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.'
Dyer expects that, now, a majority of climate scientists have swung the other way.
"We must hold the heat down to keep our societies intact while we cope with the changes."
Even so, geoengineering is only a temporary path fix, rather than a long-term solution.
"New emissions still have to stop, and most historic emissions will eventually have to be removed," he explained. "However, climate engineering may be the necessary bridge to get us through the crisis without a catastrophe."
The event begins at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Kinsmen is located at 26770 29 Ave.
People can register for free online at eventbrite.ca.
Dyer is an independent Canadian journalist, syndicated columnist, and military historian. In 2010, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada.
The free lecture titled 'Planetary Maintenance Engineers' is part of the third annual Climate Action Week at a Fraser Valley Regional library, an initiative by the British Columbia Library Association in partnership with public and academic libraries across Canada.
