Climate Chat

Part 2 of interview with Climate Scientist Kevin Anderson who provides a straight-talk & sobering view of our climate situation. During this audience Q&A section of the interview, Kevin covers a wide range of issues including de-growth, carbon pricing, and geo-engineering. See subject time stamps below. Listen to gain insight into the "radical future" that is ahead of us.

Part 1: https://youtu.be/WQCofG9Urr4

Kevin's homepage: http://kevinanderson.info

Warning: This interview presents what some may consider to be a scary view of our future. Do not listen if you feel you may have trouble dealing with the information discussed.

Time Stamps:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:01:13 De-Growth

00:08:39 Can Governments Act?

00:14:52 Behavior vs. Technology

00:21:25 Carbon Pricing

00:25:48 Social Surprises

00:39:19 Bill Gates

00:31:51 If We Were Serious

00:36:17 Net-Zero is a Trap

00:41:45 Adaption

00:50:22 COVID Lessons

00:54:45 COP26

00:57:47 Hurricanes/Infrastructure

01:03:21 Commitments

01:09:34 Geo-engineering

01:14:34 Agriculture

01:20:50 Planting Trees

01:23:28 What To Do Now

01:26:44 High Emitters

01:31:45 Final Thoughts

01:36:58 Out-tro

Some quotes from Part 2:

00:34:38 “Top 1% of emitters globally have emissions that are twice as high as the bottom 50% of the global population.”

01:05:46 “Climate change is not an end point problem. Climate change is about the accumulation of emissions. And so what you do or don’t do in year 1, 2 and 3 will have massive repercussions on what you need to do by Year 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10.”

This interview was originally conducted live on the Climate Chat Club on the social platform Clubhouse. Join the club via the following link:

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Climate communications expert & author George Marshall discusses how to effectively communicate about climate change to the broad public. George is the author of "DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change" and is the Founding Director of ClimateOutreach.org.

Time Stamps:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:00:00 Welcome

00:02:27 George's background

00:05:57 Threat indicators

00:09:22 Fitting into a group

00:12:51 People impacted by climate change

00:20:59 What religion teaches us about climate communications

00:27:15 Hitting people with data

00:30:12 How climate change became your fault

00:35:41 Government support of climate communications

Audience Q&A:

00:42:55 Should we shout?

00:51:17 Environmentalists are freaks - How to reach others

00:57:07 Using our other senses

01:02:46 Negative vs. positive messages

01:07:48 Messaging to people's values

01:17:33 Narratives for the COVID crisis

01:24:53 Flight vs. Fight: How to stop people from being overwhelmed

01:27:48 When sustainability fails

01:31:01 Wrap up

01:32:57 Out-tro

Climate Chat Club on YouTube:

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Climate Chat Club on Clubhouse:

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Climate scientist David Archer of the University of Chicago discusses his research on the Ultimate Cost of Carbon (UCC): The climate impacts of release CO2 if the negative effects are not discounted. He also discusses the *very* long term impacts that our emissions of CO2 have on the climate (~500,000 years!).

David's UCC paper can be accessed here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-020-02785-4

David's homepage is https://geosci.uchicago.edu/people/david-archer/

Time Stamps:

00:00:00 Welcome

00:01:12 "Deep Time" carbon cycles

00:06:08 The Ultimate Cost of Carbon (UCC)

00:08:29 UCC vs. Social Cost of Carbon

00:09:46 How UCC is calculated

00:12:58 UCC time scale

00:14:28 UCC model assumptions & parameters

00:24:30 Long time for temperature to settle

00:27:07 70m/230ft of sea level rise

00:28:15 Game over scenarios?

00:29:22 Best case & conservative models

00:30:05 1 gallon of gasoline = 1 atomic bomb of warming!

00:35:22 Cost of cleaning up carbon

Audience Q&A:

00:41:21 Shorter time frames & UCC of air travel

00:47:43 How to communicate about climate & the long-term view

00:51:04 "The Long Thaw": How long CO2 effects last

00:55:43 Ocean uptake of CO2

01:02:00 Climate restoration/carbon removal/geo-engineering

01:07:38 David's current research: Paleoclimate ocean processes

01:09:09 Why ocean carbon capture doesn't work

01:10:52 Ocean pollution/biological pump/ice sheet feedbacks

01:13:55 Accounting for permafrost emissions

01:15:21 Wrap up

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Robert Howarth is Professor of Ecology & Environmental Biology at Cornell University. He is an expert on natural gas & methane and their impact on the climate. In this wide-ranging interview, Prof. Howarth discusses how methane's powerful warming capability (87X more effective than CO2 in warming the world over a 20-year period) and its high leakage rate from the extraction, transportation, and utilization processes makes it about as bad as coal when it comes to short-terms global warming.

Prof. Howarth's information page is: www.HowarthLab.org

This interview was originally conducted live on the Climate Chat Club on the social platform Clubhouse. Join the club via the following link:

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Climate Scientist Kevin Anderson provides a straight-talk & sobering view of our climate situation. How can we stay under 1.5/2ºC warming? What is the role of carbon capture? What does 4ºC warming mean? Have we reached a tipping point in public engagement? How should we think about Earth system feedbacks? Listen to gain insight into the "radical future" that is ahead of us.

Part 2 is here: https://youtu.be/iiE5A78jzOg

Kevin's homepage: http://kevinanderson.info

Warning: This interview presents what some may consider to be a scary view of our future. Do not listen if you feel you may have trouble dealing with the information discussed.

Timestamps:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:00:57 Kevin’s Background

00:06:31 1.5/2ºC Targets

00:12:19 “Net-Zero” by 2029!

00:20:30 Public Tipping Point

00:25:34 Staying under 2ºC

00:32:31 What Does 4ºC Mean?

00:38:42 Carbon Capture (CDR)

00:48:22 Feedbacks

00:52:52 Out-tro

This interview was originally conducted live on the Climate Chat Club on the social platform Clubhouse. Join the club via the following link:

https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/climate-chat