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Cosmic Conclusions

Professor Katherine Blundell OBE · Gresham College

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About

Planet Venus is a hellish place and seemingly hostile to life, although recent measurements claimed the detection of biogenic signatures. Less than a billion years ago, Venus’s atmosphere underwent a dramatic runaway greenhouse effect rendering it likely to be uninhabitable. This lecture will consider what can be learned about the possibility of catastrophic climate change on Planet Earth, in the light of thermodynamics and of what has happened to Earth’s twin, Venus.

Lectures

  1. The End of Planetary Atmospheres 2022-09-28 · YouTube
  2. The End of Our Sun 2022-11-02 · YouTube
  3. The End of Massive Stars 2023-01-18 · YouTube
  4. The End of Life on Earth 2023-03-29 · YouTube
  5. The End of the Universe 2023-05-31 · YouTube

Credits and licence

Institution
Gresham College
Speaker
Professor Katherine Blundell OBE
Year
2022
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Physics, Biology, Earth and environment, Astronomy and space
Source
Gresham College
Licence
Educational use (Gresham College's terms), as Gresham College states it. Gresham College's terms
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