Climate Chat

In this Climate Chat episode, we discuss greenhouse gas forcing, ocean temperature records, and Earth Energy Imbalance (EEI), and other subjects with Eliot Jacobson an Leon Simons.

While Eliot is known as a "climate doomer," he also compiles and presents climate information is useful forms for everyone to use, view, and understand.

Prof. Eliot Jacobson received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Arizona in 1983. He was a professor of mathematics at Ohio University from 1983 to 1998, getting tenure in 1989. From 1999 to 2009, he was a Visiting Associate Professor of Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara and this position turned into a full-time teaching (Lecturer) position. Prof. Jacobson then pursued his interest in gambling and became a consultant to the gambling industry.

While not a climate scientist, his interest in (and alarm of) climate change grew and Prof. Jacobson began writing about climate change on his website https://climatecasino.net

Previous Climate Chat interview with Eliot: "Discussion with a Climate Doomer"

https://youtube.com/live/2YBpKduVvqA

Eliot's write up on CO2e:

https://climatecasino.net/2024/08/the-long-and-winding-road-to-co2e/

Follow Eliot on Twitter/X: @EliotJacobson

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Leon Simons is a climate scientist based in the Netherlands. He was a co-author with James Hansen on last year's "Global Warming in the Pipeline" paper that discussed the recent acceleration in global warming. Leon's work has focused recently on changes in aerosol emissions from ships and the impact of those changes on climate change. You can access Leon's research writings here:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Leon-Simons

Hansen' May 2024 update: "Comments on Global Warming Acceleration, Sulfur Emissions, Observations"

https://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2024/MayEmail.2024.05.16.pdf

Landmark "Global Warming in the Pipeline" paper by James Hansen, Leon Simons, and others:

https://academic.oup.com/oocc/article/3/1/kgad008/7335889

Climate Chat interview with James Hansen:

https://youtube.com/live/8Ag3UVSrlhE

For more Climate Chat episodes, see our YouTube home page:

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Follow Leon on Twitter/X: @LeonSimons8

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In this Climate Chat episode, we interview author Genevieve Guenther about her recent book "The Language of Climate Politics." In the book, she points out how certain words and framings promoted by the fossil fuel industry make their way into our everyday discourse and are used even by climate action advocates.

Dr. Genevieve Guenther is the founding director of End Climate Silence and affiliate faculty at The New School, where she sits on the board of the Tishman Environment and Design Center. Dr. Guenther advises NGOs, corporations, and policymakers on fossil-fuel disinformation and climate communication. Her research has appeared in both scholarly journals and media outlets such as Scientific American, The New Republic, and MSNBC, and she has been invited to speak about climate and language to audiences at Duke, Columbia, and Harvard, among other universities. She lives in New York City with her family.

Genevieve's home page: https://genevieveguenther.com

Follow Dr. Guenther on Twitter/X: @DoctorVive

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In this Climate Chat episode, we interview Ken Berlin, former President & CEO of Al Gore's Climate Reality Project and Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council, a think tank focused on climate and energy.

We will discuss how the Climate Reality Project engages people on climate and we will also discuss Ken's work on cost competitive climate solutions at the Atlantic Council.

Ken Berlin is a senior fellow and the director of the Financing and Achieving Cost Competitive Climate Solutions Project at the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center. He has devoted his career to leadership on environment, energy, and climate-change issues. From 2014 to May 2022, Berlin was the president and chief executive officer of the Climate Reality Project, an organization founded and chaired by former US vice president Al Gore. He built the project into an international organization with offices in eleven countries and 130 chapters in the United States. The Climate Reality Project is dedicated to building public support for addressing the climate crisis. It has led multi-day trainings for over forty thousand climate activists, gathered the activists into a powerful international grassroots network, and activated them to work on climate-crisis issues and solutions.

Berlin was a co-founder with Reed Hundt in 2010 of the Coalition for Green Capital, an organization that works with governments at the international, national, state, and local levels to establish green bank finance institutions to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy, energy efficiency and clean transportation. Prior to that, he chaired the Environmental and Climate Change practices at the law firm of Skadden Arps where he was recognized as one of the leading climate-change attorneys in the United States and internationally. He has extensive legal and policy expertise on US and international environmental issues including clean energy; corporate compliance; environmental, social, and corporate governance; biodiversity; and forestry.

Berlin has served as chairman of the board of the Environmental Law Institute, the Center for International Environmental Law, the American Bird Conservancy, and Rare. He has served on the boards of other wildlife and environmental organizations and was involved with founding of the Alliance for Zero Extinction. He founded the Wildlife and Marine Resource s Section in the US Department of Justice.

Berlin is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia Law School.

Ken's Atlantic Council page: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/expert/ken-berlin/

Policy papers from the Atlantic Council that we will discuss:

Transitioning to the clean energy grid: A deep dive into the levelized cost of electricity:

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/issue-brief/transitioning-to-the-clean-energy-grid-a-deep-dive-into-the-levelized-cost-of-electricity/

Guarantees 2.0: Meeting Climate Finance Needs in the Global South:

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/issue-brief/guarantees-2-0-meeting-climate-finance-needs-in-the-global-south/

The flaws in project-based carbon credit trading and the need for jurisdictional alternatives:

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/issue-brief/the-flaws-in-project-based-carbon-credit-trading-and-the-need-for-jurisdictional-alternatives/

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In this Climate Chat episode, we interview climate scientist David Keith, Professor of Geophysical Science at the University of Chicago where he leads the Climate Systems Engineering program. David previously ran a similar program at Harvard. Dr. Keith founded Carbon Engineering, a company that captures CO2 from the atmosphere.

We will discuss the feasibility, safety, scalability, and political ramifications of climate interventions such as carbon capture and Sunlight Reflection Methods (SRM), a.k.a., solar-geoengineering.

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David's home page is: https://davidkeith.earth

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In this Climate Chat episode, we interview Adam McKay, a screenwriter, producer, and director known for "Don't Look Up", "The Big Short", "Vice", "Anchorman", and "Succession", among many, many other films and TV shows. Adam was head writer for Saturday Night Live from 1995 to 2001. In 2023, Adam founded Yellow Dot Studios, a non-profit production company that makes short-form videos that raise awareness and mobilize action on the climate emergency.

We will discuss the role of humor in engaging people on climate, the impact of "Don't Look Up", and how he thinks Yellow Dot Studios can move the needle on climate action.

Follow Adam on Twitter/X: @ZombiePanther2

View/donate to Yellow Dot Studios: https://yellowdotstudios.com

Follow Yellow Dot Studios on YouTube: @YellowDotStudios

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In this Climate Chat episode, we interview Stanford professor Mark Z. Jacobson about his research that shows we can rapidly transition to 100% renewable energy. This is a controversial position, yet with renewable energy costs dropping rapidly, many parts of the world already generate 100% of their electricity in certain parts of the day from renewables.

We will discuss the state of renewables today, the path to 100% renewables, and we will discuss some the issues that naysayers say will prevent us from achieving 100% renewable energy.

Mark Z. Jacobson’s career has focused on better understanding air pollution and global warming problems and developing large-scale clean, renewable energy solutions to them. Toward that end, he has developed and applied three-dimensional (3-D) atmosphere-biosphere-ocean computer models and solvers to simulate and understand air pollution, weather, climate, and renewable energy systems. He has also developed roadmaps to transition countries, states, cities, and towns to 100% clean, renewable energy for all purposes and computer models to examine grid stability in the presence of 100% renewable energy. Jacobson has been a professor at Stanford University since 1994. He has published over 185 peer-reviewed journal articles, given ~750 invited talks, published six books, and founded (in 2004) and still directs the Atmosphere/Energy Program at Stanford. His research crosses two fields: Atmospheric Sciences and Energy,

Mark's Stanford home page:

https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/

Mark's latest book: "No Miracles Needed: How Today's Technology Can Save Our Climate and Clean Our Air"

https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/WWSNoMN/NoMiracles.html

Mark's March 2023 webinar on how to achieve 100% renewables:

https://youtu.be/k_enAFPeVMg

Follow Mark on Twitter/X: @mzjacobson

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In this second Climate Chat interview with George Marshall, we discuss George's previous book, "DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change" which dealt with how our brains are not very good with dealing with future, long-term problems that don't trigger our threat response. We will also discuss George's upcoming book where he explores how we (as individuals, governments, and societies) will respond as climate catastrophe intensifies. This is a critical but practically unspoken subject.

Link to previous Climate Chat interview with George Marshall (audio only):

https://youtu.be/S-Kkwghdnp0

Link to George's "Don't Even Think About It" book on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Even-Think-About-Climate/dp/B0C6YD5R5C/

Follow George on Twitter/X: @climategeorge

Follow Dan on X/Twitter: @danmiller999

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In this Climate Chat discussion, we discuss climate scientist James Hansen's and Leon Simons's recent white paper titled "The World Will Cool Off – A Bit – and Other Good News!” and we will also talk about the US Supreme Court's recent "Chevron Doctrine" decision, as well as other climate-related news.

Link to Hansen's white paper:

https://mailchi.mp/caa/the-world-will-cool-off-a-bit-and-other-good-news

My Twitter/X summary of Hansen's white paper:

https://x.com/danmiller999/status/1806413729711730732

Washington Post article on the Supreme Court's Chevron Doctrine decision:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/06/28/supreme-court-chevron-environmental-rules/

Related Climate Chat programs:

James Hansen's Update On Global Warming Acceleration with Guest Leon Simons

https://youtube.com/live/OcdZvdSh9LQ

Climate Change: What to Know/What to Do with Climate Scientist James Hansen

https://youtube.com/live/8Ag3UVSrlhE

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In this Climate Chat discussion, we discuss what systems thinking is and why it is important for understanding and addressing climate change.

Related Climate Chat programs:

20-Point Global Policy Plan to Address Climate Change

https://youtube.com/live/p2496OB1EmI

Barriers to Climate Action

https://youtube.com/live/olcYG0LwJlw

Climate Change: Choosing to Fail, with Climate Scientist Kevin Anderson

https://youtu.be/tVFSJINGueM

James Hansen's Update On Global Warming Acceleration with Guest Leon Simons

https://youtube.com/live/OcdZvdSh9LQ

Climate Change: What to Know/What to Do with Climate Scientist James Hansen

https://youtube.com/live/8Ag3UVSrlhE

Systems thinking resources:

SYSTEMS THINKING: WHAT, WHY, WHEN, WHERE, AND HOW?

https://thesystemsthinker.com/systems-thinking-what-why-when-where-and-how/

CAN SYSTEMS THINKING SOLVE THE CLIMATE CRISIS?

https://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/deloitte-2022/can-systems-thinking-solve-the-climate-crisis/3781/

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In this Climate Chat discussion, we discuss the recent controversy, partially caused by our interview last week with climate scientist Michael Mann, over whether we are at or close to 1.5ºC global average temperature anomaly "trend".

While Dr. Mann and others say we are at a trend of about 1.3ºC now, others, including climate scientist James Hansen say we may at 1.5ºC now "for all practical purposes". We will discuss recent temperature measurements and the difference between a yearly reading like 2023 or "past 12 months" and what it means to be at or pass the 1.5ºC trend.

We will also step back and discuss the value of milestones like 1.5ºC and 2ºC above the pre-industrial global average temperature.

Related Climate Chat programs:

Climate Wars and Fragile Moments: An interview with Climate Scientist Michael Mann

https://youtube.com/live/T4sMkZKm91g

“Accelerating” Debate on Global Warming: Interview with Dr. Zeke Hausfather

https://youtube.com/live/LoegRrN-yvw

Much Ado About Accelerating Warming: Interview with Gavin Schmidt

https://youtube.com/live/mhvNVihv5Ww

2023: +1.54ºC! Why Is Global Warming Accelerating? Interview with Leon Simons

https://youtube.com/live/XCPf8vvedSI

James Hansen's Update On Global Warming Acceleration with Guest Leon Simons

https://youtube.com/live/OcdZvdSh9LQ

Climate Change: What to Know/What to Do with Climate Scientist James Hansen

https://youtube.com/live/8Ag3UVSrlhE

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