Climate Change. Human Caused Global Warming

From time to time, I do think about the future.

My dream is the picture we so frequently paint will be different.

Not the catastrophe that is so frequently forecast, but a world where

the pressing problems that cut off, circumvented with human ingenuity

and self-realization and mobilized by collaborative effort, a world where humans

decide the future to be sustainable.

And transformed and a transformed one that successfully reconciles climate change our

needs for food, energy, and all of life.

That is what I imagine we can achieve.

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It's inspiration Monday and today's experts offer their research

and insights on climate change.

Well, I've gathered a collection of inspiring and informative audio

clips from different episodes and guests of your positive imprint.

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featured in today's inspiration Monday at the conclusion of today's episode.

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Climate change.

Human caused global warming.

Our planet in a state of urgency.

Who's liable for the cleanup caused by climate change?

Glastonbury Festival was held in the United Kingdom, a new laboratory

stage that brought science to life.

Climate change was among the topics that festival goers learned about

through demonstrations, games

and music, including music from the Matt Palmer Band.

There is a song that was on that EP called The Flood,

which is about sea level rise.

I think it's a topic that in, in some places, perhaps it's

becoming better understood.

Well, professor Bindoff and his colleagues documented some of

the first evidence of the high melt rates of the Antarctic ice sheet.

And that voyage was the first ever against the

Antarctic continent in winter.

So we estimated that a melt rate, and we came to understand how much was being

lost by the ice sheet there in winter.

So it was transferring mass in the Antarctic ice sheet itself into the

oceans and causing sea level to go up.

Climate change is a massive shift of our planet and our

civilization is built on the climate we've had for thousands of years.

We also have natural changes that happen on the earth.

I was lucky enough to live in the rainforest for four

months, uh, measuring the gases that the trees produce there because they

affect the way clouds are created, and that affects the radiation

balance, which affects climate change.

We need more of those things so that we can turn off

the carbon emitting fossil burning infrastructure that we currently rely on.

The

ocean and the atmosphere system are, are very connected, and

any changes that are experienced in the ocean will impact the atmosphere.

Global

food security, does it really exist?

The fire season this year has been an extraordinary wake up call for

Australia and the wildfires in the USA.

And we are not seeing major governmental direction

towards a really different way of living on this planet so that

we can stay within its resources.

Sorghum is an important crop with climate change.

A true climate change issue that's changing the weather, which

changes a surf, which alters the beach erosion, which led to a multimillion

dollar home falling into the surface.

China knows it's got a big problem.

They have a huge pollution problem.

They know they have to shut down coal plants.

IPCC, which is the intergovernmental Panel on climate change,

IPCC was a.

A vision.

And that vision was an understanding that, so this was from measurements

of atmospheric CO2, and at that moment there was a decision made.

Now it was in the time of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.

I was lucky enough to be selected as a lead author on

the IPCC sixth assessment report.

They're important because they form the basis of the political negotiations

around greenhouse gas emissions.

And to trying to reduce those over time.

I'm trying to provide farmers with tools to mitigate

the impact of climate change.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Because the changes are happening so rapidly,

you're looking

at the world in a very tactile and tangible way.

Europeans are taking climate change seriously.

They're building most of the solar panels.

The planet nowadays,

you need to work in harmony with your environment

to have a strong society.

International governments get together and try to agree how they're

gonna reduce greenhouse gas emissions and curb the worst effects of climate.

Kids can go out there and do mushroom studies and see how

mushrooms are affected by climate change.

Then we also have observations from satellites so we can

see very good detail in how the surface of the ocean is changing through time.

These satellites are so accurate that they can measure a change in

sea level of about one inch from 800 miles

up.

They have themselves encouraged the acceleration of desertification, which

has crippling effects on economy, which result in increased violence.

Humans here are actually gonna have to get progressive

figure out how to be sustainable.

Collective working, I think, is really the future

of everything that we do.

Germany has a per capita success story going

on, where about 53% of their total electric mix comes from renewables.

We're testing the consciousness, uh, of our culture here and whether or not

people are good at complaining about climate change are, are they gonna

open up their wallets and invest?

For governments to listen, they have to be

told by the people that we need

change.

It seems a little bit insufficient to just keep doing this work

because it's really like monitoring the patient until he or she dies.

It's not actually intervening to fix the problem and maybe save

the life, and we don't think that the future of our children is as

important as, as our right now.

The world that they will live in is vastly different from the one that we've enjoyed.

It's about global food security on a planet where climate

change is affecting food supplies.

Actually, this is no longer about individual action.

Kenyan farmers have planted maize corn, but

with climate change, the rains

are, are less predictable.

It's no longer really a conversation about whether this is

happening, whether it's human caused; it's human caused, it's happening.

So the question now is what are the solutions?

How do we minimize our exposure to climate risk, which includes trying to coordinate

to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

It's all very well to have the science, but the

science doesn't make any progress until actually society accepts it.

And acts on it.

The hard part about conservation is you have to be successful

for eternity for it to matter at all; it only really matters if it works forever.

Climate Elvis.

I started taking improv classes, and I did this because I wanted to

be better at communicating about climate change and global warming.

I play Elvis and I sing an Elvis song that I wrote the lyrics for.

Uh, sort of a, a tribute to a jailhouse rock.

It's called the Climate Rock.

Oh, that's a climate you've got.

Maybe you take a bunch of weather and you average it together,

and you do the climate rock.

Oh yeah.

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So try to change your perspective in order to understand the reality of others.

Of course I thank my guests, Josh Willis Oceanographer, NASA's Jet Propulsion

Laboratory Principal Investigator Ocean's Melting greenland, episode 144.

Dr. Matt Palmer, physical oceanographer met Office Hadley Center, United Kingdom

lead author on the planet's most recent intergovernmental panel on Climate

Change, episode 178, Niall Robinson

climate scientist research and development algorithms, data and mathematics.

Met Office, Hadley Center, United Kingdom, and recently the developer

Relationship Manager for Weather and Climate with N-V-I-D-I-A.

Episode 1 78, Dr. Helen Phillips, physical Oceanographer Scientist Institute for

Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania, episode 80.

Terry Lilley, Marine biologist and filmmaker.

Episodes 154, 156, 160, 161, 164.

Mike Silvestrini Big Life Foundation, Energea Solar Company.

Episodes 1 57 and 1 58.

Kurt Polzin Physical Oceanographer,

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, episode 29.

. Nathan Bindoff Physical Oceanographer, oceans Ice and Climate Studies,

university of Tasmania, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies,

episodes 73 1 76 and 191.

Andrew Bracken, collaborator and partnership with Small Farmers globally.

Episodes 50 and 88.

Ray Schtidt Physical Oceanographer, woods Hole Oceanographic

Institution, episode 41,

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