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Today is inspiration Monday.

But quite a serious topic today.

This episode is inspired by oceanographers enviro capitalists and climate change scientists.

Terry Lilley, a Marine biologist, endangered species manager and reptile specialist

studies the coral reefs and Marine life around the world.

Through his underwater cinematography, some of his studies may be seen on national geographic.

YPI episodes, 154, 156, 160, 161 and 164.

Helen Phillips is a physical oceanographer with the Institute for Marine and Antarctic studies, university of Tasmania.

She studies circumpolar currents and the role of eddies in influencing the large scale currents.

Episode 80.

Kurt Polzin is a physical oceanographer with the woods hole, oceanographic institution, observing and modeling energy exchanges between oceanic current internal waves and turbulence.

He is a go-to oceanographer for instrumentation episode 29.

Mike Silvestrini is an enviro capitalist who has traveled the world observing climate change.

Seeing a need for big business, small business, you and me to invest in renewable energy around the world he began Energea.

Renewable energy investing for everyone.

Episodes 157 and 158.

Ray Schmitt is with woods hole, oceanographic institution.

He studies ocean mixing and micro structure, the global water cycle, terrestrial rainfall prediction using ocean salinity, episode 41.

Josh Willis is with NASA's jet propulsion laboratory.

He researches the ocean's role in the rapid melting of Greenland's ice.

This is part of his study on global climate change.

As an artist, he writes climate change songs and performs them as Climate Elvis episode 144.

Andrew Bracken creates public and private partnerships to invest in sustainable agriculture working with farmers in Africa and central and south America.

Where climate change is affecting food supply.

Today he is a program analyst with FEMA episodes, 50 88, 132.

Her health was affected.

At the age of 24, she co-founded and became CEO of eco wave power, a renewable energy company with a patented technology for the generation of clean electricity from ocean and sea waves.

Episode 96.

Nathan Bindoff is one of the world's leading climate change scientists.

He can be found at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic studies in Tasmania.

His research and areas of expertise are oxygen levels, temperature and salinity of the planet's changing oceans.

He is one of the first oceanographer scientists to discover ice melt.

Episode 73.

Inspiration, Monday, climate change, human caused global warming.

Our planet in a state of urgency.

Who's liable for the cleanup caused by climate change and coastal properties falling into the ocean and damaging public beaches and public coral reefs?

We're on this voyage of discovery, where the oceans are changing

We've got to the point now where we have to reach the peak of our carbon emissions

. Kurt Polzin: The, ocean can be a very challenging environment

Professor Bindoff and his colleagues documented some of the first evidence of the high melt rates of the Antarctic ice sheet.

We had the Nobel prize going to the scientific community who proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that climate change was a significant concern for humanity.

We know that heat must cross this current because that's how the earth maintains a stable climate

it's a human induced oxygen decline.

The fact that we have a livable climate is really due to the presence of our ocean.

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.

They've been planting this seed for centuries, and now it's not growing because of climate change.

We're studying the Antarctic circumpolar current it flows all the way around Antarctica and separates the warm waters of the subtropics from the cold Antarctic.

Sea level change was primarily through, thermal expansion.

So that's where you warm up the ocean and it expands.

And that's the biggest contributor to the rising sea levels.

A little over half a meter in diameter and it is three meters long, four meters long.

We lower it over the side and we let it go.

An Argo float is a, a little ocean robot.

The Kenyan government is providing this livestock insurance.

That's one way that the government is stepping in to help mitigate.

And you can see that pressure on the coal industry.

I think that was important to the United nations to see female representation in the energy business,

they'll completely deny proven facts.

It will be, expensive to deal with in terms of dollars and in terms of lives.

I'm super excited because he's going to show me the instruments that oceanographers use.

We have various radios and GPS and, pingers on it and flashers

another thing that they want to promote is implementation of new, renewable energy source.

Which can help the world mitigate the climate change.

We all need to do our part for the transition into renewable energy

the ocean and the atmosphere system are very connected and any changes that are experienced in the ocean will impact the atmosphere.

So you've got two weeks and your entire financial year hinges on those two weeks,

It's important to know what the salinity is for understanding how the ocean's going to move.

Out in the future, the big enchilada is going to be the ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica,

It was quite clear that renewable energy and wildlife conservation were going to be two industries that I wanted to be part of.

One of the important things that's going on in the ocean right now is that more heat is being carried under the ice shelves in Antarctica, causing the loss of ice from the base of these ice shelves.

They've suddenly become anti-science just because of the people that are supporting their, campaign.

It's really sad to see..

Yeah.

There was an explosion inside the pressure case.

Gosh.

Yeah.

We need more of those things so that we can turn off the carbon emitting, fossil burning infrastructure that we currently rely on.

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

kauai is shifting to all organic farming.

Climate has become a politicized issue.

Now that wasn't always true,

It's not tethered and it floats away.

We've seen dramatic increases in the amount of warming of the ocean and in the amount of heat that the ocean is storing.

These are very significant profound possibilities for, uh, future, uh, sea level in an unmitigated world.

And I think that growing up with such a background story is really what instilled in me, the motivation.

to give something back,

They're building most of the solar panels on the planet nowadays.

We can see global sea level rise, which is one of the main consequences of human caused global warming.

We're already committed to continuing temperature rise just based on how much carbon dioxide is in the atmosphere.

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A voyage of discovery

Hopefully emissions reductions, as we go into the future.

And we're not seeing major governmental direction towards a really different way of living on this planet so that we can stay within its resources.

You're talking about the melting of the ice sheets.

This boat can cost anywhere between 30 and a hundred thousand dollars a day.

I think if it goes to eight meters, we can have a ocean in the middle of Australia.

We're already locked in to two decades of sea level rise based on where we are now.

What happens if you continue to see the rising temperatures and the breaking of ice?

The first treaty was signed by, uh, president Bush

There would be at least a 20% increase in fire danger and catastrophic fire events would be more likely to occur.

It's not okay anymore,

Sorghum is an important crop, with climate change

It's transferring mass in the Antarctic ice sheet itself into the oceans

I testified in front of a US Senate committee about climate.

John McCain was the chair of the committee.

And John was very interested in climate change.

He asked all the right questions about the ocean's role in climate.

in Australia, we have what we call the Marine national facility.

So it's a ship called research vessel investigator,

sea going life is actually a very pleasant once you get into the rhythm of it, it's a very simple life.

I play Elvis and I sing an Elvis song that I wrote the lyrics for a sort of a to Jailhouse Rock.

This glorious boat ride, along the, Western Antarctic peninsula in between two mountain ranges.

We put them in the water and leave them to follow their programmed mission.

They report by satellite their observations.

And they're east of New Zealand now,

About one-third of modern day sea level rise is caused by this warming and expansion of the oceans.

A true climate change issue that's changing the weather, which changes the surf, which alters the beach erosion in which led to a multi-million dollar home, falling into the surf

The only way to really do this is to build more solar and wind assets.

And I was one of the babies that the was impacted by the negative effects of such explosion.

And I guess it was due to to the explosion in the air and I got the respiratory illness

Climate Elvis,

The world made a logical organization, the United nations framework convention on climate change.

In those meanders, Eddy is a form.

So it is a circular rings of current that have distinct water properties in the middle because they're a way of exchanging water from the cold side of the current, to the warm side of the current and the reverse.

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,

You can see the huge increase in renewables in the landscape.

Guilty of failing to grow things sustainably

We have climate change happening, which we know is being accelerated by human activity.

We're trying to provide farmers with tools to mitigate the impact of climate change because the changes are happening so rapidly.

Eddy is like a piece of the current that's broken away and it's got a circular vortex shape.

It's a huge international partnership.

You're looking at the world in a very tactile and tangible way,

We're losing our trade winds

and that voyage was the first ever against the Antarctic continent in winter.

that voyage was actually on the relatively newly commissioned Aurora Australis.

So that was the Australian icebreaker.

The unfortunate thing is in America.

Unlike Europe, the Europeans are taking climate change seriously.

you need to work in harmony with your environment to have a strong society.

There have been some famous, kills of crabs washed up on the Oregon coast.

And these are connected to this, um, changing oxygen levels, in the equatorial ocean, actually.

Frogs suck in water through their skin and they don't have kidneys and filters.

So if there's any problems with the water in the area, the frogs are going to be the first to die.

There are so many vested interests in our society and they have very loud voices and very deep pockets

When you're at sea, you take what the ocean gets you.

Sometimes it gets very angry and uncomfortable, other times it's also very beautiful.

I fell in love with that.

One of the things that we do is calculate sea level not just in each location, but averaged over the whole planet.

The kids can go out there and do mushrooms studies and see how mushrooms are affected by climate change.

All right.

That's great.

Well, that's the Foghorn coming directly to you from the Cape over here in Massachusetts?

Wave energy, which is a huge, renewable energy source to replace some of the more dangerous energy generation technologies.

We also have observations from satellites so we can see very good detail in how the surface of the ocean is changing through time.

And have themselves encouraged the acceleration of desertification, which has crippling effects on economy, which results in increased violence.

These satellites are so accurate that they can measure a change in sea level of about one inch from 800 miles up.

Helping the development of a renewable energy technology

As a scientist, do these numbers, do they alarm you?

Yes, they alarm me very much

Research in Antarctica itself, you get the most fantastic views.

You're privileged in a way, you, you see these ice sheets, there are cliffs right there in front of the ocean and they're brilliantly white.

Clear blue of the ocean and the contrast in color is striking.

Humans here are actually going to have to get progressive; figure out how to be sustainable.

Wave energy can produce twice the amount of electricity that the world produces now.

United States teamed up with the French space agency called Kineis,

So we w very well aware that all the ring comes from the ocean,

Germany has a per capita success story going on where about 53% of their total electric mix comes from renewables.

It was about the hope that we could collaborate globally

It's called the climate rock.

We only connect to the manmade structures

It was in the time of, uh, Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.

My particular favorite is the EMA fix profiling float bit similar to the Argo float except that this one has the added capacity to measure ocean currents.

we're testing the consciousness of our culture here and whether or not people are good at complaining about climate change, are they going to open up their wallets and, invest?

The European space agency are all teaming up together to continue building these satellites.

What we did find is that when the seawaters are warmer, they're more reactive to pollution.

The toxins are more active.

coral reefs die

You're paying engineers to do design work.

The cost to create it would be over a million dollars.

So it does require a genuine collaboration of all the nations to actually agree, and then follow a pathway to reduced emissions,

It's difficult to get human beings to think long-term,

For governments to listen, they have to be told by the people that we need change.

Seawater expands when it warms.

The reality is is that renewable energy very much is taking off.

It's now becoming a very urgent problem.

Harvesting of renewable energy.

Warming seas, we have actually proven this now.

The actual global water cycle because most of the water cycle is over the ocean.

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.

It's about global food security on a planet where climate change is affecting food supplies.

I feel personally that I've done the work I've made the measurements reported the science

And we don't think that the future of our children is as important as, as our right now.

And of course our children are in our right now, but the world that they will live in is vastly different from the one that we've enjoyed.

So imagine what could happen, what positive impact we could have if we would install a wave energy in every suitable country and city in the world.

Kenyan farmers have planted maze corn, but with climate change, the rains are less predictable

That carbon dioxide that we put in the atmosphere is going to be there for thousands of years.

Start doing things ahead of the time instead of after the fact.

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.

From time to time.

I do think about the future.

My dream is that 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 cutoff, 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's successfully reconciles climate change; our needs for food, energy, and all of life.