
549 - Charlie Zender (Climate Scientist)
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan
The Importance of Reflective Particles in Climate Change
After a nuclear exchange, what happens with all of the ash and soot from the fires that go up into the atmosphere? It's not good for us. It's a secondary effect that blocks all the light and stops photosynthesis. So it became known as nuclear winter because things got cold for a few years until the little particles fell out of the stratosphere. And that's a big deal even today. Putting particles in the stratosphere is one of the ways that people are thinking about trying to slow down climate change. Some sort of reflective particles. Yeah. I'm like a 19 year old interested in astronomy and astrophysics, but slowly due to just the abstractness of the courses in
00:00
Transcript
Play full episode
Remember Everything You Learn from Podcasts
Save insights instantly, chat with episodes, and build lasting knowledge - all powered by AI.