Aldergrove library hosts free lecture about ‘geoengineering’

For the last three years, Canadian journalist Gwynne Dyer was interviewing more than one hundred climate scientists and engineers for his new book, Intervention Earth.

Now, he is coming to Aldergrove Kinsmen Community Centre to discuss his findings and his book on Wednesday, Nov. 6.

Specifically, he will explore the topic of ‘geoengineering,’ which is the idea of cooling the planet’s temperature by artificial means.

“We cannot make a clean getaway,” Dyer said. “Even if we manager to cut our greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050. The century of high emissions doesn’t just go away.”

But there may be a geoengineering strategy worth exploring.

In his interviews with experts, one thing became clear: geoengineering frightened most of them, and at the beginning a majority of them ruled it ‘too dangerous.’