Dr. Kevin Surprise

Senior Lecturer in Environmental Studies, Mount Holyoke College · 1 appearance on the record.

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Dr. Kevin Surprise researches the political economy of global climate change, focusing on the governance, geopolitics, and potential militarization of solar geoengineering technologies. He is a critical academic voice on commercialized solar radiation modification and contributes research to publications including Environmental Politics.

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Opinion

Dr. Kevin Surprise: Make Sunsets' cooling credit ratio is dubious marketing

“They really, at this point, don't have any way to measure whether or not they're actually releasing the proper amount of sulfur if it's making it into the stratosphere, and it's, you know, easy, like these just round, easy numbers of correlation from, well, on…”

Dr. Kevin Surprise Apr 27, 2023 ▶ 13:34 The Carbon Copy: A rogue geoengineering startup sparks worry

Insight

Surprise: Geoengineering researchers cannot control real-world technology deployment

“The experts who are researching this stuff are well-meaning and well-intentioned and are attempting to be very careful, but even with those safeguards that they're trying to impose on themselves, they are not going to have control over how this technology actu…”

Dr. Kevin Surprise Apr 27, 2023 ▶ 15:05 The Carbon Copy: A rogue geoengineering startup sparks worry

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
The Carbon Copy: A rogue geoengineering startup sparks worry	Apr 27, 2023	1m

Dr. Kevin Surprise

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