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In this episode, we have Scott Amyx of Amyx Ventures, an internationally recognized thought leader and venture capitalist. Scott shares his mission of helping cities worldwide develop economic resilience and combat climate change. He delves into his background, growing up during South Korea's challenging times, and discusses his work with smart, sustainable cities. Scott highlights the importance of identifying comparative advantages and pursuing demand-driven technologies. He also outlines his 'STRIVE' methodology for achieving success by doing uncomfortable yet essential tasks. Finally, Scott offers insights into creating a disciplined, humble leadership culture for impactful organizational growth. Website: scottamyx.com Books: scottamyx.com/books Newsroom: scottamyx.com/newsroom Business website: amyxventures.com Personal website: scottamyx.com Previous Episode: iam122-internationally-recognized-thought-leader-venture-capitalist-and-author-passionate-about-building-sustainable-cities Check out our CEO Hack Buzz Newsletter–our premium newsletter with hacks and nuggets to level up your organization. Sign up HERE.  I AM CEO Handbook Volume 3 is HERE and it's FREE. Get your copy here: http://cbnation.co/iamceo3. Get the 100+ things that you can learn from 1600 business podcasts we recorded. Hear Gresh's story, learn the 16 business pillars from the podcast, find out about CBNation Architects and why you might be one and so much more. Did we mention it was FREE? Download it today!

Embark on a journey of transformation as we delve into the powerful connection between pain and innovation with Scott Amyx. In this compelling exploration, discover how confronting challenges head-on can ignite unparalleled creativity, propelling entrepreneurs towards unprecedented success. Join us in unlocking the secrets of leveraging discomfort, scarcity, and diverse perspectives to not only survive but thrive in the dynamic landscape of entrepreneurship. Welcome to a narrative that transcends boundaries, sparking inspiration and reshaping the way we perceive both adversity and achievement. Brace yourself for a thought-provoking odyssey – where pain becomes the catalyst for groundbreaking innovation!   Chapter Stamps:   Introduction (00:00:00)   Background and Early Ventures (00:01:26)   Scott's Transformation (00:04:30)   Pain and innovation (00:07:55)   Key secret to entrepreneurship (00:17:35)   Pullout Quotes:   Pain is a critical prerequisite to innovation and self-transformation; it's the fuel that propels us towards our greatest growth and development."   "Scarcity and pain are so critical in entrepreneurship; when resources are limited, creativity flourishes, leading to truly innovative solutions."   "Real outsized innovation comes when we look to distant domains, gaining inspiration from fields that seemingly have nothing to do with our own. It's about thinking outside the familiar to find groundbreaking solutions."   "In dealing with pain, what you do determines your trajectory, your success, your results. It's about turning challenges into opportunities for growth."   "The underdog situation is not just about being an underdog; it's about thinking outside the box and being creative when resources are limited. It's in those situations that true innovation occurs.   Socials:   Websites: https://astorperkins.com/ & https://scottamyx.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottamyx/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/scott_amyx/ X: https://twitter.com/ScottSAmyx     Disclaimer: Please be aware that the opinions and perspectives conveyed in this podcast are solely those of our guests and do not necessarily represent the views, ideologies, or principles of Super Entrepreneurs Podcast, its associated entities, or any organizations they represent or are affiliated with. 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Mr. Scott Amyx is an internationally recognized thought leader, venture capitalist, speaker, and author on smart cities, exponential technologies, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution. He has appeared or spoken on TV, New York Times, TIME, Forbes, TechCrunch, TEDx, CIO, Washington Post, WIRED, Forrester, G20, European Commission, United Nations, ITU, Pew Research Center, Environmental Defense Fund, and other major media and events. Mr. Amyx was voted the Most Influential Leader in Smart Cities and awarded the 50 Most Impactful Smart Cities Leaders by Inc. Magazine, Internet of Things Institute, HP Enterprise, World CSR Congress, and numerous institutions. He received the Cloud & DevOps World Award for Most Innovative. He is an IBM IoT Futurist, Tribeca Disruptor Foundation Fellow, Singularity University/ Smart City Accelerator Mentor, and National Sloan Fellow/ Woodrow Wilson Fellow. In addition, Mr. Amyx has been nominated to the World Economic Forum as a committee member for the Future of the Internet. Website: http://scottamyx.com/ Books: https://scottamyx.com/books/  Newsroom: https://scottamyx.com/newsroom/  Business website: http://amyxventures.com/  Personal website: https://scottamyx.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottamyx/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AmyxIoT Videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNnVp5hGUCRoY-XpPDoGPMA/videos?disable_polymer=1 Detailed Bio: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DDGRaKPRTIbh05xJf0xAd9xBPkTndFsfjF_SQG1v31g/edit?usp=sharing  Episode Link: https://iamceo.co/2018/12/05/iam122-internationally-recognized-thought-leader-venture-capitalist-and-author-passionate-about-building-sustainable-cities/

Scott Amyx Keynote at Astor Perkins April 27 2022

Scott Amyx’s opening keynote at Astor Perkins’ All Things Space & Survival event on January 8, 2021.

This episode will look at the rise of the R&D-minded CEO, and leadership that is now taking more personal responsibility for directing and inspiring innovation as it becomes an ever more vital element of business survival and success. Today's guest is the Author of How your CEO makes or breaks your innovation, Scott Amyx.  Key Moments From Scott's Interview -R&D is no longer a line item within the organization, it's a symbol of survival and growth. -The road to becoming obsolete for organizations that are not innovating could be 3 years or less. -Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk, and Jensen Huang are examples of the R&D CEO. -The CEO role has a statistically significant impact on the level of a company's R&D investment. -CEOs need to learn how to be storytellers of their technical solutions and they can only do that with an R&D orientation. VISIT> patsnap.com/ep4 Grab Your Copy Of The Ebook at patsnap.com/tag/ebook Today's episode was brought to you by PatSnap. Learn more about PatSnap at www.patsnap.com This podcast was fully transcribed and can be found at patsnap.com/ep4

Greg wraps up his conversation with Scott Amyx, a venture capitalist, speaker, and author. Scott shares his interest and surviving and thriving in space and raising capital for DNA sequencing.

Joining Greg this week is Scott Amyx, a venture capitalist, speaker, and author. Greg and Scott discuss how entrepreneurs can impact the defense sector and how humans will adapt to the robot age.

119 Scott Amyx How to Harness Innovation On the show today I interview author, futurist and TEDx Speaker, Scott Amyx. Grab a copy of Scott's book, Thrive The Road Back to You by Ian Morgan Cron And as a thank you for listening to today’s show you can get this book for free by clicking the FREE BOOK tab on our website at Entreneato.com  and as always thank you to our friends at Audible for making it possible!  Lastly a quick reminder, we’d love for you to consider supporting the show through Patreon. For more info check out our Patreon Page and don’t forget to comment, rate and subscribe on iTunes to help the show move forward. 

In this episode, learn some great takeaways from innovation expert, keynote speaker, and futurist Scott Amyx of Amyx Ventures and Michael Yorba, the CEO and Chairman at WFN1 News Corporation. Scott talks about some success myths and shares the reasons why he wrote his book Strive. He shares the key tips on how he gets people to focus on succeeding and getting things done, especially when dealing with global issues. He also dives into the fourth industrial revolution, including ways on how innovation and technology impacts jobs, today’s generation, and the environment. Michael Yorba shares an interesting concept in market pattern recognition, which involves looking at the past to forecast the future. As interesting as cryptocurrency and blockchain may seem, he compares learning both to learning markets or astrology. Talking about technology, Michael explains how it can impact relationships and generations to come with regards to money management, job creation, and personal growth. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take The Lead community today:DrDianeHamilton.comDr. Diane Hamilton FacebookDr. Diane Hamilton TwitterDr. Diane Hamilton LinkedInDr. Diane Hamilton YouTubeDr. Diane Hamilton Instagram

Scott Amyx is an expert in innovation that integrates exponential technologies and out-of-the-box thinking and methodologies to create breakthrough new innovations for organizations. In his most recent Forbes column, he discussed the use of crowdsourcing and AI with research-based analogical innovation that can systematically and consistently generate profoundly new-to-the-world innovations that have 10x growth potential. His impactful keynote speeches are practical and applicable on the most pressing business challenges of today. Scott is the author of Strive: How Doing the Things Most Uncomfortable Leads to Success, which has been endorsed by Tony Robbins, Forbes, Singularity University, Tribeca Film Festival, and other global influencers. Listen in as Scott and Lou connect on Thrive LOUD *** Connect to Lou Diamond: www.loudiamond.net Subscribe to Thrive LOUD: www.thriveloud.com/podcast  

Exciting Update About Climate Change with Scott Amyx

Welcome to the Monday Climate Change interview with Scott Amyx. Today, I’m joined by Tal Ronen, President & Co-Founder of the YKCenter, a partnership of subject matter experts and senior executives that create and incubate innovative initiatives that accelerate the achievement of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

Welcome to the Monday Climate Change interview with Scott Amyx. Today, I’m joined by Dr. Ngonidzashe Chirinda, a climate change scientist at the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture in Colombia. He is a lead author for the 2019 Refinement to the 2006 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories. His current research is on developing and evaluating feasible climate change mitigation options in agriculture. During the past 15 years, he has worked in Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. He is originally from Zimbabwe.

Welcome to the Monday Climate Change interview with Scott Amyx. Today, I’m joined by Frostee Rucker, an American football defensive lineman entering his 13th season in the NFL who is currently in his first season with the Oakland Raiders. He is a well-respected veteran defensive end and most recently played five seasons for the Arizona Cardinals. He played college football at USC, and was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals in the third round of the 2006 NFL Draft. Rucker has also played for the Cleveland Browns and Arizona Cardinals.

Welcome to the Monday Climate Change interview with Scott Amyx. Today, I’m joined by Dr. Masaō Ashtine, Lecturer at the University of the West Indies who is leading the renewable energy research at the Mona Campus in Jamaica. He is also the co-founder of the Journal of Caribbean Environmental Sciences and Renewable Energy. His research is centerd around environmental sciences, with a specific focus on renewable energy and climate change. At the Department of Physics, his current work is within energy meteorology where he is investigating the impacts of climate change on renewable energy systems, incorporating machine learning techniques that can be used to better model these systems.

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing. There is a fringe 200-member activists group called BirthStrike that believe our planet has passed the irreversible tipping point. The members are choosing to not have children in response to the threat of climate change. The movement recently garnered media attention after Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stated that “it is basically a scientific consensus that the lives of our children are going to be very difficult.” She then asked the question if it still ok to have children. The movement is not about population control but a moral decision to have children and raise them on a planet with an uncertain future.   What are your thoughts about the movement? Are they taking it too far? Or is this what it takes to grab the attention of the masses for collective action?

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing. Last week the Tropical Cyclone Idai tore through Mozambique. An estimated 1.85 million people were affected by the cyclone. The city of Beira with its some 500,000 residents is said to be 90 percent destroyed. As many as 1,000 people are estimated to be dead. 3,000 people have been rescued but there are still 15,000 people that are unaccounted for. Some 394 square km or 152 square miles of Mozambique has been flooded.  

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration suggest that the Midwest flooding could become the worst ever recorded with more 200 million people at risk for flooding. Heavy rain this spring will make conditions worse in most states with moderate to major flooding expected in 25 states up to May, making the worst flood season in US history. According to the National Weather Service, the current flooding is a preview of what’s to come this spring, potentially causing worse flooding than the historical floods of 1993 and 2011. A Department of Defense report from January 2019 warns of risks from climate-related events and the Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community also warns that climate change poses extreme weather and floods that are threatening our infrastructure, health and water and food security.

Welcome to the Monday Climate Change interview with Scott Amyx. Today, I’m joined by Miri Ben-Ari and her son Dorel. Miri is a Grammy award-winning artist and producer and the Goodwill Ambassador of Music to the UN. Known as the original “The Hip Hop Violinist”, she has collaborated with Kanye West, Jay Z, Alicia Keys, Maroon 5, Patti Labelle and many more. Among her accolades are a Grammy Award for the “Best Rap Song”, an “Apollo Legend” by the Apollo theater in New York City, “International Jewish Woman to Watch”, the “Martin Luther King Award” from Israeli President, Shimon Peres, “Remarkable Woman” by First Lady, Michelle Obama, “Girl Up Advocate Award” from the United Nations Foundation, and the “Ellis Island Medal of Honor” by Neco. Stay tuned next time. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing. Today is World Water Day that advocates for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. UN Sustainable Development Goal number 6 states clean water for all by 2030. Clean water is a human right that’s essential for health, safety, sustainable development and society. The UN recognizes that billions of people around the world do not have clean, safe water and tries to educate the public about how to solve the water crisis by addressing the reasons why so many people are left behind.  Find out how you can get involved by visiting UN Water. Stay tuned next time. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing. The IPCC report urgently recommends reducing emission of greenhouse gases by transitioning away from fossil fuels toward clean, sustainable energy. For carbon dioxide removal in the atmosphere, the IPCC suggests reforestation and ecosystem restoration. The process of tree photosynthesis absorbs CO2, stores the carbon and emits clean oxygen. A mature tree can absorb as much as 48 lbs of carbon a year and generates enough oxygen for four people to breathe fresh air.    But not everyone believes that planting more trees is the right solution. Stay tuned next time. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing. The Great Barrier Reef is located off the coast of Queensland in Australia. It’s World Heritage site that spans an area of 344,400 sq km. When floods such as the one that hit in February that brought equivalent of a year’s rainfall in 10 days, the sediment-laden waters make its way from Queensland rivers to parts of the Great Barrier Reef. The dark floodwaters block out light and smother the coral. And without wind and wave to break up the run-off plumes, the dirty water sits there covering the marine ecology. The reef is already under great stress from coral bleaching from warmer sea temperatures. Floods like these will only exacerbate the problem according the Australian Institute of Marine Science. Stay tuned next time. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing. As much as 80 percent of the world’s marine debris comes from land-based sources such as plastic manufacturers, processors, landfills, sewage overflows and litter. The storm water runoff, wastewater and industrial waste eventually bring land-based debris into the oceans. 60 to 80 percent of all marine debris is plastic. So what can you do? Stay tuned next time. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

Welcome to the Monday Climate Change interview with Scott Amyx. Today, I’m joined by Ingmar Rentzhog, the CEO and founder of We Don’t Have Time that aims to create a social media platform for the future, focused on the biggest challenge of our times — the climate. Through the We Don’t Have Time platform, millions of members unite to put pressure on leaders, politicians and corporations to fight climate change. He is a member of The European Climate Policy Task Force within The Climate Reality Project founded by Al Gore. He is also on the Board of Svenska Bostadsfonden, one of Sweden’s largest real estate funds and FundedByMe, a crowdfunding platform. Stay tuned next time. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing. The recent atmospheric rivers or long, narrow regions in the atmosphere that carry concentrated water vapor dumped massive amounts of snow in the Sierra Mountains. Mammouth Mountain in the Sierras received more than 37 feet of snow since winter began. Start of 2019, California’s snowpack was at 67 percent. After the atmospheric rivers, the snowpack has risen to over 136 percent. This is good news for the drought-ridden state of California. In recent years, California has even tapped out its groundwater basins. The snowpack will provide California with much needed fresh water. But it isn’t all good news. Stay tuned next time. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing. In the next 60 years, most of the East Coast cities will start feel like the South. And the South will start to feel like Mexico. According to a study in Nature Communications, major cities’ climate will shift dramatically by 2080. Stay tuned next time. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing. According to a report from AirVisual that measures 3,000 cities for air pollution, Asian and Middle Eastern countries dominated the top 10 list of most air polluted countries. These cities exceeded the World Health Organization’s annual exposure limit for fine micropollutants. The 100 most polluted cities are in India, Pakistan, China, Afghanistan, Bahrain, Mongolia, Kuwait, Bosnia, UAE and Nepal. These are also the regions that will birth megacities in the next few decades further exacerbating the problem. Stay tuned next time. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

Welcome to the Monday Climate Change interview with Scott Amyx. Today, I’m joined by Monica Aksamit who is an Olympic Fencing Champion. She won the team bronze in the 2016 Rio Olympic games in fencing and she is training for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Stay tuned next time. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing. For over a quarter of a century, China has been processing the world’s plastic waste. 106 million metric tons or about 45 percent of the world’s plastic have been sent to China since 1992. But in 2017, due to rising concerns about air and water pollution to the environment and its people, China has officially banned all imports of plastic waste. So how is the world managing the situation? According to a Greenpeace study, plastic waste from the U.S. dropped by one third in the first half of 2018 and that other markets have been found in southeast Asia. Exports to Thailand increased by nearly 2,000 percent, Malaysia by 273 percent and Vietnam by 46 percent. This has resulted in a backlash from local residents. A plastic processing facility in Malaysia was forced to shut down due to locals complaining about pollution from processing plastic waste. The 280,000 metric tons not exported and unaccounted for are likely being burned or sent to landfill according to the authors. By 2030, an estimated 111 million metric tons of plastic waste will be displaced because of China’s ban. Many countries lack the infrastructure to properly manage the plastic waste according to a study published in Scientific Advances. For developed nations, it’s often more economical to export plastic waste to other countries rather than recycling them domestically. The U.S., Japan, Germany and Hong Kong are the top exporters of plastic waste. According to some environmentalists, these reports underscores that recycling doesn’t work. We want to believe that recycling is environmentally-friendly and that we’re making a difference yet after our recyclables are picked up, most of it ends up in landfills or incinerators adding to our climate change problem. Stay tuned next time to find out what is the cleanest form of sustainable, clean energy. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing. What’s the biggest complaint about owning an electric vehicle? The time that it takes to charge the batteries. There’s a novel way that might allow us to refill batteries at the pump. Researchers at Purdue University and University of Glasgow in Scotland are working on liquid battery technology to enable refillable batteries. So what are these refillable batteries? Instead of charging the lithium ion cells in your batteries for hours, refillable batteries refill the batteries with freshly-charged liquid. Also referred to as flow battery, traditional gas stations can be retrofitted to dispense liquid electrolyte. The time needed to refill the car is the same as filling it up with gas. Flow batteries release energy through chemical reactions between the ends of the battery and a substance known as electrolyte. In a lithium-ion battery, the electrolyte sits between the ends of the battery. When it’s depleted, it has to be recharged. In a flow battery, the electrolyte is pumped from a tank through the battery. When it’s depleted, it can simply be swapped out for a fresh batch. Researchers are working to increase the energy density of flow batteries by creating electrolyte with a high concentration of metal oxide. Researchers were able to create a liquid battery with three to five times the usual energy density by pumping the electrolyte through multiple battery cells at high speed. The old electrolyte can be recycled. So when will we see liquid batteries in the market? According to researchers, they are still several years away from fully commercializing the technology. Stay tuned next time to find out the implication of China refusing to accept plastic waste. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing. According to the latest study in the journal Nature Climate Change, the researchers indicated that the statistical confidence that human activities are responsible for global warming reached a five sigma level or the gold standard in the level of statistical certainty. Their study was based on over 40 years of satellite measurements of rising temperatures. Benjamin Santer, lead author of the study at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory shared that he hoped the findings would win over skeptics and spur action. “The narrative out there that scientists don’t know the cause of climate change is wrong. We do.” Scientists indicate the burning of fossil fuels is causing more severe and frequent floods, droughts, heat waves and rising sea levels. The call to action is louder than ever, in order to slow down climate change we need to cut greenhouse gases. We need to stop burning oil, gas and coal and transition to clean energy. Stay tuned next time to find out how refillable, flow batteries will allow us to recharge electric vehicles by filling them at the pump. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

Welcome to the Monday Climate Change interview with Scott Amyx. Today, I’m joined by Ed Roman, a Canadian Indie rockstar and an award-winning singer and songwriter. Ed is a 2014 Artists Music Guild Award Nominee, a 2014 and 2018 International Music and Entertainment Association Award Winner, a two-time 2015 IMEA Award nominee, a 2015 and 2016 Josie Show Awards winner, an Akademia Awards Winner, and a two-time Indie Music Channel Award winner. Ed also won a 2017 Radio Music Award for Best Americana Artist and he is a December 2018 Billboard Magazine Emerging Artist. His latest album “Red Omen” has been shown at film festivals around the world. Stay tuned next time. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing. Earlier this week high winds battered much of the East Coast, cutting power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses, thousands of flight delays and cancellations, and even ice tsunami that pushed walls of broken ice onto the shores of Lake Erie. Wind gusts of hurricane force — 74 mph (119 kph) — or higher were reported around the region, including West Virginia and New York. While on top of Mount Washington in New Hampshire, 144 mph (231 kph) wind was recorded. Residents in Ontario witnessed 25 to 30 feet tall ice mounds piled up on their properties. Piles of broken-up ice blew unto shore because of 60 miles an hour gusts that hammered the region around the Great Lakes. According to the Weather Channel, there are several reasons spring is the most active weather season. Spring is still a snowy time of the year. Tornado activity in the lower 48 states begins to increase in March before peaking in April, May and June. River flooding often occurs in spring in places such as the Ohio Valley, Mississippi Valley and other part of New England. Gusty winds often accompany strong spring storms. The windiest time is early spring with March being the windiest for the East Coast and the Plains. And finally, spring is known for its changing temperatures with up and time temperatures due to strong low-pressure systems moving through the central and eastern states that draw warm air ahead of them into the northern area of the country. Later in spring, the atmosphere becomes less prone to wild temperature swings. In the meantime, brace yourself out there. Stay tuned tomorrow as I discuss investment appetite for clean energy. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing. Today is International Polar Bear Day, an annual event that raises awareness about the impact of climate change and thinning sea ice on polar bear populations. As I shared on my February 14th flash briefing, things are not looking great for polar bears. The ongoing loss of their sea ice habitat is forcing polar bears to desperately look for food elsewhere, pushing them closer to human villages and cities. Some estimates put two-thirds of the global population of polar bears could be wiped out by 2050. The day encourages people to find ways to reduce their carbon output, such as by turning down their thermostat, driving less or installing energy efficient insulation in homes. But, I would challenge you to further. Every little thing helps but to really make a difference, it requires changing our source of energy. As long as we continue to burn fossil fuels to generate electricity, power businesses and cars, nothing is going to change. Make a commitment to buy clean energy and/or invest in clean energy. Listen to my “Fridays with Scott” episodes to learn how you can get involved in increasing clean energy. Remember, turning down the thermostat or walking more helps but to turn the tide in climate change, it requires an overhaul in our energy production. Stay tuned next time to find out why it’s been so windy lately. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing. Do you live in Florida or have a vacation home? In a few years you might find yourself literally under water. More than half the population of 100 Florida cities live within 4 feet of the local high tide line. Global warming has raised global sea level about 8 inches since 1880, and the rate of rise is accelerating. Across the country, nearly 5 million people live in homes at less than 4 feet above high tide. Between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United Nations and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, sea level is estimated to rise between three to seven feet by 2050. According to Harold Wanless, the Chair of the Geology Department at the University of Miami, the rate of sea level rise is currently doubling every seven years, and “that we have to take seriously the possibility that we could have 15 feet by then.” So what can be done? One mitigation is to protect marshlands. Florida has more wetlands than any other state. Florida’s marshlands are in danger from invasive grasses and from invasive rodents called nutria. Wetlands are highly valuable because they absorb flood water, help reduce the impact of coastal storms by absorbing wave energy, filter out pollution and provide habitat for wildlife. And for salt marshes to persist despite rising waters, they must grow at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of sea level rise. Florida Governor Rick Scott recognizes the real danger of rising sea level to the very existence of Florida. That’s why he and his environmental regulators are trying to protect lands within marsh migration corridors so wetlands have places for the marshes to migrate into the future. Stay tuned next time to find out what you can do to help on International Polar Bear Day. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

Welcome to the Monday Climate Change interview with Scott Amyx. Today, I’m joined by Seth Schultz, the founder of Urban Breakthroughs, a consultancy focused on climate change and cities. He is an advisor to organizations such as the Global Covenant of Mayors on Research & Innovation, the Coalition for Urban Transitions, the Global Commission on Adaptation and leading global engineering firms. This past year, he was the Co-Chair of the Scientific Steering Committee for CitiesIPCC and served as a lead author on the IPCC Special Report on 1.5 Degrees. Stay tuned next time. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing. Waiter, can I have some more water, please? He offers you more water but with one caveat. It’s full of microplastics. Microplastics are very small pieces of plastic debris resulting from the disposal and breakdown of plastic products and industrial waste. Groundwater make up about a quarter of the drinking water supply worldwide. It’s also what’s used to bottle water, make beer and wine. Because of their geology, groundwater aquifers are highly porous so they easily absorb contaminants from the surface above. Researchers from the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center and Loyola University Chicago collected 11 groundwater samples from an aquifer near St. Louis and six others in northwestern Illinois. Only one sample came back microplastic-free. The researchers speculate the tiny plastic fibers they found are coming from household septic tanks, perhaps carrying runoff from laundry loads. Clothes have previously been identified as a key source of microplastic pollution, with each wash potentially releasing hundreds of thousands of tiny plastic fibers. In this latest study, the highest concentration of plastics found in a sample was around 15 particles per liter. The researchers didn’t just find microplastics in the water. They also found medicine and household contaminants, supporting the idea that the particles originated in household septic systems. Another study from the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) warned that the impact of microplastics in soils, sediments and the freshwaters could have a long-term negative effect on our ecosystems throughout the world. These reports remind us that our local water supplies are highly vulnerable. And whether microplastics enter our drinking water or fish in the ocean, they eventually make their way back to us. Stay tuned next time to find out why protecting our marshlands could save lives and billions of dollars in coastal damage. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing. Another hard days work. You just want to relax with your favorite beer and watch a game. But what happens if your beer starts to lose its great taste? To make great beer, you need water, yeast, hops and barley. Almost 142 millions bushels of barley are produced for beer making but barley is fragile. They need just the right amount of water and cool temperatures. Storms can destroy crops overnight. Climate change is unbalancing the art of making great beer. There are more droughts, heat waves or overall warmer temperatures. In these conditions, barley yield goes down as much as 95 percent. The starch level goes up, making the sugar water that gets fermented into beer too gloppy. The proteins in the seeds increase. There’s not enough starch to make into beer. And there’s not enough enzyme to break down the starch into sugar to feed the yeast. According to research, this could lead to the price of beer to double and decrease in worldwide beer consumption by 16 percent. And the worse part is that beer just won’t taste the same. Even the beer companies are taking steps. They’re developing barley genes that can withstand less rain and 100 plus degree temperatures. Anheuser-Busch InBev director of global barley research comments, “The climate today drives disease pressure, drives environmental stresses and they will change in the future. As climate changes, we have to be ready for that so we have good barley production.” For wine lovers, the situation is the same. So if you love beer or wine, the solution is to move away from fossil fuels to clean, renewable energy in order to slow down the effects of climate change. Stay tuned next time to find out why your beer, wine, table salt and drinking water might be contaminated with microplastics. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing. You or someone in your family is bound to be afraid or creeped out by bugs. Don’t you sometime wish we didn’t have to deal with mosquitos, spiders and cockroaches? There are more insects than all the fish in the oceans and the livestock on land. They outnumber us by a factor of 17. Whether you’re a fan of insects or not, they play a critical role in our ecosystem. According to a report in the Biological Conservation, 40 percent of all insect species may be endangered over the next several decades. About 41 percent of all insect species have seen population declines in the past decade. The researchers indicate that we are witnessing the largest insect extinction event on Earth since the late Permian and Cretaceous periods. Studies suggest that the causes of insect declines are not tied to particular habitats but affect common traits shared among all insects. The researchers attribute this to habitat loss as a result of human development, deforestation and expansion of agriculture; pollution from pesticides, fertilizers and industrial wastes; parasites and pathogens; and climate change. Why are insects so important? Researchers warn that the loss of insects have a catastrophic impact on our planet as insects are the foundational base of many of the world’s ecosystems. When insects go extinct, other species soon follow. It begins to jeopardize the entire food supply. Stay tuned next time to find out why your favorite beer might be in jeopardy. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

Welcome to the Monday Climate Change Interview with Scott Amyx. Today I’m joined by Nick Troutman who is a World Champion whitewater kayaker and outdoor enthusiast. He is the World Freestyle Kayak Champion, North American Champion, Bronze Medalist at the World Championships, and 3x Canadian National Champion. He has descended numerous waterfalls including the Niagara Gorge. Nick has been featured in Nomads: National Geographic and Rush HD TV. Listen to the full episode on .   Stay tuned next Monday for another great guest interview. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing. Happy Valentine’s Day! Who doesn’t love polar bears, right? But what happens when dozens of hungry polar bears come to your town looking for food? About 50 Arctic polar bears have invaded the little town of Belushya Guba, located on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago stretching in the Arctic Ocean. The Russian officials in the region have declared a state of emergency. One local official commented, “I have been in Novaya Zemlya since 1983, but there have never been so many polar bears in this area.” Polar bears have entered homes and businesses. Some have chased local residents, taken over playgrounds and feasted on garbage. The local residents are scared to leave their homes or let their children go to school. So why are the polar bears invading this remote Arctic town when they should be hunting seals on sea ice? According to the World Wildlife Fund, it’s because of ongoing loss of their sea ice habitat resulting from climate change. According to a study in the journal Nature, the Arctic is warming more than twice as fast as the rest of the planet. Arctic sea ice is declining at a rate of nearly 13 percent per decade. The U.S. Geological Survey warned that two-thirds of the global population of polar bears could be wiped out by 2050 because of thinning sea ice. Polar bears are literally dying from starvation. Keep listening to this Climate Change series to find out how you can make a difference. Stay tuned next time to find out why we shouldn’t rejoice about bugs going extinct. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing. Recent poll from the George Mason Center on Climate Change Communication in conjunction with Yale indicated that 72 percent of respondents said that climate change is personally important, which marks an all-time high since the poll began in 2008. 69 percent of Americans are worried about climate change and 65 percent believe that climate change is affecting the weather in the U.S. The lead researcher commented, “American have been subjected to an aggressive climate change disinformation campaign for decades. The fact that most American can see the effects of climate change with their own eyes is one of the reasons why more and more Americans are seeing the disinformation campaign for what it is, an effort to deceive us.” This, of course, has been the proactive lobbying by oil & gas special interests to discredit climate change science. Politicians who are the beneficiaries of generous campaign contributions have become the mouthpieces for the fossil fuel industry, as witnessed, by the recent White House nomination of former oil lobbyist David Bernhardt to run the Department of Interior in order to open up public U.S. lands to oil and gas drilling and mining. In another poll by the AP and the University of Chicago, they also found high percentages of Americans accept the science of climate change. However, the polls also show that many lack understanding on how serious the issue is or what it will take to reverse the trend. Many economists and policymakers support carbon tax but material change to climate change will not happen until we can channel capital to large-scale clean, renewable energy. When asked if respondents would be willing to pay an extra dollar a month on their utility bill to combat climate change, 57 percent agreed. But when asked to pay $10 a month, the support dropped to 28 percent. The willingness to pay and the sense of urgency among the general public is still lacking according to researchers. So how can we convey the seriousness and urgency for the public to take action? Stay tuned next time to find out why polar bears are terrorizing a Russian island town. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing. Rising sea levels pose serious risk to institutional real estate investment. New York City, San Francisco and other major cities around the world represent a large share of total investment and carry a heavy weight in institutional real estate portfolios. Almost all are major coastal cities with their business districts are close to sea level. Coastal cities and their real estate markets face considerable risks from rising sea levels. Given significant portfolio allocations to these markets, institutional real estate portfolios have considerable exposure to climate change. According to a study by Four Twenty Seven, a research firm, looking at the total value of properties in the top 50 metropolitan areas in the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries Property Index or NPI, more than 24 percent of the NPI value is in metro areas whose central cities are among the 10 percent of cities most exposed to sea-level rise. This amounts to more $130 billions of real estate. 67 percent of the NPI’s value or $360 billions is in metro areas whose primary cities are among the 20 percent most exposed in the U.S. On a global scale, institutional investors such as pension funds, mutual funds and insurance companies currently invests a combined $2.53 trillion in real estate. According to industry tracker Preqin, 499 institutional investors have $1 billion-plus commitments in real estate. But what happens as climate change destroys trillions of dollars in real estate and coastal cities? Who will lose out? All of us. It’s our retirement savings and investments that are managed by pensions funds, insurance and investment companies. We have the most to lose. Stay tuned next time to find out the results from a recent poll on Americans’ perception of the seriousness of climate change. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing. According to a recent study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Antarctic glaciers have been melting at an accelerating pace, almost sixfold, over the past four decades due to warmer ocean water. The researchers predict even faster sea level rise in coming decades. The Antarctic lost 40 billion tons of melting ice from 1979 to 1989. That figure jumped to 252 billion tons lost per year beginning 2009. The bottom line is that Antarctica is losing a lot of ice and there are many vulnerable areas across the East and West Antarctic, with few signs of slowing as oceans grow warmer. The findings are the latest sign that the world could face catastrophic consequences if climate change continues. Scientists have already predicted that seas could rise nearly three feet globally by 2100 if the world does not decrease burning fossil fuels. Stay tuned next time to find out how climate change could affect your retirement funds. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing. According to a new study in the journal Science, the oceans are heating up 40 percent faster on average than a UN panel estimated five years ago. The research indicates that ocean temperatures have broken records for several straight years. One of the important aspect about the oceans is that it’s absorbing 93 percent of the heat trapped by the greenhouse gases we pump into the atmosphere. If the ocean wasn’t absorbing as much heat, the surface of the land would heat up much faster than it is now, endangering us from a rapid extinction. But that comes at the hefty price of killing the marine ecology, rising sea levels and creating more frequent, destructive hurricanes and floods. A fifth of all corals have already died in the past three years. If we do not take global action to reduce carbon emissions from fossil fuels, the researchers indicate that ocean warming alone would cause sea levels to rise by about a foot by 2100, and the ice caps would contribute more. That would cause profound damages from severe coastal flooding and storm surge. Stay tuned next time to find out how quickly Antarctica is losing ice. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change flash briefing. Did you or someone that you know experience last week’s harsh winter storm in the Midwest? The arctic cold outbreak last week will go down in history as the coldest, shattering all-time cold records. It created wind chills as cold as minus 60s below zero. But how you explain such a cold winter in a world that’s getting warmer? Normally the polar vortex or a deep mass of frigid air spins in the Arctic but sometimes the mass of cold air becomes weak and wobbles out of it polar home. When the vortex is disturbed, the cold air can spill out into regions populated by people in North America and Europe. There are many reasons that could affect polar winds such as weather patterns, storms or other disturbances but one major change is the dramatic warming events called sudden stratospheric warming which splits the polar apart and pushes the vortex to the south where people live. This weakening of the polar vortex and the subsequent spillover of frigid air has become more common over the last two decades. Scientists believe that Earth will experience more extreme weather as the effects of climate change play out. A study in the journal of Nature Communications last year indicated that the Arctic warming trend will lead to more frequent severe winter weather in the northeastern portion of the U.S. Stay tuned next time to find out about the latest research on rising ocean temperatures. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing. The 2017 Hurricane Harvey is tied with Hurricane Katrina as the costliest tropical cyclone on record, inflicting $125 billion in damage. One of those affected was Samuel Saldivar. He was trying to bring his elderly parents and his brother’s four grandchildren to safety from their flooded home when his van was tossed into the water by a strong current as they crossed a bridge. Samuel managed to escape through a window but his parents and the four grandchildren died in the submerged van.   As global temperatures increase, we will see more intense and frequent hurricanes. One idea to weaken hurricanes is to place offshore wind farms in the oceans to suck the energy out of hurricanes and to force them higher into the sky, resulting in less rainfall and less destruction when they make landfall, all the while generating clean energy. Today’s wind farms often switch turbines off during high winds, so current wind farms aren’t a good defense against hurricanes. But wind turbines scheduled to hit the market by 2020 may be strong enough to withstand hurricane winds. Stay tuned next time to find out why well-intended climate change policies are not slowing down global warming. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing. I’m a native Californian but I love the East Coast. Even during hot summer days, there’s almost always patches of clouds to block the burning sun. The next idea for reducing global warming involves blocking the sun so that Earth is less warm. It’s called geoengineering. It involves spraying particles into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight in order to reduce global temperatures. The hope is that it’s enough to slow down the more severe consequences of climate change. Harvard scientists plan to launch a high-altitude balloon into the stratosphere and release a small cloud of calcium carbonate. Then air flow would disperse the particles by 1 kilometer long and 100 meters in diameter. However geoengineering isn’t without concerns. Some studies suggest that spraying large amounts of particles into the atmosphere could cause unintended consequences to crops and weather patterns. A UC Berkeley research indicates that the net benefit of geoengineering might not be worth it. Covering the sun would mean less crop yield; less food production. Their recommendation for combating climate change is to address the source: burn less fossil fuels. It means we need to produce enough clean energy to wean off oil & gas and coal. Stay tuned next time to find out what technology might be able to slow down hurricanes. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing. One of my favorite activities is to walk in a forest. Something about being in nature among trees is so rejuvenating. The air is clean and all your worries simply disappear. So when it comes to climate change, don’t you wish having cleaner air was as simple as planting more trees? Unfortunately, we are spewing CO2 faster than our planet can absorb. So what technologies can combat climate change? One idea is called Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage. Essentially, it involves growing certain crops that can absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and then burning them at power stations to create energy, while capturing the CO2 when they are burned and then safely storing them underground. This process is considered carbon negative in theory. But there are issues. To make a dent in global emissions, we would need land that’s bigger than India to grow these crops. That’s land that would not be available for growing food or trees for absorbing CO2. Then there's the question of how much water is needed, and how much carbon is released by converting land for growing these crops. Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage along with tree planting sound great but hard to implement in scale. We need a better solution. Stay tuned next time to find out how scattering dust in the atmosphere might reduce global warming. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change flash briefing. My wife has always liked SUVs. It’s able to carry more people. She feels safer because it’s larger, heavier and and she’s seated up higher. It’s good for winter driving. It turns out that she’s not the only one enamored with SUVs. There is an unstoppable appetite for SUVs worldwide. The rugged, off-road, gas-guzzler that America invented and the world now wants to drive are increasing global carbon emissions. Thanks to rising income level and lower gas prices, drivers in China, Australia and other countries are ditching their smaller sedans for bigger cars. For the first time, SUVs and crossovers made up more than one in three cars sold globally last year, almost tripling their share from just a decade ago. But there’s a big downside to driving SUVs. Transportation accounts for an estimated 14 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, with cars and trucks making up the biggest share. The global SUV boom is a roadblock towards cleaner cars. Why? SUVs are also less likely to go electric soon, with only a handful of full electric SUVs in the market. There are technical hurdles to powering a larger car with batteries, and the perception among many automakers is that drivers of SUVs value power and performance, and they don’t want to be limited by the range of batteries. In the meantime auto makers are discontinuing smaller cars and sedans and ramping up their SUV lineup. Fortunately for us, I was able to convince my wife to get a hybrid electric vehicle and we’re loving it for all the right reasons. Stay tuned next time to find out about technologies that can combat climate change. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing. At the recent Climate Change Summit in Poland, the US, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait -- all major oil producing countries -- blocked the full endorsement of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. As oil producing nations, they are doubling down on oil & gas, even if it means at the expense of our environment, the lives of hundreds of millions of people and the very survival of our future generations. Stay tuned next time to find out how we as consumers are contributing to global emissions. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing. Oil & gas players cannot see beyond their short-term profits. And their economic self-interest forbids diversification away from oil and gas into renewable energy. For oil & gas special interest groups, they perceive renewable energy and climate change policy as a threat to their very existence. For OPEC member countries such as Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, and Venezuela, they live and die by oil and gas. Since 2008, commodity price of oil dropped precipitously into the $30s and did not recover until the 2011 Libyan Civil War. Then during the 2014 - 2017 oil glut, the OPEC Reference Basket plummeted to $22.48/bbl in January 2016. Venezuela never recovered. According to U.N. figures, some 2.3 million Venezuelans — almost 7 percent of the population — have left their homeland over the past two years amid economic devastation and political havoc. Other estimates place the number at closer to 4 million. Stay tuned next time to find out which countries blocked the adoption of the UN climate change report at the recent Climate Change Summit. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing. When you think of the largest oil producers, you naturally think of Russia, Saudi Arabia and other OPEC nations. Yet, as of 2018, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the U.S. became the biggest producer of crude oil in the world, thanks to the U.S. shale oil boom in the Permian Basin of West Texas. The U.S. is on target to reach nearly 12 million barrels per day according to EIA data. Fracking unlocked vast sums of oil and natural gas that had been trapped underground and drilling costs declined dramatically, making the U.S. resilient and competitive relative to OPEC nations. According to Reuters, estimates put the break-even point for fracking at around $50 per barrel, but other estimates put it as low as $30 per barrel, making it more profitable and commodity market resilient than traditional oil drilling from wells. With such strong economic interests, it’s becoming difficult to steer the ship away from fossil fuels to clean energy. Stay tuned next time to find out how economic self-interest is making diversification away from oil and gas to clean energy difficult. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing. Why was the recent Climate Change Summit held in Katowice (Kata-vi-ssa), Poland? Because the region is heavily dependent on coal. The region’s 5 million people in over 70 cities rely on the lifeblood of its coal industry. COP24’s president Michał Kurtyka, a state secretary in Poland’s Ministry of Energy, remarked that bringing the climate summit to Katowice was a strategic decision to exhibit a city and region in need of transition away from coal. In Poland coal still accounts for almost 80 percent of electricity generation. The current White House administration is in alliance with old industries such as coal, oil and gas, and steel and promoting these special interest groups as a way to bring back mining and manufacturing jobs. Stay tuned next time to find out how the U.S. became the world’s largest global producer of oil. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing. The problem of cutting emissions is that it leads to difficult economic choices. A growing global economy inevitably stokes more energy demand. The continuing growth in global emissions is happening even though renewable energy sources are growing. It’s just that they’re still far too small. According to Global Carbon Project research authors, “Solar and wind are doing quite well but in China and India, the solar and wind are just filling new demand. Solar and wind are nowhere near big enough yet to replace fossil fuels.” The issue is that of supply-side capacity. Stay tuned next time to find out why the world is so dependent on oil, gas and coal. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing. A UN-backed scientific panel found that nations have barely a decade to take unprecedented actions to cut emissions in half by 2030 to prevent the worst consequences of climate change. In the next 12 years, it’s estimated that global warming could increase by 1.5 degrees Celsius or 2.7 degrees in Fahrenheit. By year 2100, the U.N. estimates as much as 3 - 5 degree Celsius rise or 5.4 - 9.0 degrees Fahrenheit. The Fourth National Climate Assessment, co-written by hundreds of scientists, finds that climate change is already increasing damage to the U.S. That was followed by another report detailing the growing gap between commitments made at earlier UN conferences and what is needed to steer the planet off its calamitous course. Even China’s top planning agency admitted that three regions -- Liaoning in the northeast Rust Belt and the big coal-producing regions of Ningxia and Xinjiang in the northwest have failed to meet their targets to curb energy consumption growth and improve efficiency last year. Stay tuned next time to find out why cutting emissions is so hard. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing. One common factor across developed and developing countries has been the continue rise in the consumption of oil in the transportation sector. In EU, the amount of fuel used for flights and road transport has surged by 4 percent. In the U.S., fossil fuels used in cars rose by 1.4 percent. According to researchers, people are driving bigger petrol and diesel cars such as SUVs, and traveling more than before. UN Secretary General António Guterres at the COP24 climate conference commented, “Even as we witness devastating climate impacts causing havoc across the world, we are still not doing enough, nor moving fast enough, to prevent irreversible and catastrophic climate disruption.” Stay tuned next time to find out the dire warning from the UN climate change report. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing. The Fourth National Climate Assessment report suggests that by 2050, the U.S. could see as much as 2.3 additional degrees Fahrenheit of warming. A record-warm year like 2016 would become the norm. By that same year, in a worst case scenario, coral reefs in Hawaii and the U.S. Pacific territories could be bleaching every single year, leading to destruction of the marine ecology in those regions. Key crops such as corn, wheat and soybeans would see declining yields as temperatures rise. Depending on the pace of emissions, Phoenix, Arizona, which experiences about 80 days with over 100 degree temperature in a given year could see between 120 and 150 days of burning temperature every year by the end of the century. Stay tuned next time to find out who is most vulnerable to climate change effects. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing. Who will face the most suffering from climate change? Society’s most vulnerable, including lower-income and other marginalized communities according to researchers. In a worst-case climate-change scenario, the Fourth National Climate Assessment finds that labor-related losses by the year 2090 as a result of extreme heat — the kind that makes it difficult to work outdoors or seriously lowers productivity — could amount to an estimated $155 billion annually. Deaths from temperature extremes could take an economic toll of $141 billion per year, while coastal property damage could total $118 billion annually. Stay tuned next time to find out why there is an unmitigated growth of carbon emissions. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing. According to a study by the Global Carbon Project, a booming global market for cars helped drive CO2 emissions to an all-time high in 2018. The main factor in the near 3 percent rise has been the increased use of coal in China, driven by government efforts to boost a flagging economy. In 2017, global emissions grew 1.6 percent. The rise in 2018 is estimated to be 2.7 percent globally. The increase would bring fossil fuel and industrial emissions to a record high of 37.1 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year. The growth in emissions is coming from nearly 5 percent increased emissions in China and more than 6 percent in India along with growth in other nations. Emissions by the U.S. grew 3.4 percent in 2018, the biggest increase in 8 years, while EU countries declined by just under 1 percent. Stay tuned next time to find out which sector’s unabated appetite for oil is only rising. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing. According to the Fourth National Climate Assessment, the report draws a direct connection between the warming atmosphere and the resulting changes that affect our lives, communities, and livelihoods, concluding that the evidence of human-caused climate change is overwhelming and continues to strengthen, that the impacts of climate change are intensifying across the world, and that climate-related threats to our physical, social, and economic well-being are rising. The report finds that the continental U.S. already is 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than it was 100 years ago. The oceans are on average nine inches higher and we are experiencing far worse heat waves than 50 years ago. Stay tuned next time to find out what an additional 2.3 degrees Fahrenheit could mean for us. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing. According to a research published in the journal Nature, Greenland’s ice sheet is melting faster than in the last 350 years and driving sea levels up around the world. The authors of the study found a 50 percent increase in total ice sheet meltwater runoff vs. the start of the industrial era, and a 30 percent increase since the 20th century. In July 2012, it was so hot in the Arctic that nearly the entire surface of the Greenland ice sheet turned to slush. Scientists have concluded that the hot 2012 summer capped off 20 years of unprecedented increases in meltwater runoff from Greenland. And the melting is speeding up even faster than air temperatures warm. A complete melting of Greenland’s mile-thick ice sheets would dump seven meters or 23 feet of extra water into the world’s ocean. The contributing factors to sea level rise are thermal expansion of the oceans, melting of temperate glaciers, Greenland, and Antarctica. The sea level will not rise uniformly everywhere on Earth. However, coastal and island regions will experience widespread coastal flooding. Further effects are higher storm-surges and more dangerous tsunamis and hurricanes, displacement of populations, loss and degradation of land and damage to coastal cities. Stay tuned next time to learn about the findings from the Fourth National Climate Assessment. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing. California had the most destructive and deadliest wildfire season on record with a total of 8,527 fires burning an area of 1.9 million acres, the largest amount of burned acreage recorded in a fire season. The wildfires have caused more than $3.5 billion in damages. 98 civilians and 6 firefighters were killed. Increased fire susceptibility were attributed to increase in dead trees that gave more fuel to burn longer and stronger and compounding atmospheric conditions such as increased temperatures, less rain, and increased dryness that raised wildfire risk. Also since the 1990s, over 43 percent of new residences have been built in wildland-urban interface zones. The wildfires drastically increased air pollutants during the height of the July and August fires. Air quality indexes surpassed 200 in the unhealthy region -- the air so thick with smoke it ranked among the dirtiest in the world and health warnings prompted widespread school closings. Short-term exposure to wildfire can spur a lifetime of asthma, allergy, and chronic lung diseases. Stay tuned next time to find out how quickly sea levels are rising. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.