Climate Chat

In this Climate Chat episode we discuss the reasons that the world is not reducing emissions even though we are aware of the dangers of inaction and we understand the solutions we must implement. Much of the discussion revolves around climate scientist Kevin Anderson's response to a Guardian article, "Who are the polluter elite and how can we tackle carbon inequality?" https://www.theguardian.com/...

Climate Chat host Dan Miller interviews climate communications host Joe Romm about his recent white paper, "Why direct air carbon capture and storage (DACCS) is not scalable and ‘net zero’ is a dangerous myth" Here is a link to the paper: https://bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/web.sas.upenn.edu/dist/0/896/files/2023/11/DACCS5.0-11-8-23_RommJ.pdf Some of Joe's other recent writings can be accessed here: htt...

Climate Chat: Hansen: How We Know that Global Warming is Accelerating

In this Climate Chat, we discuss James Hansen's new "Global Warming in the Pipeline" paper. In the paper, Hansen shows why the IPCC's Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity (ECS) is too low, and their estimates of aerosol cooling are also too low. This has profound consequences for our climate future. Link to Hansen's paper: https://academic.oup.com/oocc/article/3/1/kgad008/7335889 Link to YouTube video...

This is the Climate Chat podcast for October 29, 2023. We discussed the recent paper titled "The 2023 state of the climate report: Entering uncharted territory" by William J Ripple, Christopher Wolf, Jillian W Gregg, Johan Rockström, Thomas M Newsome, Beverly E Law, Luiz Marques, Timothy M Lenton, Chi Xu, Saleemul Huq, Leon Simons, and Sir David Anthony King. Here is a link to the paper: https://a...

Climate Chat podcast from October 22, 2023. Discussion is based on the following article and paper: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-stopped-getting-greener-20-years-ago/ https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aax1396

Dr. Klaus Lackner was one of the first scientists to explore how to remove excess CO2 from the atmosphere. In this wide-ranging masterclass interview, Klaus and host Dan Miller discuss the feasibility, scalability, safety, and cost of large-scale Direct Air Capture (DAC) and sequestration of atmospheric CO2. Klaus Lackner is the director of Center for Negative Carbon Emissions and a professor in t...

Gaming legend Henk Rogers discusses his efforts to move the world to clean energy. Henk's Blue Planet Foundation: https://blueplanetfoundation.org More Climate Chat Club interviews: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3BXcpYFCzTndJ9Fisi32qg Time Stamps: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:00:56 Henk's Background 00:06:26 Hawaii's Energy Situation 00:10:26 Moving Hawaii on Energy 00:16:35 Training Climate Activ...

Part 2 of interview with Climate Scientist Kevin Anderson who provides a straight-talk & sobering view of our climate situation. During this audience Q&A section of the interview, Kevin covers a wide range of issues including de-growth, carbon pricing, and geo-engineering. See subject time stamps below. Listen to gain insight into the "radical future" that is ahead of us. Part 1: https://youtu.be/...

Climate communications expert & author George Marshall discusses how to effectively communicate about climate change to the broad public. George is the author of "DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change" and is the Founding Director of ClimateOutreach.org. Time Stamps: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:00:00 Welcome 00:02:27 George's background 00:05:57 Threat indicator...

Climate scientist David Archer of the University of Chicago discusses his research on the Ultimate Cost of Carbon (UCC): The climate impacts of release CO2 if the negative effects are not discounted. He also discusses the *very* long term impacts that our emissions of CO2 have on the climate (~500,000 years!). David's UCC paper can be accessed here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584...

Robert Howarth is Professor of Ecology & Environmental Biology at Cornell University. He is an expert on natural gas & methane and their impact on the climate. In this wide-ranging interview, Prof. Howarth discusses how methane's powerful warming capability (87X more effective than CO2 in warming the world over a 20-year period) and its high leakage rate from the extraction, transportation, and ut...

Climate Scientist Kevin Anderson provides a straight-talk & sobering view of our climate situation. How can we stay under 1.5/2ºC warming? What is the role of carbon capture? What does 4ºC warming mean? Have we reached a tipping point in public engagement? How should we think about Earth system feedbacks? Listen to gain insight into the "radical future" that is ahead of us. Part 2 is here: https:/...