Warm Regards

Warm Regards

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  • Climate politics in America's crazy presidential race
    If you’re listening to this from a post-apocalyptic Pokemon-dominated global-warming ravaged future –- welcome!
    We’re getting to crunch time in the election, and a whole suite of new climate-related polls have been released in just the last few days. Is this finally the election in which climate change is going to play a big role?
    When you look at America as a whole, climate change still ranks relatively near the bottom in terms of voters’ priorities. Last week, a Pew survey ranked the environment as 12th out of 14 major issues, just below trade policy. But if you burrow in to the large and growing section of America that’s deeply concerned about climate change, you’ll find there are a lot of single-issue voters that are very engaged.
    We have a lot in store for today’s show: Pokemon is making people go outside for the first time; Bernie has endorsed Hillary; Trump is still Trump. Sheer craziness.
    Check out the recommended reading list below.
    Eric’s links:
    Hillary’s climate plan: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2016/06/hillary_s_climate_change_plan_isn_t_as_good_as_bernie_s_revolution_might.html
    A Green Party comeback: http://www.vice.com/read/can-the-green-party-make-a-comeback-in-2016-209
    Trump supporters and climate: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/03/what_do_trump_supporters_think_about_climate_change_i_went_to_a_rally_and.html
    Jacquelyn’s links:
    Pokemon Go gets people outside: http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-pokemon-go-real-animals-20160711-20160711-snap-story.html
    Jet Stream mania: http://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2016/07/02/lessons-from-jet-stream-crossing-the-equator-mania/#5f3756d05a8c
    2008 DNC platform: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=78283
    Hillary's climate plank: https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/climate/
    AR4 vs AR5: http://treealerts.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/AR4-AR5-comparison.pdf
    Stephanie Svan on "voting green on principle": http://the-orbit.net/almostdiamonds/2016/06/20/voting-green-principle/
    Andy’s links:
    Video summarizing the politics of climate: https://www.facebook.com/andrew.revkin.5/videos/vb.631851039/10155022172286040/?type=2&theater
    Sri Lanka mangroves. https://www.seacology.org/project/sri-lanka-mangrove-conservation-project/
    41 min
  • Is it time to freak out about the Arctic?
    Snow and ice are disappearing from the Arctic region at unprecedented rates, leaving behind open water that’s much less reflective to incoming sunlight than ice. That, among other factors, is causing the northern polar region of our planet to warm at a faster rate than the rest of the northern hemisphere—a phenomenon called Arctic Amplification. And over the past several months, it’s become increasingly obvious that big changes are happening now. Right now, not 5 or 10 or 20 years from now, Now.
    In this week’s episode, we’ll talk about all those changes -– and what they say about what we do and don’t know about the melting Arctic.
    Oh, and we’ll also talk about how Game of Thrones relates to climate change.
    Check out the recommended reading list below.
    Eric’s links:
    Arctic melting: http://www.climatecentral.org/news/arctic-sea-ice-breaks-may-record-20415
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/02/18/scientists-are-floored-by-whats-happening-in-the-arctic-right-now/
    Arctic greening: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/06/27/its-official-humans-are-making-the-earth-much-greener/
    Jacquelyn’s links:
    Twinkies: https://www.boston.com/culture/lifestyle/2016/06/27/heres-twinkie-maine-school-kept-40-years-counting
    Cloning mammoths: 
    http://reviverestore.org/projects/woolly-mammoth/
    Science group’s letter to Congress: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2016/06/28/top-science-groups-tell-climate-change-doubters-in-congress-to-knock-it-off/
    Andy’s links:
    Pop-up forests: http://j.mp/popupforests
    North pole sounds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GqjvjiXp4E
    45 min
  • How do we talk about climate change?
    For those of us who think about climate change often -- like unhealthily often -- there's sometimes a sense that you're missing the story. Climate change is quite possibly the biggest story of all time. But it can feel remote, abstract, and lost in a sea of statistics.
    There's no way to do this story justice in just a few hundred words on a blog post. That's why we made Warm Regards.
    In this inaugural episode of Warm Regards, we'll tackle what it means to talk about climate change at this unique moment in human history.
    Warm Regards is hosted by Slate Magazine's Eric Holthaus, a self-professed weather and climate geek who Rolling Stone once called "the rebel nerd of meteorology."
    Co-hosting is Andy Revkin, veteran environment reporter for the New York Times who has covered climate change from all angles for 30 years, and Jacquelyn Gill, a paleoecologist at the University of Maine who is an actual, real-life climate scientist who flawlessly navigates social media.
    Together, they're opening a window into the world of people devoted to finding out what matters most about climate change.
    39 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.…