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Blue Dot: The social cost of carbon and storing carbon in building materials

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Host Dave Schlom visits with two UC Davis professors to discuss one of the most important yet problematic elements on the Periodic Table: Carbon.

First up, we talked to Frances Moore from the UCD Department of Environmental Science and Policy to discuss a paper she co-authored on the Social Cost of Carbon (SCC).

The SCC is a calculated and studied aspect of the global economy, and Moore et al. have determined that we have been underestimating this important cost.

Then, Dave interviews Gabbie Sabbie Miller from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering on innovative ways that carbon can be removed from the global geochemical cycle and stored in building materials.

Dave Schlom is the longtime host and creator of Blue Dot. From surfing to Voyager in interstellar space, rock guitar to orcas in our imperiled oceans, the topics on Blue Dot are as varied as the host’s interests and connections -- which are pretty limitless! An internationally respected space history journalist, Dave is also deeply fascinated by all aspects of the grand workings of nature’s awesome machinery on scales ranging from galactic to subatomic. And topics take in all aspects of the arts and sciences.
Matt Fidler is a producer and sound designer with over 15 years’ experience producing nationally distributed public radio programs. He has worked for shows such as Freakonomics Radio, Selected Shorts, Studio 360, The New Yorker Radio Hour and The Takeaway. In 2017, Matt launched the language podcast Very Bad Words, hitting the #28 spot in the iTunes podcast charts.