Part 3 of Surviving the Anthropocene, featuring Francisco Valero, emeritus physicist and research scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, imparting the history of the recently launched DSCOVR satellite and its mission to collect climate data.

Surviving the Anthropocene:
Part 1: Jonathan Amos / Human Influence
Part 2: David Grinspoon / Biological Inevitability
Part 3: Francisco Valero / DSCOVR
Part 4: Gaia Vince / Adaptation

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