Presented by Elizabeth Thomas, Sujit Datta, and Atreyee Bhattacharya

During the last three billion years, Earth’s climate has nurtured life. However, records of Earth’s history indicate that climate has changed dramatically with major consequences for its inhabitants. What drives such climate changes? What are the consequences? In tonight’s lecture, we discuss the effects that greenhouse gases can have, as well as a novel engineering approach to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and the devastating effects caused by desert dust on the Earth’s climate.