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Warm Regards Podcast
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. Produced by Justin Schell, with transcription and social media support from Joe Stormer and Katherine Peinhardt. Our conversations are often honest and raw, as we talk with newsmakers, researchers, activists, policymakers, artists, and others as we push past the graphs and the headlines to get at the heart of what it means to live and work in a warming world. Our current season focuses on the often unexpected human stories behind climate data, from how it's collected to what we do with it. We're just as much a podcast about what it means to be human as we are about climate change--how we think, decide, love, grieve, change our behavior, and roll up our sleeves to tackle our toughest challenges.
A new podcast from Jacquelyn Gill of Warm Regards. Check out: Jax and Phoebe Make a Planet!Hi! We're Jax (Jacquelyn Gill) and Phoebe (Phoebe Cohen), and we’re baking an apple pie. But first, we have to make a planet — and not just any planet, but the best planet: Earth! It's a project that's been 4.56 billion years in the making, and we've got all the ingredients right here: Comets! Asteroids! Volcanoes! Oxygen! Water! Carbon! Now we just need a few billion years. Better preheat those ovens … !Jax and Phoebe Make a Planet is a limited-run podcast airing in 2024 that will explore all the major chance events in Earth history that needed to take place to get to the moment where two humans (us!) are able to hang out and bake an apple pie together. Along the way, our listeners will learn about why Earth is such an incredibly special place — and one worth protecting. Each episode will focus on an important moment that changed the trajectory of our planet, and life itself — the formation of the moon, the evolution of the oxygen-producing bacteria that created our breathable atmosphere, how plants made it onto land, the asteroid impact that ushered in the Age of Mammals, and more. Along the way, we’ll explore the origins of all the ingredients needed to make an apple pie (Sugar! Butter! Apples!). The show will include a blend of scripted essays, conversation, and interviews with the diverse scientists helping us understand how we got here, and why it matters. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!For more information, visit our website at https://makeaplanetpod.earth/For a version of this trailer with no music, visit: https://soundcloud.com/makeaplanetpod/introducing-jax-and-phoebe-make-a-planet-no-music
In the finale to our season on climate data, we continue our exploration of storytelling as a way to imagine and build climate futures. Jacquelyn and Ramesh first speak with climate reporter and podcaster Kendra Pierre-Louis about science fiction, representation, and her own shift from writing apocalyptic stories to working on the solutions-focused podcast How to Save a Podcast. Next, they speak with Mary Heglar, co-creator and co-host of the Hot Take newsletter and podcast (along with Amy Westervelt), about the authors and works that influenced how she saw her role in a warming world, including Octavia Butler, James Baldwin, and more, as well as the importance of grappling with climate grief and the historical injustices that have given rise to the consequences of climate change, both now and in the future.
You can find a transcript of this episode on our Medium page: https://ourwarmregards.medium.com/building-our-climate-futures-through-storytelling-pt-2-w-kendra-pierre-louis-and-mary-heglar-dff39a779957
Kendra Pierre-Louis
Her personal website: https://www.kendrawrites.com/
Follower Kendra on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KendraWrites
A republished version of her essay about Wakanda and climate change: https://time.com/5889324/movies-climate-change/
All We Can Save: https://www.allwecansave.earth
Subscribe to How to Save a Planet: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/howtosaveaplanet
Mary Heglar
Follow Mary on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MaryHeglar
Listen to Hot Take and subscribe to their newsletter: https://www.criticalfrequency.org/hot-take
Climate Change Isn’t the First Existential Threat https://zora.medium.com/sorry-yall-but-climate-change-ain-t-the-first-existential-threat-b3c999267aa0
Feel Something, Learn Something, Do Something: A Care Package for Climate Grief https://medium.com/@maryheglar/feel-something-learn-something-do-something-a-care-package-for-climate-grief-394cc83933d2
Climate and the Personal Essay — A Reading List https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2020/02/11/climate-personal-essay-reading-list/
The big lie we’re told about climate change is that it’s our own fault: https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/10/11/17963772/climate-change-global-warming-natural-disasters
Octavia Butler
Parable of the Sower: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/70962fbf-178f-40f5-882d-510a9f46c70e
Official website of the Octavia Butler Estate: https://www.octaviabutler.com
The Octavia Butler Legacy Network: http://octaviabutlerlegacy.com
The Expanse & Climate Change
https://io9.gizmodo.com/if-you-care-about-earth-you-should-watch-the-expanse-1836708366
The Day After Tomorrow & Climate Awareness
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2014/11/the-long-melt-the-lingering-influence-of-the-day-after-tomorrow/
https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/before-and-after-the-day-after-tomorrow/
Katharine Hayhoe: the most important thing we can do about climate change is talk about it: https://www.ted.com/talks/katharine_hayhoe_the_most_important_thing_you_can_do_to_fight_climate_change_talk_about_it?language=en
Eric Holthaus: On Being a Climate Person: https://thecorrespondent.com/98/on-being-a-climate-person/12973890622-af2e1b83
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In the first episode of our two-part finale of our season on climate data, we’re going to focus on fiction, not facts: specifically, on the world-building, future-crafting writers who tell stories to warn us, teach us, inspire us, and motivate us to work for the future of our choosing. In speaking with authors Eric Holthaus and Kim Stanley Robinson, they discuss how hope, empathy, and, of course, climate science and climate data, informed their most recent work, Eric’s The Future Earth and Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future.
You can find a link to a full transcript of this episode on our Medium page:
https://ourwarmregards.medium.com/building-our-climate-futures-through-storytelling-part-1-feat-5b2a8077e4b1
You can follow Eric Holthaus on Twitter: https://twitter.com/EricHolthaus
You can read more about and purchase his book, The Future Earth, here: https://bookshop.org/books/the-future-earth-a-radical-vision-for-what-s-possible-in-the-age-of-warming/9780062883162
Finally, you can subscribe to Eric’s newsletter, The Phoenix, here: https://thephoenix.substack.com
Kim Stanley (Stan) Robinson:
You can read more about and purchase his book, The Ministry for the Future, here: https://bookshop.org/books/the-ministry-for-the-future/9780316300131
A comprehensive, though unofficial, website dedicated to Stan’s work: http://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info
On the power of speculative and science fiction:
‘We’ve already survived an apocalypse’: Indigenous writers are changing Sci-Fi: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/books/indigenous-native-american-sci-fi-horror.html
Afrofuturism, Africanfuturism, and the language of Black speculative literature: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/afrofuturism-africanfuturism-and-the-language-of-black-speculative-literature/
On climate fiction:
Climate fiction: Can books save the planet? https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/08/climate-fiction-margaret-atwood-literature/400112/
The influence of climate fiction: an empirical survey of readers: https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article/10/2/473/136689/The-Influence-of-Climate-FictionAn-Empirical
The rise of apocalyptic novels: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210108-the-rise-of-apocalyptic-novels
With the world on fire, climate fiction no longer looks like a fantasy: https://grist.org/climate/with-the-world-on-fire-climate-fiction-no-longer-looks-like-fantasy/
Amy Brady’s “Burning Worlds” column for the Chicago Review of Books:
https://chireviewofbooks.com/category/burning-worlds/
On futurology:
Smithsonian will celebrate 175 years with an exhibit about the future: https://www.npr.org/2021/03/01/972409626/smithsonian-will-celebrate-175-years-with-an-exhibit-about-the-future
10 ways science fiction predicted the future: https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/live-lessons/10-ways-science-fiction-predicted-future/z6dynrd
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In this episode of Warm Regards, we talk to two Indigenous scientists about traditional ecological knowledges and their relationship with climate and environmental data. In talking with James Rattling Leaf, Sr. and Krystal Tsosie, Jacquelyn and Ramesh discuss how these ideas can challenge Western notions of relationality and ownership, how they have been subject to the long history of extraction and exploitation of Indigenous communities (practices which continue today), but also how Indigenous scientists and activists link sovereignty over data created by and for Indigenous people to larger sovereignty demands.
You can find a transcript of this episode on our Medium page: https://ourwarmregards.medium.com/indigenous-climate-knowledges-and-data-sovereignty-4fc756b9476e
James Rattling Leaf, Sr. North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center https://nccasc.colorado.edu
Rising Voices: https://risingvoices.ucar.edu
GEO Indigenous Alliance https://earthobservations.org/indigenoussummit2020.php
Oceti Sakowin http://aktalakota.stjo.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=8309 https://americanindian.si.edu/nk360/plains-belonging-nation/oceti-sakowin
Tribal Climate Leaders Program: https://cires.colorado.edu/news/tribal-climate-leaders-program
Krystal Tsosie
You can follow her on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kstsosie
Native BioData Consortium https://nativebio.org
United States Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network https://usindigenousdata.org
CARE Principle for Indigenous Data Governance https://datascience.codata.org/articles/10.5334/dsj-2020-043/
Finally, you can listen to Good Fire at their website or wherever you get your podcasts: https://yourforestpodcast.com/good-fire-podcast
Further reading:
Several of Kyle Whyte’s papers informed out team’s understanding as we prepared this episode:
Indigenous Climate Change Studies: Indigenous Futures, Decolonizing the Anthropocene https://kylewhyte.marcom.cal.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/IndigenousClimateChangeStudies.pdf
Indigenous Lessons About Sustainability Are Not Just “For All Humanity” https://kylewhyte.marcom.cal.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/IndigenousInsightsintoSustainabilityarenotforAllHumanity.pdf
Too late for indigenous climate justice: Ecological and relational tipping points https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/wcc.603
Dominique M. David-Chavez and Michael C. Gavin, A global assessment of Indigenous community engagement in climate research. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aaf300/meta
Eve Tuck & Wayne Wang 2012, Decolonization is not a metaphor https://clas.osu.edu/sites/clas.osu.edu/files/Tuck%20and%20Yang%202012%20Decolonization%20is%20not%20a%20metaphor.pdf
For more on how climate change impacts Shishmaref, see Elizabeth Marino’s book, Fierce Climate Sacred Ground: https://www.alaska.edu/uapress/browse/detail/index.xml?id=528
Scott Kalafatis et al., Ensuring climate services serve society: examining tribes’ collaborations with climate scientists using a capability approach: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-019-02429-2
Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals http://www7.nau.edu/itep/main
This Teen Vogue article is a nice introduction to land acknowledgements https://www.teenvogue.com/story/indigenous-land-acknowledgement-explained
For more on the Land Back movement: https://landback.org/
This Flash Forward episode (with lots of links for further reading) https://www.flashforwardpod.com/2020/11/10/land-back/
The 2Land2Furious project by the Métis in Space podcast creators https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/back-2-the-land-2land-2furious http://www.metisinspace.com
Jacquelyn would especially like to thank Katherine Crocker, who has deeply influenced her own thinking about Indigenous sovereignty and ethical partnerships. Check out her essay, Cricket Egg Stories: http://carte-blanche.org/hiyoge-owisisi-tanga-ita-cricket-egg-stories/
This episode of Warm Regards focuses on two more facets of decision making based on data about how the climate is changing. We first talk to Beth Gibbons, the Executive Director of the American Society of Adaptation Professionals. Beth talks to us about the different ways that people working in the field of climate adaptation use climate data to plan for present and future climate conditions, including the different consequences of climate change (sea level rise, water shortages, stronger storms, and more). We also discuss how adaptation efforts can respond to and work to alleviate historical inequalities that make climate change worse for marginalized communities. Next, Jacquelyn and Ramesh talk with Dr. Jola Ajibade, an Assistant Professor of Geography at Portland State University. Dr. Ajibade’s work looks at not just the importance of how we talk about different forms of climate migration (such as planned retreat, managed retreat, and others) but also how it has taken different forms around the world, with uneven levels of success and equity for the individuals and communities moving due to climate change.
You can find a transcript of this episode on our Medium page: https://ourwarmregards.medium.com/adapting-and-moving-in-a-warming-world-with-elizabeth-gibbons-and-dr-jola-ajibade-f889dbffcbd1
What is climate adaptation, and how has it been neglected? https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2019/12/what-is-climate-change-adaptation-and-why-does-it-matter/
For more on how adaptation has been neglected: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/10/adaptation-is-the-poor-cousin-of-climate-change-policy
Adaptation isn’t surrender, it’s survival: https://www.wired.com/story/climate-adaptation-isnt-surrender-its-survival/
What is climate resilience? https://www.c2es.org/site/assets/uploads/2019/04/what-is-climate-resilience.pdf
The case for managed retreat: https://www.politico.com/news/agenda/2020/07/14/climate-change-managed-retreat-341753
Equitable retreat: the need for fairness in coastal communities: https://e360.yale.edu/features/equitable-retreat-the-need-for-fairness-in-relocating-coastal-communities
Climate migration on NHPR’s Outside/In Radio: http://outsideinradio.org/shows/climate-migration
Beth Gibbons is the Executive DIrector of the American Society of Adaptation Professionals. https://adaptationprofessionals.org
You can follow Beth on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ehgibb?lang=en
You can also follow ASAP on Twitter: https://twitter.com/adaptpros
Jola Ajibade is an Assistant Professor of Geography at Portland State University.
You can learn more about her work at her website: https://sites.google.com/pdx.edu/idowu-ajibade/about
And follow her on Twitter: @JolaAdapts
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This episode of Warm Regards focuses on the intersections, but also the disconnects, between environmental justice and climate justice movements. First, Jacquelyn and Ramesh talk with Dr. Sacoby Wilson about his work with communities throughout the United States who are facing the consequences of environmental racism, and his beliefs that scientists’ publications are not enough to enact meaningful change for communities struggling with environmental injustice. We then shift to a more global frame, speaking with Dr. Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on climate colonialism, and how climate change is inextricably linked with the histories of colonialism, and how we can avoid continuing that legacy in a warming future.
To view a transcript of this episode, see our Medium page: https://ourwarmregards.medium.com/environmental-justice-and-climate-justice-with-dr-sacoby-wilson-and-dr-dr-ol%C3%BAf%E1%BA%B9%CC%81mi-o-t%C3%A1%C3%ADw%C3%B2-4c9ac0a8587d
Show Notes Environmental justice factsheet from the University of Michigan: http://css.umich.edu/factsheets/environmental-justice-factsheet
World Resources Institute report on the largest emitters: https://www.wri.org/blog/2014/11/6-graphs-explain-world-s-top-10-emitters
Why climate change is an environmental justice issue: https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2020/09/22/climate-change-environmental-justice/
What is climate justice? https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/07/what-is-climate-justice/
Climate change is also a racial justice problem: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2020/06/29/climate-change-racism/
The US is the richest country in the world, with the largest wealth gap: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/business/united-states-is-the-richest-country-in-the-world-and-it-has-the-biggest-wealth-gap.html
For more about how the response to Hurricane Katrina caused gentrification in New Orleans: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-12/new-orleans-gentrification-tied-to-hurricane-katrina
We still don’t know how many people died in Hurricane Katrina: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/we-still-dont-know-how-many-people-died-because-of-katrina/
Don’t repeat the mistakes of the Katrina recovery: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/14/opinion/hurricane-katrina-irma-harvey.html
For more about how communities of color are marginalized in terms of solar power: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/solar-powers-benefits-dont-shine-equally-on-everyone/
To read more about Dr. Sacoby WIlson’s work, visit his University of Maryland website: https://sph.umd.edu/people/sacoby-wilson
Dr. Wilson directs the Community Engagement, Environmental Justice and Health Lab https://sph.umd.edu/laboratory-resources/community-engagement-environmental-justice-and-health-ceejh
The Lab can also be found on Medium and Twitter: https://ceejhlab.medium.com https://twitter.com/ceejhlab
Fumes Across the Fenceline https://www.naacp.org/climate-justice-resources/fumes-across-fence-line/
Coal Blooded https://www.naacp.org/climate-justice-resources/coal-blooded/
Toxic Waste and Race (1987) https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1310/ML13109A339.pdf
Toxic Waste and Race at Twenty https://www.ucc.org/environmental-ministries/environmental-ministries_toxic-waste-20/
Yessenia Funes's story on Earther https://earther.gizmodo.com/im-scared-study-links-cancer-alley-air-pollution-to-hi-1843484042
To learn more about Dr. Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò and his work, see his website: http://www.olufemiotaiwo.com
You can also follow him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OlufemiOTaiwo
Selected publications by Dr. Táíwò: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/10/10/case-for-climate-reparations-crisis-migration-refugees-inequality/
https://theconversation.com/how-a-green-new-deal-could-exploit-developing-countries-111726
“The Great Climate Migration,” an article by ProPublica and the New York Times, recommended by Dr. Táíwò https://www.propublica.org/series/the-great-climate-migration
This episode of Warm Regards continues our exploration of the often unexpected stories behind climate data. First we explore historical climatology records with Dr. Cary Mock. These are the measurements and observations of things like wind, pressure, rainfall, and more found in archives and historical societies around the world. Then, we turn to the present and talk with Dr. Theresa Crimmins, Director of the National Phenology Network, about how volunteers can contribute their own climatological and ecological observations. In doing so, they can better understand not only how climate change is affecting their immediate environment, but also assist in large-scale climate change research.
For a transcript of this episode, visit our Medium page: https://ourwarmregards.medium.com/historical-and-volunteer-climate-data-with-cary-mock-and-theresa-crimmins-a4f7f7370f23
Show Notes For more on the weather of The Long Winter and the work of meterologist Barbara Mayes Boustead, check out this Boing Boing article by Maggie Koerth:
https://boingboing.net/2012/12/11/the-meteorology-of-little-hous.html
You can also check out Barbara’s series of recorded presentations about the weather of the Little House books:
http://www.bousteadhill.net/lauraslongwinter/
This essay on the Little House books and the “myth of white self-sufficiency” explores the ways that the authors’ political agendas heavily influenced the series:
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/in-promoting-the-myth-of-white-self-sufficiency-the-little-house-books-rewrite-history/16545/?fbclid=IwAR3xRlBjiHUuqFoOxC71MqyCl-BRCmSI1z3AuA1mgf40uDrNWWh-1kYk-yM
To learn more about the Schoolhouse Blizzard and its influence on weather forecasting, check out the following:
David Laskin’s book, The Children’s Blizzard
https://bookshop.org/books/the-children-s-blizzard/9780060520762
This interactive website by the National Weather Service (complete with historical accounts):
https://noaa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=3b68adee4e9545b7abdd7355ab7fe367
To learn more (including some neat photos of historical documents) about the ‘Year Without a Summer,’ check out this website from the Massachusetts Historical Society:
https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2016/11/1815-the-year-without-a-summer/
You can learn more about Dr. Mock’s historical climatology work, including photos of the kinds of documents he works with, at his website:
http://artsandsciences.sc.edu/geog/research/climatelab/historical/historical.html
You can also follow him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cary_mock?lang=en
Here are some other community and citizen science projects mentioned in the episode that you can get involved in:
Zooniverse: https://www.zooniverse.org SciStarter: https://scistarter.org CoCoRHAS: https://www.cocorahs.org ISeeChange: https://www.iseechange.org
Visit the National Phenology Network's website to learn more about the organization's history and current projects:
https://www.usanpn.org
Explore the data visualization tool mentioned in the episode: https://www.usanpn.org/data/visualizations
To start contributing your own observations through Nature's Notebook, visit the project's website:
https://www.usanpn.org/natures_notebook
You can also download the app on the iOS App Store or Google Play:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/natures-notebook/id508465801?ls=1 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.usanpn.android.naturesnotebook
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This episode of Warm Regards explores apocalyptic narratives, the role they play in inspiring—or limiting—climate action, and what it means to be hopeful about the future in a changing climate. Jacquelyn and Ramesh talk with Zeke Hausfather about what the latest climate science and data tell us about how much warming we can expect by 2100, and then with Diego Arguedas Ortiz about the different kinds of hope that can help lead to climate action.
For a transcript of this episode, see our Medium page:
https://ourwarmregards.medium.com/apocalyptic-narratives-climate-data-and-hope-with-zeke-hausfather-and-diego-arguedas-ortiz-8ed6506260d9
Show Notes:
You can follow Zeke Hausfather on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hausfath
You can also find out more information and see his work at the Breakthrough Institute: https://thebreakthrough.org/people/zeke-hausfather
For a more in-depth explanation from Zeke on the RCP 8.5 scenario, see his post on Carbon Brief: https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-the-high-emissions-rcp8-5-global-warming-scenario
Read the IPCC 1.5 Report that both Zeke and Diego mentioned: https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/
Diego's original article on climate change and hope for the BBC: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200109-is-it-wrong-to-be-hopeful-about-climate-change
You can follow Diego on Twitter: https://twitter.com/arguedasortiz?lang=en
Learn more about Mothers of Invention at their website: https://www.mothersofinvention.online
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This episode is all about the intersections of climate data and climate activism. Jacquelyn and Ramesh speak with two climate activists, Meg Ruttan Walker and Lucky Tran, who have come to this work from very different backgrounds, but who both realize that it takes a diversity of voices and tactics to achieve success.
For a transcript of this episode, see our Medium page:
https://ourwarmregards.medium.com/climate-data-and-climate-activism-with-meg-ruttan-walker-and-lucky-tran-23dc78122c44
Show Notes:
Emma Marris’ Nature article about scientists getting political: https://www.nature.com/news/is-donald-trump-pushing-more-scientists-towards-political-activism-1.21130
314 Action: https://314action.org/
New York Times article about scientists finding a political pulse: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/06/science/donald-trump-scientists-politics.html
Jacquelyn’s Rally for Science remarks: https://contemplativemammoth.com/2017/02/19/science-for-everyone-my-rallyforscience-remarks/
H. Holden Thorp's recent editorial, "Let's Not Overthink This": https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6519/887
Meg Ruttan Walker on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TricksyRaccoon
Material Memory Podcast: https://material-memory.clir.org/category/podcast/
350.org: https://350.org
More about the importance of 350ppm https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-the-world-passed-a-carbon-threshold-400ppm-and-why-it-matters
Photos of the climate protest that Ramesh’s students organized: https://photos.app.goo.gl/PKF8bPu7YVYmEuCB8
Lucky Tran's website: https://www.luckytran.com/
Lucky Tran's 2020 talk at the American Geophysical Union, "How Activism and Movements Advance Science Policy and Social Justice": https://youtu.be/diuud5_zT-w
March for Science: https://marchforscience.org/
The IPCC Special Report on 1.5°C Warming, as opposed 2°C Warming: https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/
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This episode of Warm Regards, the second of two that explore climate data as art, looks at more immersive and embodied experiences of climate data. First, an exploration of the multimedia installation World Without Ice, from producer Justin Schell, and then a conversation between Jacquelyn and Daniel Bird Tobin, who evocatively utilizes theater to help people imagine sea level rise in their own immediate communities. If you haven’t listened to our first episode climate data as art, which featured conversations with Jill Pelto and the founders of the Tempestry Project, you can find it in our podcast feed or at our website:
https://warmregardspodcast.com/episodes/climate-data-and-art-part-1-the-tempestry-project-s1!2effc
For a full transcript of this episode, please visit our Medium page: https://ourwarmregards.medium.com/climate-data-and-art-part-2-world-without-ice-and-daniel-bird-tobin-66f2b3e0290c
Show Notes
For more information on American opinion polling on climate change impacts, check out the latest Yale Project on Climate Change Communication surveys from April 2020:
https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/climate-change-american-mind-april-2020b.pdf
The website for the World Without Ice installation: https://www.WorldWithoutIceInstallation.com
World Without Ice, the book by Dr. Henry Pollack that inspired the work: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6677106-a-world-without-ice
You can also learn more about the works of the three composer-artists who created the sonic and visual dimensions to the project:
Michael Gould: https://www.gouldmusic.com/
Stephen Rush: http://stephenjrushmusic.com/
Marion Tränkle: http://mariontraenkle.eu/ For much more detail on the dataset used by Rush for the composition, visit the GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP), visit its site on the Godard Institute for Space Studies: https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/
Note, the values used in the story to calculate the musical notes are from the meteorological year (December-November), rather than the calendar year (January-December). Calendar year calculations artificially split the coldest months of the year into different seasons, which can result in slightly skewed data.
You can learn more about John Cage at the site run by the John Cage Trust: https://johncage.org
If you want to start with one of Cage’s books, go with Silence: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/765651.Silence
Here are links to the other ice-based art projects mentioned:
Ice Watch: https://olafureliasson.net/archive/artwork/WEK109190/ice-watch
Luftwerk’s Requiem: A White Wanderer: http://luftwerk.net/projects/white-wanderer/
Matthew Burtner’s Glacier Music: https://www.ravellorecords.com/catalog/rr8001/
For more information about potential climate change impacts on sea level rise, this is a nice explainer from the NOAA website:
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-global-sea-level
You can find out more about Daniel Bird Tobin and his work, including Flooding the Beach, at his website: https://www.danielbirdtobin.com
Center for Communicating Science at Virginia Tech: https://communicatingscience.isce.vt.edu
You can learn more about Peter Sforza’s work at his website: https://www.cgit.vt.edu/people/biographies/peter-sforza.html
Finally, Daniel Bird Tobin wanted to make sure he thanked Patty Raun and Carrie Kroehler for their leadership of the Center.
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This episode of Warm Regards, the first of two on the intersections of climate data and art, will feature conversations with Emily McNeil and Justin Connolly, founders of the Tempestry Project, which uses climate data to create patterns that people can knit into scarves and tapestries, and Jill Pelto, a visual artist who incorporates climate data into a variety of natural landscapes. First, though, some thoughts on the US presidential election from our very relieved hosts.
Show Notes
Please visit our Medium page for a photos and images from the episode, as well as a full transcript:
https://ourwarmregards.medium.com/climate-data-and-art-part-1-the-tempestry-project-and-jill-pelto-d7bc6882c6c7
You can find out more about the Tempestry Project and get your own kit at their website: https://www.tempestryproject.com/
You can see some of the Tempestries created for US National Parks at this gallery: https://spark.adobe.com/page/SynDUSs9izWdc/
To learn more about Warming Stripes, and create a custom visualization for your area, visit the project's website: https://showyourstripes.info/
For more about Jill Pelto and her work, visit her website: http://www.jillpelto.com/
You can also purchase prints of Jill Pelto's work at her Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/GlaciogenicArt
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Some reflections from Jacquelyn and Ramesh on our season so far and a note that we'll be taking a brief intermission until after the US November election.
For a full transcript of this episode, please visit our Medium page: https://ourwarmregards.medium.com/reflections-so-far-and-an-intermission-3bf751415423
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As the US presidential election nears, we wanted to re-share a conversation we had on Warm Regards in October of 2018 with Nathaniel Stinnett, the founder and executive director of the Environmental Voter Project. Many of the things we discussed with him then, especially why lots of environmentalists don't vote, are just as relevant today. After the 2018 conversation, Nathaniel shares an update about the organization's work leading up to this year's presidential election and how you can get involved beyond voting.
To learn more about and get involved in the Environmental Voter Project, visit: https://www.environmentalvoter.org/
Make sure you have a plan to vote: IWillVote.com
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This episode of Warm Regards, part of our season-long exploration of the often unexpected stories behind climate data, builds on our last episode's conversation with Amy Westervelt and Emily Atkin on climate disinformation. We speak with John Cook, from Skeptical Science and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication, and Lauren Kurtz, the Executive Director for the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund, about the different ways that those who care about climate science and climate action can fight back against myths, disinformation, and intimidation.
The full transcript of this episode can be found on our Medium page: https://medium.com/@ourwarmregards/fighting-back-against-climate-disinformation-and-intimidation-with-john-cook-and-lauren-kurtz-5a444e0ab673
Show Notes To find out more about John Cook's work, visit the following sites:
Skeptical Science https://www.skepticalscience.com
Cranky Uncle https://crankyuncle.com
The Center for Climate Change Communication https://www.climatechangecommunication.org
For more on the FLICC method: https://skepticalscience.com/history-FLICC-5-techniques-science-denial.html
To download your own copy of the Debunking Handbook: https://www.skepticalscience.com/Debunking-Handbook-now-freely-available-download.html
To learn more about the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund, visit: http://csldf.org
For more on Dr. Maria Caffrey and her censorship fight with the National Park Service, see this Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/25/trump-administration-climate-crisis-denying-scientist
To learn more about "ClimateGate," see this article from the Union of Concerned Scientists: https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/debunking-misinformation-about-stolen-climate-emails
Finally, how do we know it's not the sun causing global warming? This NASA article details the specific evidence that shows the sun alone can't be responsible: https://climate.nasa.gov/faq/14/is-the-sun-causing-global-warming/
Remember: It's Happening, It's Us, It's Serious, Experts Agree, and There's Hope.
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In this episode, part of our season long exploration of climate data, Jacquelyn Gill discusses the long history of fossil fuel industry-perpetuated climate disinformation with investigative journalists Amy Westervelt and Emily Atkin, and how they use data to hold these companies accountable.
A full transcript of the episode can be found at: https://medium.com/@ourwarmregards/disinformation-over-data-with-amy-westervelt-and-emily-atkin-b5c7aeba0613
Show Notes
You can find both our guests on Twitter: Amy Westervelt: https://twitter.com/amywestervelt
Emily Atkin: https://twitter.com/emorwee
For more of their work, check out the following sites:
Amy's podcast Drilled: https://www.criticalfrequency.org/drilled
Amy's website Drilled News: http://drillednews.com
Emily's newsletter, Heated: https://heated.world/
Merchants of Doubt, from Naomi Oreskes and Geoffrey Supran, is one of the most comprehensive histories available for how industries have weaponized the language of science against smoking, environmental protection, and climate change.
Book: https://www.merchantsofdoubt.org/
Documentary https://www.sonyclassics.com/merchantsofdoubt/
ExxonKnew is the latest project from Oreskes, that extensively documents how Exxon knew about the disastrous effects of climate change for years and still actively pushed against regulations that would have lessened its impacts:
https://exxonknew.org
For more on Exxon using cartoon characters, see this article from Amy in Heated: https://heated.world/p/when-exxon-used-mickey-mouse-to-promote
This article from Drilled News goes in depth on Ivy Lee (in addition to part of Season 3 of Drilled): https://www.drillednews.com/post/the-world-s-first-publicist-worked-for-big-oil
An archived version of the Student’s Guide to Global Climate Change can be found here: https://archive.epa.gov/climatechange/kids/index.html
It is no longer available on the current EPA website: https://envirodatagov.org/aar-9-epa-discontinues-updates-to-climate-change-websites/
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This episode, part of our season-long look at the unexpected stories and effects of climate data, features two conversations about what people believe about climate change and what causes them to change those beliefs. First, we talk to Jenn Marlon to get an update on the changing numbers in the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication’s Six Americas survey. Then, we talk to former Representative Bob Inglis, who very publicly changed his beliefs on climate change, and now works to convince other fellow conservatives to support action on climate change.
For a full transcript of this episode, please check out our Medium page: https://medium.com/@ourwarmregards/changing-climate-beliefs-with-jenn-marlon-and-bob-inglis-2be646310ecc
Show Notes
Dr. Jenn Marlon: https://environment.yale.edu/profile/jennifer-marlon
Bob Inglis: https://www.climatechangecommunication.org/portfolio-view/bob-inglis/
Global Warming’s Six Americas, from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication: https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/about/projects/global-warmings-six-americas/
Take the Six Americas Super Short Survey (SASSY) to see which category you’re in: https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizations-data/sassy/
Our first conversation with Jenn on Warm Regards, from April of 2018: https://warmregardspodcast.com/episodes/there-is-no-red-and-blue-america-because-theres-s1!ba97c
For more on environmentalists and how they vote (and often don’t vote), listen to our conversation with Nathaniel Stinnett from the Environmental Voter Project: https://warmregardspodcast.com/episodes/the-surprising-truth-about-environmentalists-and-s1!aa6c1
https://www.environmentalvoter.org
"Climate Is Taking On a Growing Role for Voters, Research Suggests," the New York Times story that talks about the rising position of climate change as an issue public: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/24/climate/climate-change-survey-voters.html#click=https://t.co/xUFZmqJiL0
You can find out more about the work of Dr. Rachel Tilling and Dr. Kaustubh Thirumalai at their websites:
Rachel Tilling: https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/rachel.l.tilling
Kaustubh Thirumalai: https://thirumalai.geo.arizona.edu
Inspired by the data story you heard and want to share yours with us? We’d love to hear it. You can leave us a voicemail by calling 586–930–5286 or record yourself and email it to us at ourwarmregards@gmail.com.
This episode, part of our new season about the often unexpected stories behind climate data, features conversations with two scientists involved in the wide-ranging field of climate modeling, from its origins in the first half of the 20th century all the way to the latest developments and uses of these important tools.
For a full transcript of the episode, please visit our Medium page: https://medium.com/@ourwarmregards/the-past-and-future-of-climate-models-conversations-with-warren-washington-and-geeta-prasad-39f5045e8a2a
WISCON, the annual feminist science fiction and fantasy conference: http://wiscon.net/
More on Ramesh’s Mario Bros. analogy: https://twitter.com/drrambio/status/1011347458557923330?s=21
For more information on our two guests, Dr. Warren Washington and Dr. Geeta Persad, please see the links below:
Dr. Washington’s website: https://staff.ucar.edu/users/wmw
Dr. Washington’s autobiography, Odyssey in Climate Modeling, Global Warming, and Advising Five Presidents: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154784225
Video Oral History with Dr. Warren Washington by Oregon State University http://scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/oh150/washington/
Dr. Geeta Persad’s website: https://www.ggpersad.com
The publication mentioned by Dr. Persad on the different effects of emitting identical aerosols in different parts of the world: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05838-6
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This episode, part of our season about the often unexpected stories behind climate data, features a conversation with Dr. Kim Cobb, who turned a heartbreaking experience in the field into a new purpose not just for her own life, but for the lives of many around her.
For a transcript of this episode, please visit our Medium page: https://medium.com/@ourwarmregards/warm-regards-data-kim-cobb-and-translating-data-to-action-9750a38573ee
You can get more information about Dr. Kim Cobb and her work on her personal page and her Lab page: https://eas.gatech.edu/people/cobb-dr-kim https://cobblab.eas.gatech.edu/
You can also find her on Twitter: https://twitter.com/coralsncaves/
You can also find out more about Georgia Tech's Carbon Reduction Challenge program: https://www.carbonreductionchallenge.org/
Inspired by the data story shared by Dr. Nicole Miller-Struttmann? You can learn more about her work on the effects of climate change on pollinator ecosystems at her website: https://sites.google.com/view/millerstruttmann/home
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Warm Regards is back! This is the first episode of our new season focused on the often unexpected human stories behind climate data. If you’re as excited about the new season as we are, please share this episode with someone you think should listen to it. You can find the show on your podcast app of choice, as well as on the following platforms:
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As part of the new season, we’ve launched a brand new website at https://www.WarmRegardsPodcast.com.
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Here are some links and resources if you’d like to learn more about what we discussed in the episode.
If you want to learn more about the work that happens in Ramesh and Jacquelyn’s research, visit the websites for their respective Labs:
Laungani Lab: https://www.patreon.com/warmregards BEAST (Biodiversity & Environments Across Space and Time) Lab: https://jacquelyngill.wordpress.com/
Carbon Isotopes: If you want to read the paper where Ramesh first learned about the different carbon isotopes and what that means for climate change, you can find it here:
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2307/1941591
You can also watch this video on the topic from It’s Ok to Be Smart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myxVsYI4WZk
Milankovitch cycles: NASA has an in-depth article on how Milankovitch cycles work, including a number of helpful animations:
https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2948/milankovitch-orbital-cycles-and-their-role-in-earths-climate/
Carbon Dating and Dinosaurs: If you, like Ramesh, thought that carbon dating is used for dinosaur bones, this article explains how C-14 can only be used for dating things less than 50,000 years old:
https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geology/dinosaur-bone-age.htm
Relatedly, this article from the Smithosonian discusses how pollution and climate change is making carbon dating more difficult:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/carbon-dating-crucial-scientific-technique-jeopardy-thanks-our-pollution-heres-easy-way-fix-it-180961345/
Finally, for a transcript of this episode (and to see some pictures of Ramesh in the Australian rainforest and Jacquelyn in Acadia National Park), head over to our show’s Medium page:
https://medium.com/@ourwarmregards/warm-regards-data-telling-human-stories-412654503f4
A short update from the Warm Regards team and a preview of what you can expect from us in our new season, launching in early 2020. Thanks for your continued support!
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Ramesh Laungani and Sarah Myhre cover the overlap of the climate and extinction crises before inviting on Rev. Susan Hendershot and Rev. Brian Sauder of Interfaith Power and Light for a discussion around climate action across beliefs and worldviews. Finally, in unexpected science Sarah shares new research on how children influence their parents' thoughts on climate.
LINKS!! - Interfaith Power and Light: https://www.interfaithpowerandlight.org/ - https://www.interfaithpowerandlight.org/about/staff-and-board-of-directors/
The IPBES "extinction" report - https://www.ipbes.net/news/ipbes-global-assessment-summary-policymakers-pdf
The study on parents, their children and climate: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-019-0463-3
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In a very timely and poignant conversation, Jacquelyn Gill, co-host Sarah Myhre and geologist Jane Willenbring share their personal experiences of when they found themselves in uncomfortable and unsafe situations while doing research in the field.
Follow Jane on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jkwillenbring
An update on her story: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/04/boston-university-fires-geologist-who-sexually-harassed-women-antarctica
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Jacquelyn Gill and Ramesh Laungani chat about the Green New Deal and bittersweet arrival (almost) of spring before welcoming journalist author and "culture doctor" Annalee Newitz on to talk about communicating climate science through science fiction.
In Everyday Science, how climate change can make a butterfly's favorite snack toxic. - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180403120004.htm
Check out Dr. Newitz on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Annaleen Her podcast on Sci-fi: https://www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com/ And her writing: https://www.techsploitation.com/
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Jacquelyn Gill introduces new rotating co-host Mary Annaïse Heglar and welcomes Dr. Katharine Wilkinson, VP of Communication and Engagement for Project Drawdown, for a chat about gender equality, climate change, remembering self-care for climate leaders and much more.
In Everyday Science, the team discusses a new study about a potential critical role of clouds: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2019/02/25/we-could-be-on-the-verge-of-killing-off-clouds-and-returning-to-a-hothouse-earth/
Check out Dr. Wilkinson's TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/katharine_wilkinson_how_empowering_women_and_girls_can_help_stop_global_warming And more: https://www.drawdown.org/staff/katharine-wilkinson https://twitter.com/DrKWilkinson
Subscribe to Mary's tweets and Medium writings: https://twitter.com/MaryHeglar https://medium.com/@maryheglar
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It's been an exceptionally long and harsh winter in North America and it has Jacquelyn thinking about what is and isn't in our control. On the topic of climate, such thoughts can lead to the controversial topic of geoengineering.
Jacquelyn and Ramesh have a fascinating chat with Dr. Jane Flegal, Program Officer for Environment at The Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust, about the current state of geoengineering.
Also, in unexpected science, Ramesh talks about new research involving cycles of CO2 levels in the ocean and coral reefs.
Here's Dr. Flegal's geoengineering reading list:
Jack Stilgoe’s book, Experiment Earth: https://www.amazon.com/Experiment-Earth-Responsible-innovation-geoengineering/dp/0415732379
Oliver Morton’s book, The Planet Remade: https://press.princeton.edu/titles/10657.html
Stilgoe et al. on geoengineering and responsible innovation: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733313000930
Flegal and Gupta on arguments for and geoengineering that depend on invoking the global poor as a rationale: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10784-017-9377-6
NAS reports on geoengineering or climate intervention: https://nas-sites.org/americasclimatechoices/other-reports-on-climate-change/climate-intervention-reports/
Jon Symons’s critique of the Oxford Principles: https://thebreakthrough.org/journal/no.-8-winter-2018/geoengineering-justice
The Oxford Principles: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-012-0675-2
Clare Heyward and Steve Rayner on asymmetrical critique (often by social scientists) of geoengineering interventions vs. conventional climate interventions: http://geoengineering-governance-research.org/perch/resources/workingpaper7heywardrayneracuriousasymmetry.pdf
Code of conduct for geoengineering by Prof. Anna-Maria Hubert: https://www.ucalgary.ca/grgproject/files/grgproject/revised-code-of-conduct-for-geoengineering-research-2017-hubert.pdf
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Ramesh Laungani and guest co-host Joe Mascaro speak with young activists Olya Wright and Lily Gardner from iMatter Youth about their efforts to bring about real climate reform. It's a conversation that will leave you impressed, inspired and hopeful for the future.
Also, Ramesh and Joe share some news about climate making bees leaner and data on what the public thinks about climate change.
For more info, check out: www.imatteryouth.org/ www.sunrisemovement.org/
Here's the Fat Bees study: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180628105009.htm
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Co-hosts Jacquelyn Gill and Ramesh Laungani welcome scientist, columnist and author Dana Nuccitelli on to take a broad look at the media landscape when it comes to talking climate change.
Also: trilobites, bears and berries, oh my! - https://www.sciencealert.com/we-now-know-what-killed-the-sea-life-in-the-world-s-deadliest-mass-extinction https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170823121333.htm
More Dana on Yale Climate Connections - https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/author/dana/ The Guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/profile/dana-nuccitelli Skeptical Science pages - https://skepticalscience.com/posts.php?u=1683 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - https://thebulletin.org/biography/dana-nuccitelli/ His book - https://www.abc-clio.com/ABC-CLIOCorporate/product.aspx?pc=A4372C
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Jacquelyn and Ramesh chat with Columbia University climate scientist and storyteller Kate Marvel about a fairy tale she wrote. Also, do Dragons like pizza?
Check out "Slaying the Climate Dragon:" https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/hot-planet/slaying-the-climate-dragon/
or hear Kate read it on NPR: https://www.npr.org/2018/10/20/659122551/a-climate-scientist-on-slaying-the-climate-dragon
More Kate: https://twitter.com/DrKateMarvel http://www.marvelclimate.com/
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Co-hosts Jacquelyn Gill and Ramesh Laungani talk to Nathaniel Stinnett of the Environmental Voter Project about the problems and the potential of environmentalists' track record on voting, and just in time for Election Day in the U.S. (Special thanks to Justin Schell for editing this episode!)
Links!! - Washington Monthly -- "Planet Earth Gets A Ground Game" - https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/april-may-june-2018/planet-earth-gets-a-ground-game/
New York Times -- Visionaries: Taking On Climate Change https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/24/science/taking-on-climate-change.html
EVP: https://www.environmentalvoter.org/leadership
Stinnett on Twitter - https://twitter.com/NCStinn
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Co-hosts Ramesh Laungani and Sarah Myhre chat with scientist turned satellite guru Joe Mascaro of Planet Labs about how cubesats and satellite constellations can change the way we understand and address climate change.
Planet Labs: https://www.planet.com/ Joe: https://twitter.com/joe_mascaro
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Ramesh Laungani, Sarah Myhre and Andy Revkin chat about Carbon Fees and also talk to Steve Valk with Citizens' Climate Lobby about work across all aisles on climate solutions.
More on the Washington State Carbon Fee: https://ballotpedia.org/Washington_Initiative_1631,_Carbon_Emissions_Fee_Measure_(2018)
Steve and CCL: https://citizensclimatelobby.org/author/steve/
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Co-hosts Jacquelyn Gill and Ramesh Laungani went to the Ecological Society of America meeting and spoke to scientists from around the world about climate, science and more.
It's an episode filled with a surprising amount of hope for the future and a blast from the past for Choose Your Own Adventure fans.
More on ESA - https://esa.org/neworleans/
The article Jacquelyn references at the beginning of the show: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/08/21/this-is-the-day-that-the-climate-change-fight-was-obviously-lost/
In case you don't know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choose_Your_Own_Adventure
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Co-hosts Jacquelyn Gill and Sarah Myhre have an honest and sometimes hilarious conversation with Jennifer Bernstein of USC about the tension between the women's movement and the green movement.
Also, Myhre breaks down some startling new research on our oceans.
Key links:
Bernstein's feature "On Mother Earth and Earth Mothers" - https://thebreakthrough.org/index.php/journal/past-issues/issue-7/on-mother-earth-and-earth-mothers
That scary study on ocean chemistry: https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/en/researchoutput/constraining-the-evolution-of-neogene-ocean-carbonate-chemistry-using-the-boron-isotope-ph-proxy(13a35cd5-48fc-4c75-9b48-9c6fb7339f22).html
More on the study in plain English: https://www.forbes.com/sites/priyashukla/2018/07/26/oceans-expected-to-become-more-acidic-than-theyve-been-in-14-million-years/
Bernstein's website: https://spatial.usc.edu/team-view/jennifer-m-bernstein/
Follow Bernstein: https://twitter.com/jenn_bernstein
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Co-hosts Jacquelyn Gill and Ramesh Laungani speak to Melissa Watkinson, who researches the social and cultural dimensions of ocean acidification in the Pacific Northwest.
Watkinson is a Citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and grew up in the Pacific Northwest where she considers the Salish Sea her home.
Also, Jacquelyn shares the nasty truth about vanilla flavoring.
Here's a study guide to go along with the show, courtesy of Melissa.
- Guidelines for Considering Traditional Knowledges in Climate Change Initiatives: https://climatetkw.wordpress.com/
-Partnering with Indigenous Communities to Anticipate and Adapt to Ocean Change: https://wsg.washington.edu/partnering-with-indigenous-communities-to-anticipate-and-adapt-to-ocean-change/
Rising Voices - a collaboration among western and indigenous scientists for climate solutions: https://risingvoices.ucar.edu/
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The Zero Hour movement is organizing a Youth Climate lobby day on July 19 and a march July 21 in Washington, D.C. to deliver a set of demands to lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
Zero Hour fundraising leader Madelaine Tew and logistics head Zanagee Artis spoke with hosts Jacquelyn Gill and Ramesh Laungani on the most recent episode of Warm Regards.
More on the March and Zero Hour - http://thisiszerohour.org/
Correction Note: Misool Resort that Zanagee mentioned is in Indonesia and not Thailand.
Also be sure to listen to the whole episode for Jacquelyn and Ramesh's takes on the surprise retirement announcement from Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and their favorite socks. Yes, socks, because we aren't so serious 100 percent of the time.
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The Warm Regards team is thrilled to introduce Ramesh Laungani as a rotating co-host of the show, appearing alongside Jacquelyn, Andy (and others - stay tuned) every few episodes.
In his introductory episode, Ramesh and Jacquelyn to discuss his biochar research, his work with students, and what it’s like being a climate change communicator in the Corn Belt.
Links:
Can Dirt Save the Earth": www.nytimes.com/2018/04/18/magazine/dirt-save-earth-carbon-farming-climate-change.html
1000 STEM Women: www.doane.edu/1000-stem-women-project
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We’ve all heard about red and blue states making up our politically polarized nation. But when it comes to climate change, there are more than just two Americas. In fact, Jennifer Marlon from the Yale Program on Climate Change (YPCCC) Communication says there’s actually six Americas.
More details and a listening guide over at our Medium site -
https://bit.ly/2Gvce1J
Host Andy Revkin chats with Georgia Tech's Kim Cobb about the importance of paleoclimate and what records of the earth and environment’s previous eons can tell us about where we are, where we’re headed and what can be done. Paleoclimate finally has a seat at the table in climate matters, which leads to a related discussion on the importance of diversity in the climate community.
Find Kim on Twitter @CoralsnCaves https://twitter.com/coralsncaves
Related links: http://pastglobalchanges.org -The chapter on Paleoclimate from the most recent IPCC report: https://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch6.html
Links to Andy's anecdotes:
Andy’s Anecdotes:
Andy’s story on Lonnie Thompson and Mt. Kilimanjaro — http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/19/world/a-message-in-eroding-glacial-ice-humans-are-turning-up-the-heat.html
“Study Finds Storm Cycles Etched in Lake Beds — http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/25/us/study-finds-storm-cycles-etched-in-lake-beds.html
Visiting Sea Ice — http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/02/science/earth/02arct.html
Response diversity — https://www.slideshare.net/Revkin/response-diversity
Renowned scientist and communicator Katharine Hayhoe joins Jacquelyn for an enlightening discussion on how best to communicate with climate deniers. Katharine shares concrete and insightful ideas on engaging with those who ignore, dismiss, or outright deny climate change.
Follow Katharine on twitter at: https://twitter.com/KHayhoe
Climate Voices: http://climatevoices.org/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi6RkdaEqgRVKi3AzidF4ow
Jacquelyn Gill and paleoclimatologist Dr. Sarah Myhre talk about the deep misogyny facing women scientists in online communities, and often in their places of work and study. Jacquelyn and Sarah don't hold back, delving into their own stories of harassment and sexism in science.
Find Sarah on twitter at: twitter.com/SarahEMyhre Check out her website at: sarahmyhre.com/
Sarah's article on The Stranger: www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/11/17/25572044/the-culture-of-harassing-and-demeaning-women-scientists
Just in time for Thanksgiving, Jacquelyn Gill speaks with Victoria Ligon, an expert in food waste from the University of Arizona. If you think you hate wasting food more than most people, you might be surprised to hear what her years of studying the issue have taught her. The good news is she's also got plenty of tips to make sure your grocery bill doesn't go straight to the trash, for the big meal and beyond.
https://cals.arizona.edu/fcs/grad/victoria_ligon
Andy Revkin is joined by Joel Clement, the Department of the Interior's whistleblower. Joel talks about his job at DOI, his resignation and "scathing letter", and his concern for Alaska's Indigenous communities.
Find Joel on twitter at @jclement4maine
Image courtesy of Tim Evanson: https://www.flickr.com/photos/timevanson/
Eric Holthaus and Miami meteorologist John Morales hash out their thoughts on a relentless hurricane season, the desperate situation in Puerto Rico, and coastal flooding and “king tides” in Florida.
Follow John Morales on twitter at twitter.com/JohnMoralesNBC6
Andrew Revkin and Jacquelyn Gill talk with Sara Moore about climate adaptation and staying hopeful in what feels like very troubling times.
Sara Moore's story on climate despair: https://ensia.com/voices/climate-trauma/
More from Sara: http://pacificadaptation.blogspot.com
In one of the most hopeful episodes yet, Jacquelyn and Eric are joined by Mustafa Santiago Ali, Senior Vice President of Climate, Environmental Justice, & Community Revitalization of the Hip Hop Caucus, (and formerly of the EPA) to discuss the roots of the environmental movement and its intersection with climate change. But first up - a primer from Eric on the effects of climate change on Hurricanes Harvey & Irma.
Read Mustafa's letter to Scott Pruitt here: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09032017/epa-environmental-justice-mustafa-ali-flint-water-crisis-dakota-access-pipeline-trump-scott-pruitt
Follow Mustafa on twitter @EJinAction and check out his work out at: HipHopCaucus.org, PeoplesClimateMusic.com, RespectMyVote.com, and follow @HipHopCaucus on everything.
In this bonus episode of Warm Regards, Jacquelyn and Andy are joined by Kaustubh Thirumalai (paleoclimatologist and postdoctoral researcher at Brown University), Scott St. George (paleoclimatologist and Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Minnesota), and Michelle LaRue (ecologist at the University of Minnesota) to nerd out about all things Game of Thrones and climate change. Listen in as they discuss topics like the ecological effects of the wall, how seasons may work in Westeros, winter fashions, and who plays the role of scientists in the GoT world.
Jacquelyn’s blog post can be found here: https://contemplativemammoth.com/2016/06/23/winter-is-coming-climate-change-and-biodiversity-beyond-the-wall/
Follow our guests online: Kau’s website (www.kaustubh.info/) and twitter (twitter.com/holy_kau) Michelle’s website (www.drmichellelarue.com)and twitter (twitter.com/drmichellelarue) Scott’s website (scottstgeorge.strikingly.com) and twitter (twitter.com/scottstgeorge)
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In this quick response episode, former American Meteorological Society President Marshall Shepherd joins Eric Holthaus and Andy Revkin to talk about the ongoing tragedy in Texas, what the unprecedented storm means for the future and how we think about extreme weather. More from Marshall: https://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/ Donate to Harvey relief and Google will match your donation: https://www.google.org/harvey-relief/
Jacquelyn, Eric and Andy speak with Esau Sinnok, a 19-year-old climate activist from Shishmaref, a village that has been dealing first-hand with the impacts of a changing climate for over a decade.
https://www.aspenideas.org/speaker/esau-sinnok
Jacquelyn Gill and Andy Revkin talk with Richard Heinberg of the Post Carbon Institute about the dangers of relying on technology to bail us out when it comes to climate change. We also hear the late Pete Seeger's thoughts on science. Links!: http://noapp4that.org/
More of Andy's conversation with Seeger on the Future and the Internet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTpkKt0B4SI&t=120s https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/21/on-flu-strains-folkies-and-faith-in-science/?_r=0
Population scenarios: http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol28/39/28-39.pdf https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/the-population-cluster-bomb/
After a hiatus of a few months, Eric Holthaus, Andrew Revkin and Jacquelyn Gill are back and ready to bring you up to speed on how they've witnessed the first six months of climate news under the Trump administration. The crew also makes a deep dive into a controversial article that went viral this month.
Links worth clicking:
Aspen Ideas Festival - https://www.aspenideas.org/session/carbon-dividends-consensus-climate-solution
Reaction to the NY Mag article: https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/scientists-explain-what-new-york-magazine-article-on-the-uninhabitable-earth-gets-wrong-david-wallace-wells/
The ‘Porn’ Factor in the Climate Fight: https://nyti.ms/2ux3eSR
Climate Science Meets a Stubborn Obstacle: Students - Amy Harmon https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/04/us/education-climate-change-science-class-students.html
Theme music by Kevin Hartnell @ kevinhartnell.com
Warm Regards is taking a hiatus until mid-summer. We're working on exciting new content and ideas for the show, and look forward to relaunching bigger and better!
Continue to connect with us on social media: Facebook: facebook.com/WarmRegardsPodcast/ Show Twitter: twitter.com/ourwarmregards Eric's Twitter: twitter.com/EricHolthaus Andy's Twitter: twitter.com/Revkin Jacquelyn's Twitter: twitter.com/JacquelynGill
One of the most fascinating climate change stories of the year comes from Ross Anderson at The Atlantic. In "Welcome to Pleistocene Park", Ross writes about Pleistocene Park, a reserve in Siberia that aims to stave off climate change by attempting to recreate the conditions of the Pleistocene, turning the reserve into a grassland steppe ecosystem by importing large herbivores. The article also explores the possibilities of bringing back the woolly mammoth, specifically for a place like Pleistocene park.
Read the full article at The Atlantic - https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/pleistocene-park/517779/
Ross Anderson joins hosts Jacquelyn Gill and Andy Revkin for a discussion on this compelling project and related issues like long timescales, our understanding of the anthropocene, the ethics of rewilding, and the culture of elephants.
Check out the recommended reading list below:
Pop-up forests: https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/03/warming-arctic-tundra-producing-pop-up-forests/
Elephant memories: https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/on-elephants-memories-human-forgetfulness-and-disaster/
Links to IIASA’s 2300 projections are here (with context on long time scales): https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/14/three-long-views-of-life-with-rising-seas/
We've staved off next ice age (Jim Hansen in 03 and many others since): http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/11/science/when-will-the-next-ice-age-begin.html
Jacquelyn's blog on mammoth cloning: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/cloning-woolly-mammoths-its-the-ecology-stupid/
Stephen Jay Gould's Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: https://www.amazon.com/Times-Arrow-Cycle-Geological-Jerusalem-Harvard/dp/0674891996
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In this week’s show, we’re talking about the growing movement to get more scientists to consider public office. Why do we need more scientists in office in the first place?
Jacquelyn and Andy will talk with Shaughnessy Naughton, a chemist who ran for the House of Representatives in 2016. That experience inspired her to found 314 Action, an organization that helps scientists start campaigns.
Jacquelyn will also talk about how she’s grappled with what it means to stand up for science in an era of alternative facts and outright attacks on America’s scientific infrastructure. For many in the scientific community, this is totally new territory.
Learn more about 314 Action: http://www.314action.org/
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We were expecting to take a longer break while preparing ourselves for 2017. But it’s clear we need to respond to the whirlwind first week of Donald Trump’s presidency –- specifically what it means for science and climate change. We’ll also spend some time on the emerging resistance movement in favor of science.
In this week’s episode, we detail the different ways that the Trump Administration may be systematically undermining climate science. There are a lot of bad signs. But there’s still a lot we don’t know.
We are now living in a country in which our head of state is clearly lying to us about even mundane things -- about things that can’t possibly have happened the way he says they did. How are we supposed to carry on as normal? This is the theme of today’s conversation.
As normal, the episode features dialogue between Eric Holthaus, Jacquelyn Gill and Andy Revkin.
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This episode will be the last in Season 1 of Warm Regards.
We’ve had a tremendously positive response to the podcast so far from you, our listeners, and from the larger podcast community. We’re going to be back in action this spring.
This week, we’re going to run down the four biggest climate stories of the year, as voted on by that ultimate arbiter of truth—Twitter. The stories include:
Number 4: Coral bleaching.
Number 3: Paris Accord becomes international law.
Number 2: Earth’s warmest year.
Number 1: Arctic sea ice continues to its spectacular decline.
Joining Eric, Jacquelyn and Andy this week is Kim Kobb, a climate scientist at Georgia Tech who specializes in collecting and analyzing paleoclimate information from corals, caves, and the global water cycle.
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This week, we’re talking with Dr. Jonathan Foley, executive director at the California Academy of Sciences.
The California Academy bills itself as the greenest museum on the planet and one of the most future-focused scientific institutions in the world. He's the author of over 130 scientific articles and has had numerous accolades from the nation's most respected scientific institutions, not only for his global change research, but also his commitment to public outreach, including popular articles in National Geographic, The New York Times, and Scientific American.
In this episode, we talk about the importance of museums and childlike wonder, Jonathan’s writing, tipping points, land use, eating habits, personal responsibility, and so much more.
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Show links:
Jonathan’s piece about his mother’s death: https://the-macroscope.org/science-a-deathbed-promise-and-a-mothers-gift-36cc36ca1a9c#.4q069ygx7
Jonathan’s TED Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_foley_the_other_inconvenient_truth
Andy on the hashtag #iamascientistbecause
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/07/scientists-swarm-around-the-twitter-hashtag-iamascientistbecause/
About Andy’s move to ProPublica: https://www.propublica.org/atpropublica/item/andrew-revkin-to-join-propublica-as-senior-reporter-on-climate-change
It’s been a long week and a half. We’re still processing everything that’s happening, just like all of you. We might never understand it, but it’s clear the consequences for the climate are immediate and have already begun.
This week’s episode will be a little bit different. We’ve recorded three separate interviews with leaders on the environment, and asked them what they’re doing in response to the election results. We’ve also asked them what we can do.
Our first interview is with Jeff Hayward, who is vice president of landscapes and livelihoods for the Rainforest Alliance. He spoke to us from Marrakech, Morocco where he is attending COP 22.
Our second interview is with Katherine Crocker, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Michigan and a member of the Kaw Nation. Days after the election, she travelled to support the water protectors of the Standing Rock Sioux in North Dakota.
Read about her journey here: http://katherinecrocker.com/2016/11/09/going-to-north-dakota-stem-activism-part-ii-posted-before-part-i/
Our final interview is with Renee Lertzman, who works to understand the psychology of how we deal with environmental issues. Her words are especially useful in this time of shared anxiety and concern and uncertainty.
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The climate stakes of last night's election are so huge as to be almost unfathomable. Hundreds of years, dozens of generations. We can't get around that fact. The future of humanity -- and all the species we share this planet with -- is much more murky now than it was 24 hours ago. That's not an exaggeration.
This week, Eric, Jacquelyn and Andy are answering three questions:
What changes on climate, now that Trump is President-Elect?
How are people in the climate community responding?
Where do we go from here, as a community, and as climate-focused individuals?
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This week, we’re going to tackle what might be in store when it comes to climate after the election. Specifically, we’re going to examine the future of the Republican party – and sketch out a scenario that could lead to full-blown bipartisan climate policy in the near-term. Maybe.
We recorded this episode November 1, exactly a week before the election. At this point, the race continues to tighten.
Whether or not Trump becomes president, some factions of the Republican party are already gearing up to make sure future conservative presidential candidates aren’t so out of touch with their thinking on the world’s most important issue.
Our special guest this week is squarely at the center of what the emerging Eco-Right.
Alex Bozmoski is the director of strategy and operations for the Energy and Enterprise Initiative at George Mason University, also known as RepublicEn, where he’s helped lead an educational initiative to help motivate his fellow conservatives on climate change.
His journey from climate denier and troll to clean energy campaigner could serve as an example, in a single person, of the future of the Republican Party.
Links:
Check out RepublicEn: http://www.republicen.org/
Eric’s New Yorker article quoting Alex: http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/how-the-reaction-to-trump-could-be-good-for-the-climate
WA state carbon tax swap: https://ballotpedia.org/Washington_Carbon_Emission_Tax_and_Sales_Tax_Reduction,_Initiative_732_(2016)
FL solar ballot initiative: https://ballotpedia.org/Florida_Solar_Energy_Subsidies_and_Personal_Solar_Use,_Amendment_1_(2016)
Television journalists don’t give much airtime to climate change. In all of 2015, American broadcast networks only collectively devoted 146 minutes to climate stories – a 5 percent drop from 2014.
And that’s why David Gelber and Joel Bach decided to launch their own series on climate change.
Gelber was a producer at 60 Minutes for 25 years. Bach worked at the news magazine for seven years. At the urging of Bach, the two started working on more climate-related stories. And it changed their careers.
“The more we did, the more we sort of realized that this is absolutely is the biggest story out there – there’s just nothing that touches this,” said Gelber, in an interview on Warm Regards.
They both started pushing for more climate stories. “We became kind of nags to our bosses,” said Gelber.
When they both realized there was a limit to climate coverage, they assembled a group of producers and celebrities and set off on their own – creating “Years of Living Dangerously,” a gripping climate series that is now in its second season.
“What’s different from [the stories] we did at 60 Minutes is that each of these correspondents – whether it’s Sigourney Weaver or Jack Black or Dave Letterman – the go on kind of a journey. And they learn things as they go,” said Gelber.
In this week’s podcast, Gelber talks about the origin of the series and the difficulties in getting the audience to care about the “biggest story out there.”
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Resources:
Why Gelber and his team are pushing a carbon tax: http://yearsoflivingdangerously.com/learn/news/put-price-carbon/
Andy remembers Jacquelyn’s colleague, Gordon Hamilton: http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/10/24/remembering-gordon-hamilton-an-edge-pushing-prober-of-eroding-ice/
Watch the first episode of “Years” here: http://yearsoflivingdangerously.com/story/david-letterman-india/
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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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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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.
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/
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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/
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
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.