VIDEOS
The Growing Risk of Climate "Tipping Points": Scientific Evidence and Policy Responses with the Council on Foreign Relations
Kelly Wanser, executive director of SilverLining, and Peter Cox, professor of climate system dynamics at the University of Exeter, discuss what evidence exists for tipping points, and what policy options exist for managing these climate risks within the larger context of the climate crisis and an environmental emergency.
TED Talk: Emergency Medicine for Our Climate Fever
In a TED Talk that changed established views, SilverLining Executive Director Kelly Wanser describes the challenge of Earth’s rising fever, the promise, and risks of reflecting sunlight from the atmosphere to help restore our climate to health, and the case for research to provide objective information for society.
Amazon re:MARS 2022 - Modeling our Future: Advancing Climate Research
As part of Amazon’s re:MARS advanced technology summit, SilverLining hosted a panel featuring Colorado State University professor and climate scientist, Elizabeth Barnes, and Palo Alto Research Center head of Complex Systems Analytics, Dr. Kalai Ramea, discussing cutting-edge research efforts that apply artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate climate research and analyze solar climate interventions.
AWS On Air: Advancing Climate Research with AI
SilverLining’s resident climate scientist and Head of Earth Information Programs Alicia Karspeck joined these experts on the video podcast AWS on Air for a free-wheeling conversation and entertaining introduction to these topics. The hosts described it as “one of the best panels we have ever had.”
TED Conversation: A Brief Q&A with Kelly Wanser and Tim Flannery
Noted Australian environmentalist Tim Flannery joins Kelly Wanser onstage after her TED Talk and provides an unusual statement of support, noting her talk changed his views on research in climate intervention.
Energy Policy Seminar: Solar Geoengineering and U.S. Politics
Kelly Wanser joins Professor Joe Aldy, Professor David Keith, and Steven Hamburg of the Environmental Defense Fund, at the Harvard Belfer Center as they examine the current political landscape in Washington, D.C., and consider prospects for the future, with respect to solar climate intervention.
Professor Will Steffen - Climate Tipping Points and the Near-Term Future
Will Steffen, Emeritus Professor at the Climate Change Institute of Australian National University, discusses climate tipping points and the near-term future at the June 2020 SilverLining Sunlight Reflection Briefing.
Sunlight Reflection Briefing: Summary & Highlights
In 2020, SilverLining held a briefing on the state of play in research in solar climate intervention. The event featured leading efforts in the U.S. and other parts of the world, including remarks from scientific leaders at the IPCC, NOAA and NCAR. David Biello, science curator for TED, moderated the event, and philanthropic funders Chris Sacca and Rachel Pritzker also shared powerful commentary on the urgent need for research.
2021 Safe Climate Youth Summit
In June 2021, SilverLining, in collaboration with YOUNGO TechMech Working Group, the UN's children and youth constituency to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, hosted an event that kickstarted the youth dialogue on solar climate intervention with young climate leaders from across the world alongside climate intervention researchers and experts.
Panel discussion on Al Jazeera English’s The Stream
Al Jazeera English's The Stream recently invited International Institute for Sustainable Development consultant Anjali Viswamohanan, Harvard University Professor in Engineering and Public Policy David Keith, and Kelly Wanser, Executive Director of SilverLining to help explain the basics of solar climate intervention and discuss why scientific research might be important and where there are concerns.
Youth Dialogue on Climate Intervention
In January 2021, SilverLining held a youth dialogue on climate intervention as part of the Youth for Climate Adaptation Conference 2021. The event featured leading experts in the field discussing how youth can help ensure a safe future.
IVY: How to Mobilize a Rapid Response to Climate Change
In a virtual interview with Beri Meric, CEO & Co-founder of IVY, Kelly Wanser discusses how to mobilize a rapid response to climate change and how people from all walks of life—business people, citizens, and consumers—can take steps to address the warming climate.
The Battery: Technological Intervention in Climate
U.S. Rep. Jerry McNerney, (D-CA), Oliver Morton, author of The Planet Remade and editor at The Economist; Rob McHenry, Chief Operating Officer of PARC; and philanthropist Rachel Pritzker join Kelly Wanser and Nishan Degnarain, the World Economic Forum’s Special Adviser on Oceans, for a candid discussion on research in climate intervention.
American Research Leadership to Ensure a Safe Climate
U.S. Rep. Jerry McNerney (D-CA); Amanda Staudt, Director of the Board of Atmospheric and Climate Sciences at the National Academy of Sciences; McKie Campbell, former Chief of Staff for Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK); and Kelly Wanser brief U.S. congressional staff on research in solar climate intervention in a discussion moderated by David Livingston of Atlantic Council.
Is Reflecting Sunlight from the Atmosphere a Bridge to the Future?
At The Interval at LongNow in San Francisco, Kelly Wanser gives a captivating talk to a standing-room-only audience on the severity of climate risk, the possibility of climate interventions and the case for research. It includes a lively Q&A with a very engaged crowd. See Kelly’s full presentation here.
House of Representatives Committee on Space, Science and Technology
The committee, under Republican leadership, held an unusually constructive, science-based hearing on climate, centered on research in solar climate intervention, "Geoengineering: Innovation, Research, and Technology.” Witnesses included Philip Rasch of the U.S. Department of Energy, Douglas MacMartin of Cornell, Joseph Majkut of Niskanen and Kelly Wanser.