Clive Hamilton is Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, a joint center of Charles Sturt University and the University of Melbourne. He is the author of Earthmasters: The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering.
GiveWell spoke to Clive Hamilton as part of its investigation of geoengineering research and governance as a charitable cause. Conversation topics included the debate over funding solar radiation management (SRM) research, governance issues around SRM research, and the history of scientific views on SRM research. SRM is one possible type of geoengineering intervention.