Warm Regards

Warm Regards

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  • Does climate matter in America's election?
    This week, we’re talking once again about climate politics as this insane presidential race nears the final stage.
    And we’ve got a special guest co-host this week — Kate Sheppard, an enterprise editor and senior reporter at the Huffington Post.
    She joins us to talk about the national race, Clinton's emails, ratification of the international climate agreement, and a whole range of other issues.
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    33 min
  • What caused the end of the Ice Age?
    What caused the end of the Ice Age? It’s a 20,000-year old mystery that’s being tackled by climate scientists across the county. Answering this question is not just about understanding the past -- it’s about developing a unified theory of the atmospheric system. And it can help refine climate models that project current and future rates of warming.
     
    Aaron Putnam and his research team from the University of Maine are searching for clues as to what caused this rapid melting of glaciers and ice sheets. To find answers, Putnam's team traveled to a remote ice field in the Mongolian Altai, a vast range of mountains that touch Russia, Mongolia, China and Kazakstan.
    This story is brought to us by Kevin Stark. He’s an environmental journalist who lives in Chicago. He embedded with Putnam’s team for the entire 6-week journey, a part his work as a Comer journalism fellow at Northwestern University.
    Make sure to read Kevin’s companion piece at Pacific Standard Magazine: http://bit.ly/2eJbZ4T
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    19 min
  • The Climate Context of Hurricane Matthew
    This week, we have a special interview with Kerry Emanuel, a meteorologist and climate scientist who specializes in hurricane physics. We’re talking to him today about Hurricane Matthew, which is threatening to be one of the most destructive hurricanes in U.S. history.
    19 min
  • Is 2016 the warmest year in all of history?
    Is 2016 the warmest year in all of history?
    We’re going to tackle a bold and controversial statement this week: that 2016 is likely the single warmest year in the history of human civilization.
    We’re joined by Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, to talk through it.
    Is it fair to say this year is the warmest one we’ve ever experienced?
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    Links:
    Kxcd climate comic: http://xkcd.com/1732/
    A new article from Gavin Schmidt at FiveThirtyEight: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-we-dont-know-if-it-will-be-sunny-next-month-but-we-know-itll-be-hot-all-year/
    43 min
  • Climate scientists are people too!
    This week, we're joined by Katharine Hayhoe, an atmospheric scientist at Texas Tech University.
    Katharine talks about how she discusses climate change with her friends, family and skeptics. She'll also provide advice for young parents who are concerned about our kids' futures.
    Below are some resources mentioned by Katharine in this week's show.
    Berkeley carbon calculator: http://coolclimate.berkeley.edu/calculator
    Bruce Anderson's study: http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00645.1
    52 min
  • Where Earth's future is headed
    This week, we wrap up our three-part series on the past, present and future of climate science. We’re going to do our best to envision how today’s emissions will impact tomorrow’s planet.
    Eric, Jacquelyn and Andy will unpack the uncertainties about what we know and don’t know about the future – and lay out where we’re headed together.
    There’s one thing we know for sure: The more carbon dioxide we emit as a species, the hotter our planet will get.
    Make sure to listen to part one and two for additional context.
    Part one: https://soundcloud.com/warmregardspodcast/climate-forensics-how-scientists-reconstruct-the-past-to-understand-todays-climate
    Part two: https://soundcloud.com/warmregardspodcast/how-do-you-take-the-planets-temperature
    43 min
  • Flood watch: putting Louisiana's epic floods in a climate context
    This week, we’re talking about the ongoing flooding in Louisiana, which the Red Cross now says is likely America’s worst disaster since Hurricane Sandy.
    Early last week, the National Hurricane Center began tracking a slow moving low pressure system over the Gulf of Mexico, and projected a foot or two of rain to hit the Gulf Coast over the following week or so. Gradually, that storm creeped westward and tapped into a moisture source that was among the most saturated that’s ever been measured, according to NWS weather balloon data—boosted by record warm, 90-degree water temperatures in the Gulf.
    We’ll talk about the impact of the flood, the (lack of) media coverage, and how to think about flooding events like this in a climate change context.
    Find out how to help flooding victims through the Red Cross: http://rdcrss.org/2b04d0E
    24 min
  • How do you take the planet's temperature?
    For this week’s show, we’re going to continue what we started last week: A brief interlude into the science of climate change.
    We’re right in the middle of what’s very likely to be the hottest year on record, and we’ve just passed what is historically the planet’s warmest week of the year.
    This week’s show will examine how we know what we know about our current climate. And to do that, we’ll rely on the reporting expertise of veteran environmental journalist, Andy Revkin.
    25 min
  • Climate forensics: How scientists reconstruct the past to understand change today
    For the next three weeks, we’ll bring you bite-sized chunks of science that’ll hone in on how we got to where we are right now -- in the middle of the warmest year that humanity has likely ever experienced -- and where science says we’re headed if we don’t get our act together.
    This week’s show will focus on the past. And our all-star expert on paleoclimate, Jacquelyn Gill, will help us navigate backwards to place today’s planetary-scale changes in context.
    23 min
  • Bonus: The Global Cooling Myth
    This week, we present a bonus episode of Warm Regards.
    Forty years ago, on April 28th, 1975, Newsweek magazine published an article that created one of the most pervasive scientific myths in modern history.
    It was a one-page story, buried in the middle of the magazine. But it became the most widely cited article in Newsweek’s history.
    The piece, called “A Cooling World," raised concerns about a global cooling trend.
    It was published on page 64. But it became front page news for climate skeptics, who point to it as proof that scientists were confused, or even deliberately misleading, about global warming.
    In this episode, producer Stephen Lacey revisits the myth 40 years later.
    18 min

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Warm Regards is a podcast about life on a warming planet. The show is hosted by Jacquelyn Gill, a paleoecologist at the University of Maine, and Ramesh Laungani, a biologist at Doane University.…