Mark Boslough's guest appearances

Mark Boslough

Point of Inquiry

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David Morrison

Seth Shostak

David Grinspoon

Jill Tarter

Mario Livio

Glenn Beck

Kurt Andersen

Bassem Youssef

Jared Diamond

Adam Conover

Adam Savage

Michael Mann

Phil Plait

Shadi Hamid

Thomas Paine

OwlTail

Mark Boslough is a Caltech-trained physicist and CSI Fellow who spent 34 years at Sandia National Laboratories doing research on hypervelocity impacts, energetic materials, explosions, and global risk from asteroid impacts and climate change. He has participated in many science documentaries with field expeditions to airburst locations including the Libyan Desert of Egypt in 2006, Tunguska in 2008, Chelyabinsk in 2013, and the Nevada Test Site in 2017.  Underdown sits down with Boslough to refute the ridiculous beliefs over climate change and what we can do now to counter the Earth's warming. They also spend time speaking about the impact asteroids have had on the Earth and clearing up definitions between asteroids and meteoroids, and comets. New music heard on this episode "Wahre" by Blue Dot Sessions / CC BY-NC 4.0 "SuzyB" by Blue Dot Sessions / CC BY-NC 4.0   Receive alerts on new episodes and special updates by signing up for the Point of Inquiry email newsletter.

Mark Boslough is a Caltech-trained physicist and CSI Fellow who spent 34 years at Sandia National Laboratories doing research on hypervelocity impacts, energetic materials, explosions, and global risk from asteroid impacts and climate change. He has participated in many science documentaries with field expeditions to airburst locations including the Libyan Desert of Egypt in 2006, Tunguska in 2008, Chelyabinsk in 2013, and the Nevada Test Site in 2017.  Underdown sits down with Boslough to refute the ridiculous beliefs over climate change and what we can do now to counter the Earth's warming. They also spend time speaking about the impact asteroids have had on the Earth and clearing up definitions between asteroids and meteoroids, and comets. New music heard on this episode <a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blue_Dot_Sessions/Cloud_Harbor/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">"Wahre" by Blue Dot Sessions</a> / <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CC BY-NC 4.0</a> <a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blue_Dot_Sessions/Cloud_Harbor/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">"SuzyB" by Blue Dot Sessions</a> / <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CC BY-NC 4.0</a>   Receive alerts on new episodes and special updates by signing up for <a href="https://pointofinquiry.org/newsletter/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the Point of Inquiry email newsletter.</a>

Mark Boslough on the Dangers of Climate Change and Destructive Asteroids

Which would be worse for life on Earth: an asteroid impact or a global warming catastrophe? Dr. Boslough compares the "death plunge" of an asteroid into Earth's atmosphere and the resulting effects of an impact to the "death spiral" of irreversible human-caused change in the planet's climate and discusses whether one is more likely—or preventable—than the other.

Mark Boslough, University of New Mexico & Sandia National Laboratories - 3/14/16