That's not to not to belittle that because like, that's the trap. That's that is like a purposeful playbook pioneered by the tobacco industry, you know, cast doubt, but also point in every direction at any possible shiny thing you can that will distract from the one thing, the one big thing that you are doing that we actually need to change for anything to get better.
SPEAKER_08: Yeah. And I've seen it. And I saw it in response to that thread. I saw people say, see, environmentalists were wrong the whole time. We shouldn't be doing all of this extra work. We can keep burning fossil fuels. Let's just put sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere and solve the problem that way. Fossil fuels are fine. Like I saw that.
SPEAKER_06: Even as you all are describing geoengineering, like my back gets thrown up and I'm like, oh, God, like, I'm nervous about that. I'm nervous about talking about this.
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, no, I, I hear it like and I think it's a real question whether it's dangerous to even talk about geoengineering in case people think, oh, okay, let's, let's go ahead and do that. Or they think it means that they don't have to worry about reducing fossil fuel emissions.
SPEAKER_08: But oh, if we don't talk about it, they'll still find it and they will joyfully misinterpret it and it will be the first time a lot of people hear about it. And I'd rather have it the first time that people hear about it be from somebody who is perfectly aware that climate change is real. And I especially think that like your first exposure to an idea should be a complex one. Hank's argument is basically because geoengineering is already in the room, we need to know how
SPEAKER_09: to talk about it.
SPEAKER_08: We need to figure out whether and how we can do this. Like if we should, we have to make the decision if we should.
SPEAKER_09: Because Hank says there might come a point where in addition to solving the global long term problem, we might need to deal with some more local, more short term problems.
SPEAKER_08: One of the biggest problems with global warming is going to be heat. Like there's going to be places where it is too hot for people to live without air conditioning. And in those places, if the power goes out, people will just die. Like in ways that we've never seen. Like heat kills people already, but we need to be confronting the reality that heat is very deadly. And there are going to be people who are going to be thinking, is there a way to just make it less hot right here, right now? Yeah, but you don't want to go back to putting sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere.
SPEAKER_09: I mean. But like you could do it with other stuff.
SPEAKER_08: So you could also potentially, though this has not been researched as much as it needs to be, just shoot seawater into the air, which is a round. Like there's a lot of seawater when you're on the ocean. You just pump it up and mist it into the air, maybe even pump it to where the smokestack is so that it gets hot and goes higher. And then the salt actually can seed the cloud, or the water droplet itself can seed the cloud. And seawater universally known to be not so bad for the ocean.
SPEAKER_04: And you'd get your umbrella made of like virginal seawater. That sounds so great.
SPEAKER_08: They're doing it in Australia right now.
SPEAKER_05: It's called, apparently, marine cloud brightening.
SPEAKER_08: Yes. So in Australia, there's a small scale experiment that's just trying to make the clouds over the Great Barrier Reef brighter to try and save the Great Barrier Reef. Try to put a little bit of a cool on that and slow things down.
SPEAKER_09: Oh.
SPEAKER_05: Mm-hmm. Like that sounds really like benevolent and okay. Isn't that interesting that it sounds benevolent okay?
SPEAKER_08: Because maybe it isn't. Like even if it's local, even if it's temporary, we don't know all the impacts that it's going to have. Like you could end up in a world where you, you know, the climate changes in a way that makes it really bad for a certain crop or that makes it really good for a certain disease. And like you wouldn't have thought of that one and now you've heard it. But what are the ones you haven't thought of?
SPEAKER_05: Yeah. Like, I will admit I had a conversion this whole journey, these past like three weeks of seeing the tweet, researching, getting ready to talk to you, which was that I was like, this is so cool. Everyone needs to know about it. But like, I feel really torn now because on one hand, like a ship with some salt spraying feels fine and nice and lovely. But then it's like, is that just a shiny distraction? Like, and, and, and more than that, when it comes to nature, there are just, as you were saying, there's so many things we don't know that we don't even know we don't know. And the stakes couldn't be higher. When I think about any chance that someone out there could take this wrong or hear this wrong or decide to jump in whole hog, I'm almost like, just put it back in the box.
SPEAKER_09: We can't though. That's not ours. That's not for us to do. I know.
SPEAKER_05: But like, can't we just be like, no, like human cloning. Like, what if we're just like, don't.
SPEAKER_08: Yeah, we can, there's things we've, we, we keep in boxes for a little while, at least. The three of us shushing is not going to put anything in a box. What would you say to me?
SPEAKER_05: Because part of me is like, you're leaving, I'm going to press delete. What would you say to me? Who's like, actually kind of tipping over into the, like, I see the terror of even talking about it.
SPEAKER_08: You know, the reality is that we are doing geoengineering right now just recklessly and thoughtlessly and for capitalist reasons.
SPEAKER_05: But that's not like deliberate geoengineering, right? That's like, no, so it's not you can't call it geoengineering.
SPEAKER_08: Like it's just, it's like geo screwing around. Like, but we are changing the climate.
SPEAKER_05: So you're saying we already do it already.
SPEAKER_08: Also like what we all know is that we should put less CO2 into the atmosphere. And also we should take CO2 out. So that's gonna probably be necessary. Like it isn't just going to be taking, it isn't just going to be stopping producing it. It's going to be taking it out and taking CO2 out of the atmosphere is geoengineering. Geoengineering.
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, like carbon capture stuff.
SPEAKER_08: And it will have negative impacts on some people as well as positive impacts on others. Like we're okay with that. So like that's a geoengineering that we're okay with and we have to figure out like where we're not okay. And I am not here to convince Lulu Miller that geoengineering is a good idea. Like I would love for someone to convince me which way I should feel because I don't know. I definitely think we should study it. And talk about it. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06: Yeah. I mean, so long as we're talking about the real problem and real solution at the same time.
SPEAKER_08: Yeah. Right. But like, I don't think that we can make a decision by ignoring it. That is like, literally I was talking about that in therapy this morning.
SPEAKER_05: So yeah, point taken. Don't just ignore it. So I see your point. That's like the talking about it could help us to really shut it down.
SPEAKER_08: Or to take, at least to take the chance with this North Atlantic situation to understand it better. The difference between how bad it is now and how bad it could get is very big. And weirdly, that makes me hopeful because it means that there's slack. And I don't know, I like really, I believe in humanity. I think that we're remarkable problem solving machines when we recognize problems and look for truth and work together. And that's what science is about.
SPEAKER_06: Thank you to Hank Green for coming on to talk to us about this.
SPEAKER_05: Big thanks also to Dr. Colin Carson at Georgetown who studies the potential chain effects of geoengineering and to Avishai Artsy.
SPEAKER_06: This episode was reported by Lulu Miller with help from Alyssa Jung Perry. It was also produced with help from Alyssa Jung Perry with music and mixing help from
SPEAKER_05: Jeremy Blum.
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