Climate Change. Human Caused Global Warming
Experts in the field share their research and insights related to climate change. Climate change. Human caused global warming. Our planet in a state of urgency. 'Inspiration Monday' is a collection of audio segments pulled together from various episodes of the podcast.
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From time to time, I do think about the future.
Nathan Bindoff:My dream is the picture we so frequently paint will be different.
Nathan Bindoff:Not the catastrophe that is so frequently forecast, but a world where
Nathan Bindoff:the pressing problems that cut off, circumvented with human ingenuity
Nathan Bindoff:and self-realization and mobilized by collaborative effort, a world where humans
Nathan Bindoff:decide the future to be sustainable.
Nathan Bindoff:And transformed and a transformed one that successfully reconciles climate change our
Nathan Bindoff:needs for food, energy, and all of life.
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Catherine:It's inspiration Monday and today's experts offer their research
Catherine:and insights on climate change.
Catherine:Well, I've gathered a collection of inspiring and informative audio
Catherine:clips from different episodes and guests of your positive imprint.
Catherine:As always, I'll provide information regarding the brilliant individuals
Catherine:featured in today's inspiration Monday at the conclusion of today's episode.
Catherine:Imagine infinity.
Catherine:Climate change.
Catherine:Human caused global warming.
Catherine:Our planet in a state of urgency.
Terry Lilley:Who's liable for the cleanup caused by climate change?
Catherine:Glastonbury Festival was held in the United Kingdom, a new laboratory
Catherine:stage that brought science to life.
Catherine:Climate change was among the topics that festival goers learned about
Catherine:through demonstrations, games
Catherine:and music, including music from the Matt Palmer Band.
Matt Palmer:There is a song that was on that EP called The Flood,
Matt Palmer:which is about sea level rise.
Matt Palmer:I think it's a topic that in, in some places, perhaps it's
Matt Palmer:becoming better understood.
Catherine:Well, professor Bindoff and his colleagues documented some of
Catherine:the first evidence of the high melt rates of the Antarctic ice sheet.
Nathan Bindoff:And that voyage was the first ever against the
Nathan Bindoff:Antarctic continent in winter.
Nathan Bindoff:That was 1998, but that was the Australian ice breaker.
Nathan Bindoff:So we estimated that a melt rate, and we came to understand how much was being
Nathan Bindoff:lost by the ice sheet there in winter.
Nathan Bindoff:So it was transferring mass in the Antarctic ice sheet itself into the
Nathan Bindoff:oceans and causing sea level to go up.
Josh Willis:Climate change is a massive shift of our planet and our
Josh Willis:civilization is built on the climate we've had for thousands of years.
Terry Lilley:We also have natural changes that happen on the earth.
Niall Robinson:I was lucky enough to live in the rainforest for four
Niall Robinson:months, uh, measuring the gases that the trees produce there because they
Niall Robinson:affect the way clouds are created, and that affects the radiation
Niall Robinson:balance, which affects climate change.
Mike Silvestrini:We need more of those things so that we can turn off
Mike Silvestrini:the carbon emitting fossil burning infrastructure that we currently rely on.
Mike Silvestrini:The
Helen Phillips:ocean and the atmosphere system are, are very connected, and
Helen Phillips:any changes that are experienced in the ocean will impact the atmosphere.
Helen Phillips:Global
Catherine:food security, does it really exist?
Nathan Bindoff:The fire season this year has been an extraordinary wake up call for
Nathan Bindoff:Australia and the wildfires in the USA.
Helen Phillips:And we are not seeing major governmental direction
Helen Phillips:towards a really different way of living on this planet so that
Helen Phillips:we can stay within its resources.
Andrew Bracken:Sorghum is an important crop with climate change.
Terry Lilley:A true climate change issue that's changing the weather, which
Terry Lilley:changes a surf, which alters the beach erosion, which led to a multimillion
Terry Lilley:dollar home falling into the surface.
Ray Schmitt:China knows it's got a big problem.
Ray Schmitt:They have a huge pollution problem.
Ray Schmitt:They know they have to shut down coal plants.
Catherine:IPCC, which is the intergovernmental Panel on climate change,
Nathan Bindoff:IPCC was a.
Nathan Bindoff:A vision.
Nathan Bindoff:And that vision was an understanding that, so this was from measurements
Nathan Bindoff:of atmospheric CO2, and at that moment there was a decision made.
Nathan Bindoff:Now it was in the time of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.
Matt Palmer:I was lucky enough to be selected as a lead author on
Matt Palmer:the IPCC sixth assessment report.
Matt Palmer:They're important because they form the basis of the political negotiations
Matt Palmer:around greenhouse gas emissions.
Matt Palmer:And to trying to reduce those over time.
Andrew Bracken:I'm trying to provide farmers with tools to mitigate
Andrew Bracken:the impact of climate change.
Andrew Bracken:Mm-hmm.
Catherine:Mm-hmm.
Andrew Bracken:Because the changes are happening so rapidly,
Kurt Polzin:you're looking
Kurt Polzin:at the world in a very tactile and tangible way.
Ray Schmitt:Europeans are taking climate change seriously.
Ray Schmitt:They're building most of the solar panels.
Ray Schmitt:The planet nowadays,
Mike Silvestrini:you need to work in harmony with your environment
Mike Silvestrini:to have a strong society.
Matt Palmer:International governments get together and try to agree how they're
Matt Palmer:gonna reduce greenhouse gas emissions and curb the worst effects of climate.
Terry Lilley:Kids can go out there and do mushroom studies and see how
Terry Lilley:mushrooms are affected by climate change.
Helen Phillips:Then we also have observations from satellites so we can
Helen Phillips:see very good detail in how the surface of the ocean is changing through time.
Josh Willis:These satellites are so accurate that they can measure a change in
Josh Willis:sea level of about one inch from 800 miles
Mike Silvestrini:up.
Mike Silvestrini:They have themselves encouraged the acceleration of desertification, which
Mike Silvestrini:has crippling effects on economy, which result in increased violence.
Terry Lilley:Humans here are actually gonna have to get progressive
Terry Lilley:figure out how to be sustainable.
Matt Palmer:Collective working, I think, is really the future
Matt Palmer:of everything that we do.
Mike Silvestrini:Germany has a per capita success story going
Mike Silvestrini:on, where about 53% of their total electric mix comes from renewables.
Mike Silvestrini:We're testing the consciousness, uh, of our culture here and whether or not
Mike Silvestrini:people are good at complaining about climate change are, are they gonna
Mike Silvestrini:open up their wallets and invest?
Helen Phillips:For governments to listen, they have to be
Helen Phillips:told by the people that we need
Helen Phillips:change.
Helen Phillips:It seems a little bit insufficient to just keep doing this work
Helen Phillips:because it's really like monitoring the patient until he or she dies.
Helen Phillips:It's not actually intervening to fix the problem and maybe save
Helen Phillips:the life, and we don't think that the future of our children is as
Helen Phillips:important as, as our right now.
Helen Phillips:The world that they will live in is vastly different from the one that we've enjoyed.
Catherine:It's about global food security on a planet where climate
Catherine:change is affecting food supplies.
Niall Robinson:Actually, this is no longer about individual action.
Andrew Bracken:Kenyan farmers have planted maize corn, but
Andrew Bracken:with climate change, the rains
Andrew Bracken:are, are less predictable.
Matt Palmer:It's no longer really a conversation about whether this is
Matt Palmer:happening, whether it's human caused; it's human caused, it's happening.
Matt Palmer:So the question now is what are the solutions?
Matt Palmer:How do we minimize our exposure to climate risk, which includes trying to coordinate
Matt Palmer:to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Nathan Bindoff:It's all very well to have the science, but the
Nathan Bindoff:science doesn't make any progress until actually society accepts it.
Nathan Bindoff:And acts on it.
Mike Silvestrini:The hard part about conservation is you have to be successful
Mike Silvestrini:for eternity for it to matter at all; it only really matters if it works forever.
Josh Willis:Climate Elvis.
Josh Willis:I started taking improv classes, and I did this because I wanted to
Josh Willis:be better at communicating about climate change and global warming.
Josh Willis:I play Elvis and I sing an Elvis song that I wrote the lyrics for.
Josh Willis:Uh, sort of a, a tribute to a jailhouse rock.
Josh Willis:It's called the Climate Rock.
Josh Willis:Oh, that's a climate you've got.
Josh Willis:Maybe you take a bunch of weather and you average it together,
Josh Willis:and you do the climate rock.
Josh Willis:Oh yeah.
Josh Willis:thank you very much
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Catherine:So try to change your perspective in order to understand the reality of others.
Catherine:Of course I thank my guests, Josh Willis Oceanographer, NASA's Jet Propulsion
Catherine:Laboratory Principal Investigator Ocean's Melting greenland, episode 144.
Catherine:Dr. Matt Palmer, physical oceanographer met Office Hadley Center, United Kingdom
Catherine:lead author on the planet's most recent intergovernmental panel on Climate
Catherine:Change, episode 178, Niall Robinson
Catherine:climate scientist research and development algorithms, data and mathematics.
Catherine:Met Office, Hadley Center, United Kingdom, and recently the developer
Catherine:Relationship Manager for Weather and Climate with N-V-I-D-I-A.
Catherine:Episode 1 78, Dr. Helen Phillips, physical Oceanographer Scientist Institute for
Catherine:Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania, episode 80.
Catherine:Terry Lilley, Marine biologist and filmmaker.
Catherine:Episodes 154, 156, 160, 161, 164.
Catherine:Mike Silvestrini Big Life Foundation, Energea Solar Company.
Catherine:Episodes 1 57 and 1 58.
Catherine:Kurt Polzin Physical Oceanographer,
Catherine:Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, episode 29.
Catherine:. Nathan Bindoff Physical Oceanographer, oceans Ice and Climate Studies,
Catherine:university of Tasmania, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies,
Catherine:episodes 73 1 76 and 191.
Catherine:Andrew Bracken, collaborator and partnership with Small Farmers globally.
Catherine:Episodes 50 and 88.
Catherine:Ray Schtidt Physical Oceanographer, woods Hole Oceanographic
Catherine:Institution, episode 41,
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