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An international development expert from University of Galway is to support the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment of climate change and its impact. Dr Una Murray, Director of the MA in International Development Practice in the University's College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies and a Principal Investigator with the University's Ryan Institute, will provide advice on the topics of climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was founded in 1988 and provides the evidence to the governments of the world through comprehensive Assessment Reports about knowledge on climate change, its causes, potential impacts on people and the planet and response options. International experts are invited to its Working Groups to synthesise all available evidence on climate change and identify how best to reduce emissions, how to make societies more resilient and how to ensure a just transition for those most affected by climate change. Minister for Environment, Climate, Communications and Transport, Eamon Ryan, T.D., welcomed Dr Murray's appointment and said, "Governments rely heavily on the gold standard evidence on climate change that is provided by the IPCC. This is critical to ensure our policies are evidence-based and to reduce risk of any maladaptive policies in response to climate change." Ireland has well recognised experts who can contribute to this evidence. We are also beginning to shake off our label as a climate laggard and are developing a reputation instead as a country that is showing that climate action can and is working. This is driven by the progress we are making nationally in reducing our own emissions, but also because of the calibre of the academics, scientists, researchers and policy experts we have working in the field." Professor Peter McHugh, Interim President of University of Galway, said: "Dr Murray's engagement with one of the leading climate change bodies at the UN is testament to both her insight and expertise on international development issues as well as our university's strategic commitment to sustainability and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The invitation for Dr Murray to advise on the issues of climate and its impact on people and society is a testament to the value we place on research-led excellence for the public good." Dr Murray said: "This is a great honour for me but also for University of Galway. One of my key aims is to provide IPCC contributions in relation to climate change and human migration. At the University of Galway, my research team is working on climate change, migration and social protection which I have presented at the UN Climate Summits over recent years. My team's research advocates for climate adaptive social protection as a key policy response to help tackle climate vulnerability and reduce inequalities." Dr Murray's expert advisory role is with the IPCC's Working Group II, which will be scoping the next IPCC Seventh Assessment Report (AR7), focusing on climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. The IPCC AR7 Scoping Meeting is being organised from December 9-13, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Dr. Daniel Scott is a Professor and Research Chair in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of Waterloo (Canada). He has worked extensively on sustainable tourism for 25 years, with a focus on the transition to a low carbon tourism economy and adaptation to the complex impacts of a changing climate. In 2021, he was ranked in the world top 300 climate change scientists by Reuters. In 2023, he was recognized as one of Canada's top scholars when he was inducted as a Fellow the Royal Society of Canada. He has advised a wide range of governments and tourism organizations around the world, including the United Nations World Tourism Organization, United Nations Environment Programme, World Bank, European Tourism Commission, World Travel and Tourism Council, International Olympic Committee, OECD, the Caribbean Tourism Organization. He has also been a contributor to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Third, Fourth, Fifth Assessments and their 1.5°C special report. His tourism research publications have been downloaded over a half million times and have been featured in many leading media outlets, including The Economist, New York Times, Guardian, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, BBC, Time, Scientific American, Sports Illustrated, National Geographic and many other others. Article: Ski resorts' era of plentiful snow may be over due to climate crisis, study finds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Other Side of the Story with Tom Harris – Physicist Richard P. Feynman, the 1965 Nobel Prize winner in physics for his groundbreaking work in quantum electrodynamics, said it best: “It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is; it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.” Even the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) understands this basic fact, which is why...

The Other Side of the Story with Tom Harris – Physicist Richard P. Feynman, the 1965 Nobel Prize winner in physics for his groundbreaking work in quantum electrodynamics, said it best: “It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is; it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.” Even the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) understands this basic fact, which is why...

Heatwaves are growing in frequency and intensity around the world due to climate change. Extreme heat is now gripping three continents - Europe, the US and Asia - and there is more to come. Temperatures are breaking records, driving wildfires and prompting serious health warnings and evacuations. Europe may see its hottest week ever. Islands off the South of Italy - Sicily and Sardinia - recorded temperatures of 48 degrees Celsius according to the European Space Agency and at least 2,000 people have been evacuated due to wildfires on the Spanish island of La Palma. In the US, a third of Americans are under extreme heat advisories. Japan has issued heatstroke warnings for millions. Meanwhile South Korea's president has vowed to “completely overhaul” the country's approach to extreme weather from climate change as at least 40 people die from flooding and landslides. So, what does extreme heat do to our bodies? How can countries and people adapt now - and in the future - to better deal with a hotter world? And are governments doing enough to deal with the effects of global warming and, if not, what more needs to be done? Shaun Ley is joined by: Dr Chandni Singh, senior researcher at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements and the lead author for Asia in the latest UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report Jeff Goodell, journalist and author of 'The Heat Will Kill You First' Dr Eleni Myrivili, Global Chief Heat Officer to UN Habitat and senior advisor for resilience and sustainability to the city authorities in Athens, the capital of Greece Also featuring: Dr Sharmistha Sarangi, an Internal Medicine Specialist in India Photo: A child uses a fan as she and her mother wait at the entrance to the Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona, Spain, July 18, 2023 Credit: REUTERS/Nacho Doce Produced by Pandita Lorenz and Rumella Desgupta

The sustainability community has a carbon fixation, yet non-CO2 emissions, such as methane and nitrous oxide, account for a quarter of annual global greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, water, biodiversity, and many other factors contribute to the environmental damage our economy causes. A more comprehensive view of our impacts is needed to consider solutions to the complex, systemic changes needed to avert global warming catastrophe. Meet Steve Davis, Head Climate Scientist at Watershed, a carbon tracking platform for large organizations, and Professor of Earth Systems Science at UC Irvine. Steve's wide-ranging research has examined the CO2, methane, and other emissions generated by wildfires, the impact of flooding and heat risks in major cities, how airlines can achieve net-zero emissions, and the various natural and technological approaches to removing carbon from the atmosphere.Steve was a corporate lawyer in Silicon Valley before becoming a leading climate research scientist. He contributed to the energy systems section of the recent UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change AR6 Synthesis Report. He also co-authored the climate mitigation chapter of the soon-to-be-released Fifth National Climate Assessment report from the US Global Change Research Program. To learn more about Steve's research, visit https://www.ess.uci.edu/~sjdavis/ and the information about the Watershed carbon tracking tool is available at https://watershed.com/

A recent UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report found global sea levels have been rising at an accelerated rate. For the small island nations of the Asia Pacific this is sobering news, but even for larger nations, lets take Indonesia, there are significant consequences. As an archipelagic state with more than 17,000 islands stretching over 80,000 kilometres of coastline, it should be alarmed by the implications. One issue is that your water territory, your exclusive economic zone (or EEZ) is measured as a distance from your coastline. And if your coastline changes, be it through rising sea levels or land reclamations, that has implications for you, your resources and your neighbours. Guest: Assistant Professor Tara Davenport (Deputy Director, Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law, National University of Singapore). Recorded on 28th November, 2022.

One detail in the latest assessment report of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: human aerosol pollution has partially mitigated the effects of greenhouse gas emissions and global warming. In our climate story of the week, Ryan Cooper, managing editor of The American Prospect and host of the Left Anchor podcast, explains what this means in the broader context of climate change. → It's Actually a Huge Problem that Aerosol Pollution Is Plummeting

In this episode of 1050 Bascom we were excited to welcome back Greg Nemet, Professor at the La Follette School of Public Affairs to talk about his work as a Lead Author for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as well as the recently passed reconciliation bill that included significant amount of climate spending in the U.S. (officially called the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022). We also asked Prof. Nemet for his insight into how the Russian-Ukraine War has impacted energy supplies in other countries throughout the world.

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change uses stark and dire language in its latest report. It says, “The cumulative scientific evidence is unequivocal: Climate change is a threat to human well-being and planetary health. Any further delay in concerted anticipatory global action on adaptation and mitigation will miss a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a livable and sustainable future for all.” It warns of “irreversible” trends that will render parts of Earth “uninhabitable.” There was brief media coverage of the IPCC report and then it disappeared. There are workable solutions to slow down and stabilize the warming thus avoiding some catastrophic impacts. But as the co-chair of the report says, “It's now or never.”

The evidence from the recently released report by the Working Group III of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a clear wake-up call for humanity. In this episode of India Speak: The CPR Podcast, Dr Navroz Dubash, Professor, CPR and Coordinating Lead Author for Chapter 13 ('National and sub-national policies and institutions') & Co-author of the Summary of Policymakers speaks to Dr Shonali Pachauri, Senior Research Scholar, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and Lead Author for Chapter 2 ('Emissions trends and drivers') to understand this report and what it means for the world. Dubash and Pachauri unpack the drafting and approval process of the IPCC Working Group III and delve into the chapters to help us understand what the report signifies. They shed light on the concept of equity and differentiated responsibility of countries, particularly those that are starting at a lower level of development. They also discuss the scope of the recommendations, their hopes from the report and the need to take urgent action to address the climate crisis.

The evidence from the recently released report by the Working Group III of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a clear wake-up call for humanity. In this episode of India Speak: The CPR Podcast, Dr Navroz Dubash, Professor, CPR and Coordinating Lead Author for Chapter 13 ('National and sub-national policies and institutions') & Co-author of the Summary of Policymakers speaks to Dr Shonali Pachauri, Senior Research Scholar, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and Lead Author for Chapter 2 ('Emissions trends and drivers') to understand this report and what it means for the world. Dubash and Pachauri unpack the drafting and approval process of the IPCC Working Group III and delve into the chapters to help us understand what the report signifies. They shed light on the concept of equity and differentiated responsibility of countries, particularly those that are starting at a lower level of development. They also discuss the scope of the recommendations, their hopes from the report and the need to take urgent action to address the climate crisis.

It might appear that many political and government leaders have come to regard AI as a kind of panacea, right at the moment when the world needs one most. The third and final installment of the sixth UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report was published Monday: UN Secretary General António Guterres called the report "a litany of broken promises" and "a file of shame, cataloging the empty pledges that put us firmly on track towards an unlivable world." Some leaders appear to be betting that somehow, AI will help us optimize our way out of this crisis.  But what if that bet turns out to be wrong? And what if the bets we're making within AI today, such as on technologies like deep learning, themselves turn out to be less fruitful than the hype might suggest?   To learn more about these issues, I spoke to Gary Marcus, a cognitive scientist, an entrepreneur and a writer. He's written five books, including the 2019 book http://rebooting.ai/ (Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust), which Forbes said was one of the seven must-read books in AI. And, he founded the firm Geometric Intelligence, a machine learning company that sold to Uber. Last month, Gary wrote https://nautil.us/deep-learning-is-hitting-a-wall-14467/?_sp=baa47b0d-796f-4e82-a2ea-a3d30cf85973.1649588017885 (a piece) in the publication Nautilus titled Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall: What would it take for artificial intelligence to make real progress? In it, he wrote that quote “because general artificial intelligence will have such vast responsibility resting on it, it must be like stainless steel, stronger and more reliable and, for that matter, easier to work with than any of its constituent parts. No single AI approach will ever be enough on its own; we must master the art of putting diverse approaches together, if we are to have any hope at all.” I spoke to Gary about how his criticism of where AI researchers are placing their bets connects with the larger wager elites seem to be making on the promise of Artificial Intelligence.

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its final instalment of its 6th assessment report, focusing on mitigation efforts and warned the world that carbon emissions must peak by 2025 and decrease to net-zero by 2050. Darshan Joshi, Analyst at ISIS Malaysia breaks down the report for us and also gives his thoughts on areas where Malaysia need to focus on in order to do our part in reducing carbon emissions. Image credit: Unsplash.com

An IU researcher investigates the “hot hand” phenomenon among basketball players, and an IU environmental anthropologist is studying the inner workings of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Overshadowed by the February 24th Russian invasion of the Ukraine, the release of latest UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report on Monday February 28th, came with renewed calls for urgent climate action. UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, says that the evidence contained in the “Climate Change impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability” Report is unlike anything he has ever seen, calling it an “atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of failed climate leadership.” To help understand what's contained in the second of three Reports in the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Review (AR6) series since 1988, as well as its potential impact on climate policy, politics, and action, I'm joined by Mitchell Beer, the founder and editor of The Energy Mix. The Energy Mix (https://www.theenergymix.com) is an essential climate and energy news site and digest that tracks everything and anything having to do with the climate emergency. Follow this link to the resouce list for this episode. https://canoefm.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/PH-Resource-List-for-Adaptation-and-Climate-Change-with-Mitchell-Beer-March-10-2022.pdf This podcast is hosted by ZenCast.fm

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released a report on how humans will be affected deeply by climate change. David Wrathall is an associate professor in the College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University. And he was a lead author for the chapter on poverty and sustainable development. Wrathall joins us to share how the changing climate will continue to alter migration patterns and impact economies around the world

Alan Robock is a climatologist at Rutgers University and a member of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. His research interests include geoengineering and the climate effects of nuclear winter.

When leading climate economist Richard Tol publicly criticized a Twitter thread of Alex Epstein's blaming anti-fossil fuel policies for the current energy crisis, Epstein invited Tal on Power Hour to discuss the issue as well as Tol's work in climate economics. The result is an illuminating and wide-ranging discussion of many topics, including: - What climate economics is - Criticisms of climate economics by Noah Smith and others for not portraying man-made climate change as sufficiently catastrophic - The philosophical assumptions underlying climate catastrophism - How both Tol's and Epstein's work is based on a pro-human standard of evaluation - Why Richard Tol withdrew from a major role in the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - How politics shapes every facet of the IPCC - The role of government restrictions on fossil fuel production and transportation in the energy crisis - The role of standard boom/bust cycles in the energy crisis - The role of unexpected demand in the energy crisis

Climate change is a global health emergency. What can we learn from how ‘green' has gone up the agenda? And how might we apply useful lessons to getting further improvements in another complex and difficult challenge – improving the health of the UK population and reducing inequalities?    The increasing frequency and intensity of heatwaves, floods, droughts and storms is already devastating lives and livelihoods around the world. While other countries are far more vulnerable to the health risks of climate change, the UK is not immune.    The UK government and the health and social care system must actively contribute to climate change solutions as part of our global responsibility. In the weeks ahead the UK (along with Italy as a partner) will host COP26, and countries will be showing what action they are taking towards the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming. Making progress on climate change will be very challenging. Like improving health, it is a complex problem needing long-term policy commitment and action. What can we learn from efforts and progress so far? And can going greener actually improve the health of people in the UK? In the latest episode of our podcast, our Chief Executive Dr Jennifer Dixon discusses these issues with two expert guests: Dr Fiona Godlee is Editor in Chief of the British Medical Journal, a post she's held since 2005. Fiona is on the board and executive committee of the Climate and Health Council and the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change.  Professor Andy Haines is Professor of Environmental Change and Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Andy is a member of several major international and national committees, including the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Useful links: The Health Foundation (2021) What do the public think about the NHS and climate change? UN Environment Programme (2021) The production gap 2021 Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal Society (2021) Climate change and health HM Government (2021) Net Zero Strategy: Build Back Greener  HM Government (2020) The Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution Council for Science and Technology (2020): Achieving net zero carbon emissions through a whole systems approach

People around the world have been experiencing unprecedented extreme weather events – raging wildfires, killer heatwaves and catastrophic floods. In August, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a new Assessment Report, which UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called “code red for humanity,” adding that alarm bells are deafening and the evidence is irrefutable.  Against this backdrop, delegates from across the globe are set to convene for the international climate summit known as COP26, where they're expected to hammer out commitments to reduce carbon emissions in hopes of avoiding the worst impacts of climate disruption. Six years on from the Paris agreement, is there finally enough urgency to turn ambition and promises into action?  For transcripts and other information, visit: https://www.climateone.org/watch-and-listen/podcasts  Guests: Kate Larsen, Director, International Energy & Climate, Rhodium Group Albert Cheung, Head of Global Analysis, Bloomberg NEF Mitzi Jonelle Tan, Climate Justice Activist, Youth Advocates for Climate Action Philippines Carlon Zackhras, Marshall Islands youth climate activist Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People around the world have been experiencing unprecedented extreme weather events – raging wildfires, killer heatwaves and catastrophic floods. In August, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a new Assessment Report, which UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called “code red for humanity,” adding that alarm bells are deafening and the evidence is irrefutable.  Against this backdrop, delegates from across the globe are set to convene for the international climate summit known as COP26, where they're expected to hammer out commitments to reduce carbon emissions in hopes of avoiding the worst impacts of climate disruption. Six years on from the Paris agreement, is there finally enough urgency to turn ambition and promises into action?  For transcripts and other information, visit: https://www.climateone.org/watch-and-listen/podcasts  Guests: Kate Larsen, Director, International Energy & Climate, Rhodium Group Albert Cheung, Head of Global Analysis, Bloomberg NEF Mitzi Jonelle Tan, Climate Justice Activist, Youth Advocates for Climate Action Philippines Carlon Zackhras, Marshall Islands youth climate activist Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of Policy Forum Pod, climate experts Mark Howden and Frank Jotzo join us to discuss Australia's climate policy, energy transitions, and the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow.In just over a week's time, world leaders and climate negotiators will gather in Glasgow, Scotland for the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference - or COP26. It's been billed as a critical moment in global efforts to tackle climate change, with this year's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change saying urgent action is required if global temperature rises are to be kept at 1.5 degrees Celsius. But as we approach the summit, there have been worrying signs, with domestic politics and the COVID-19 pandemic acting as obstacles for a number of countries. On this episode of Policy Forum Pod, Professor Mark Howden and Professor Frank Jotzo join Professor Sharon Bessell and Dr Arnagretta Hunter to discuss the science, the prospect for stronger national contributions, and whether COP26 can lead to major progress in the global fight against climate change.Frank Jotzo is Professor of Environmental Economics and Climate Change Economics at ANU Crawford School of Public Policy, where he directs the Centre for Climate and Energy Policy, and Head of Energy at ANU Institute for Climate, Energy and Disaster Solutions.Mark Howden is Director of the ANU Institute for Climate, Energy and Disaster Solutions. He was a major contributor to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports, for which he shares a Nobel Peace Prize.Sharon Bessell is Professor of Public Policy and Director of Gender Equity and Diversity at Crawford School of Public Policy at ANU.Arnagretta Hunter is the Human Futures Fellow for the ANU College of Health and Medicine, a cardiologist, physician, and a Senior Clinical Lecturer for the ANU Medical School.The podcast series, COP26: we got this, produced by ANU Centre for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions and King's College London, is available on Acast.Policy Forum Pod is available on Acast, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Subscribe on Android or wherever you get your podcasts. We'd love to hear your feedback for this podcast series! Send in your questions, comments, or suggestions for future episodes to podcast@policyforum.net. You can also Tweet us @APPSPolicyForum or join us on the Facebook group. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

People around the world have been experiencing unprecedented extreme weather events – raging wildfires, killer heatwaves and catastrophic floods. In August, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a new Assessment Report, which UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called “code red for humanity,” adding that alarm bells are deafening and the evidence is irrefutable.  Against this backdrop, delegates from across the globe are set to convene for the international climate summit known as COP26, where they're expected to hammer out commitments to reduce carbon emissions in hopes of avoiding the worst impacts of climate disruption. Six years on from the Paris agreement, is there finally enough urgency to turn ambition and promises into action?  For transcripts and other information, visit: https://www.climateone.org/watch-and-listen/podcasts  Guests: Kate Larsen, Director, International Energy & Climate, Rhodium Group Albert Cheung, Head of Global Analysis, Bloomberg NEF Mitzi Jonelle Tan, Climate Justice Activist, Youth Advocates for Climate Action Philippines Carlon Zackhras, Marshall Islands youth climate activist Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The most recent report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change includes discussion of a number of extreme and untested solutions to the climate crisis.  Among these are solar geoengineering – modifying clouds or spraying tiny reflective particles into the upper atmosphere in order to block some of the sun's light and thereby cool […]

The Late Winter Series 2021 of the Edict continues as Planet Earth continues to burn. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is calling it a "code red for humanity". We dig into that with Ketan Joshi. He's a communications consultant working with NGOs in Europe, and also a freelance writer covering climate and energy. We talk about how the policies and actions of the Australian government are lagging well behind public opinion, how quickly we could change our energy technology if we really tried, and what we should tackle over the next decade.Full podcast details and credits at:https://the9pmedict.com/edict/00142/Please support this podcast at:https://the9pmedict.com/tip/https://skank.com.au/subscribe/

This special edition of Beyond Your News Feed analyzes last week' report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.  Professor Casey Stevens, PC Political Science Department's environmental politics specialist, joins host William Hudson to discuss the report.  Casey offers his insights into the significance of the report, its implications for the on-going global political dynamics around the warming climate, the Biden administration climate agenda, and the prospects for the planet in light of the reports findings. 

Since the withdrawal of US and allied troops from Afghanistan, the Taliban's military offensive across the country has seen the group capture a number of provincial capitals over the past week, including Afghanistan's third largest city, Herat. Anastasia Kapetas speaks to counterinsurgency expert Dr David Kilcullen about the future of governance in Afghanistan. They also discuss the geopolitics of the region, including China and Pakistan's interests, and how the United States could respond as the Taliban continues to advance toward the capital. Earlier this week, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its Sixth Assessment Report. The report found that the world is likely to hit 1.5 degrees of warming by 2030 if we continue on our current trajectory. Dr Robert Glasser speaks to one of the report's contributing authors Professor Mark Howden about the report's findings, climate risks for Australia and the policy responses required to address this global challenge. Mentioned in this episode: IPCC Sixth Assessment Report: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/ Guests in this episode (in order of appearance): Anastasia Kapetas: https://www.aspi.org.au/bio/anastasia-kapetas Dr David Kilcullen: https://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/david-kilcullen Dr Robert Glasser: https://www.aspi.org.au/bio/robert-glasser Professor Mark Howden: https://iceds.anu.edu.au/people/academics/professor-mark-howden

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change just issued a report that triggered apocalyptic headlines about the dire condition of the planet, calling it "a code red for humanity." Steve Forbes on the doomsday headlines plaguing the news and on how climate challenges are actually quite solvable.Steve Forbes shares his What's Ahead Spotlights each Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

The world reacts to a grim report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Taliban forces advance across Afghanistan as the United States completes its withdrawal, and Ethiopia's civil conflict worsens.

A sobering report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns that human activity is unequivocally changing the climate in unprecedented and irreversible ways. But is this adequate to influence the goals of COP26 in November? And how well is Malaysia doing in tackling climate change? Alizan Mahadi, Senior Director of Research, Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) discusses. Image credit: Shutterstock.com

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The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has three working groups preparing reports in the leadup to COP26 in Glasgow in November. [Working Group I](https://www.ipcc.ch/working-group/wg1/) deals with the physical science basis of climate change, and has just released its contribution. Their key message, that the world has failed in its bid to keep to 1.5 degrees warming by 2050, allows for a chance - just a chance - that we can bring it back to 1.5 degrees warming if we take low emissions seriously. The UN Secretary-General António Guterres sums up the report bluntly as “code red for humanity” with the additional warning that “this report must sound a death knell for coal and fossil fuels, before they destroy our planet… Countries should also end all new fossil fuel exploration and production, and shift fossil fuel subsidies into renewable energy. By 2030, solar and wind capacity should quadruple and renewable energy investments should triple to maintain a net zero trajectory by mid-century.” Among others, we hear from Hoesung Lee, Chair of the IPCC, and Valérie Masson-Delmotte and Panmao Zhai, Co-Chairs of Working Group 1, and Inge Andersen, Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme. Picture: Changing by the artist Alisa Singer. "As we witness our planet transforming around us we watch, listen, measure … respond." Supplied by IPCC.

Heatwaves, flash floods, incessant rains, deadly forest fires. Extreme climate change events seem to be grabbing headlines daily across the world and a new UN report has made it clear that some of these climate changes are irreversible. Referred to as 'code red for humanity', the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a landmark report on 9 August which draws on more than 14,000 scientific studies. The report also comes just three months before the important climate summit in Glasgow known as COP26. The report has scientifically projected how the climate will be impacted if carbon and greenhouse emissions are not reduced but underlining it all is a message for the biggest polluters that they need to reassess their climate policy. And one polluter, India, cannot afford to ignore the findings of the IPCC report. The report has predicted an increase in the likelihood of disasters like the Chamoli glacial break in Uttarakhand or Cyclone Amphan in West Bengal. More incessant rains, dry spells, and heatwaves are also frequent tags in the reports when the subcontinent is discussed. What future does the IPCC report predict for the world and what does it mean for India? What action do we need to take? Host and Producer: Himmat Shaligram Guest: Anjal Prakash,  Research Director and Adjunct Associate Professor at Bharti Institute of Public Policy and the Indian School of Business. Editor: Shelly Walia Music: Big Bang Fuzz Listen to The Big Story podcast on: Apple: https://apple.co/2AYdLIl Saavn: http://bit.ly/2oix78C Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/2ntMV7S Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2IyLAUQ Deezer: http://bit.ly/2Vrf5Ng Castbox: http://bit.ly/2VqZ9ur

Global warming is unfolding more quickly than feared and humanity is almost entirely to blame, according to the most comprehensive climate change survey ever published. The latest report of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says every inhabited region on earth is likely to experience frequent extreme weather events involving heat, rain and drought as greenhouse gases continue to push temperatures up. The report finds even under a moderate emissions scenario, the global effects of climate change will worsen significantly over the coming years and decades. But the IPCC authors say deep, rapid emissions cuts could spare the world from the most severe warming and associated harms. Kathryn speaks with one of the authors, Michael Grose - a climate projection scientist with the Australian government agency CSIRO - the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.

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Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Original Air Date: October 2, 2019) — This week on the program, we air a forum on climate change's effect on minority communities in the state, in the nation and across the world. Almost one year ago, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a landmark report that called […]

Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Original Air Date: October 2, 2019) — This week on the program, we air a forum on climate change's effect on minority communities in the state, in the nation and across the world. Almost one year ago, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a landmark report that called […]

Young people are stepping into leadership roles in the climate restoration movement. Earth911 talks with Ashley Meeky, the first youth ambassador on the board of the Foundation for Climate Restoration, a non-profit working to encourage global support for the development and deployment of carbon capture and sequestration technology. A student at Vanderbilt University, Ashley got involved with the organization in 2019 and participated in creating its 12-week leadership program that trains youth to speak and raise awareness about climate change and the 50 trillion tons of CO2 humanity has already put in the atmosphere. It's this existing excess that carbon capture technology can remove as we reduce CO2 emissions to zero over the next several decades.The foundation argues that we can return the Earth's climate to what our grandparents knew later this century, but without carbon capture technology it may take centuries to remove. The technology produces CO2 that can be used to make concrete, fuels and industrial materials including plastic and carbon fiber.Ashley shares her experiences with the Foundation for Climate Restoration and how she is shaping her goals for adulthood based on the realities of global warming. A young entrepreneur who runs a hair care business and her own Instagram accounts, Ashley believes that business must play a leading role in the end of the fossil fuel era and the prolonged cleanup the planet needs. And she explains her own daily steps to reduce her carbon footprint. The foundation and Ashley will be involved in the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change COP26 meeting in Glasgow, Scotland, this November with hopes of getting global support for carbon capture technology, which is already operational at ClimeWorks and Blue Planet, among other companies. She argues that the necessary efforts to reforest large parts of the planet must be augmented with an aggressive carbon capture program to reverse, not just stop climate change. Learn more about the Foundation for Climate Restoration at https://foundationforclimaterestoration.org/.

The COP26 conference in Glasgow in November is going to be a very important moment in tackling climate change. We are currently not on track to meet the goal of limiting global temperature rise to between 1.5 and 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels. According to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, we need to halve total emissions by the end of 2030 if we’re to be on track to hit the 1.5 degree target and avoid the worst effects of a changing climate. To close the gap between pledges and action, countries need to sign up to policies and strategies that start to reduce emissions now. This is the challenge for the summit in Glasgow. Tom Heap is joined in the studio by Nigel Topping, the High Level Climate Action Champion for COP26, to discuss the ambition of the summit and the momentum that is building not just among governments but cities, investors and businesses to deliver net zero by mid-century. They hear from three experts who will give us real world practical solutions to achieve far-reaching carbon cuts by 2030: Dr Rhian-Mari Thomas, Chief Exec of the Green Finance Institute; Dr Stephen Cornelius, Chief advisor on Climate Change at WWF UK; and Dr Angela Wilkinson, CEO of the World Energy Council. Can we really halve emissions by 2030? Producer: Sophie Anton

On this episode of Power Hour Alex Epstein interviews energy/environment researcher Rupert Darwall, author of The Age of Global Warming and Green Tyranny, on why the corporate “net-zero” movement is unscientific and suicidal. Here’s some of what they cover: - Where the net-zero-by-2050 and its accompanying 1.5 degrees C target came from. Hint: It’s not a scientific origin. - How even small steps toward “net-zero” are harming citizens and industry in the UK. - The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC’s) religious focus on minimizing human impact on the planet instead of maximizing human flourishing on the planet. - How the IPCC evades the amazing improvement in human life over the past two centuries and fossil fuels’ fundamental role in it. - How the IPCC doesn’t seriously address the costs of net-zero policies. - Why certain elements of Wall Street find “net-zero“ so compelling.

Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Original Air Date: October 2, 2019) — This week on the program, we air a forum on climate change’s effect on minority communities in the state, the nation and across the world. Almost two years ago, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a landmark report that called for […]

Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Original Air Date: October 2, 2019) — This week on the program, we air a forum on climate change’s effect on minority communities in the state, the nation and across the world. Almost two years ago, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a landmark report that called for […]

Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Original Air Date: October 2, 2019) — This week on the program, we air a forum on climate change’s effect on minority communities in the state, in the nation and across the world. Almost one year ago, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a landmark report that called for the limiting […]

Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Original Air Date: October 2, 2019) — This week on the program, we air a forum on climate change’s effect on minority communities in the state, in the nation and across the world. Almost one year ago, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a landmark report that called for the limiting […]

Also, has the climate change movement been stalled by COVID-19?  We chat with Kirsten Zickfeld, Climate scientist and Associate Professor in SFU's Department of Geography also member of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

In the wake of Greta Thunberg's address to the United Nations, millions of youth gathering in Climate Strikes across the globe and the release of the latest UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, Shaughnessy talks about the politics of climate change, shifting public opinion and the Green New Deal with Alexander Kaufman, Senior Reporter at HuffPost covering climate change, environmental policy and politics.Follow Alexander on Twitter: @AlexCKaufmanFollow Shaughnessy on Twitter: @VoteShaughnessy

Today on Sojourner Truth: You likely know by now that within 11 years, without drastic action, our planet will have reached the point where the damage done by environmental abuse and devastation will be irreversible. In other words, we are facing a catastrophe. Those who are not joining the administration of Donald Trump in denying climate change have long put forward sustainability as a solution. But is it enough? Not so, says the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They point to the reality that present-day food production methods contribute to the rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which is a cause of global warming. Increasingly, environmentalists are looking at soil regeneration as a solution. But what is it? How can it be put into practice? What are the implications for mega farms and for small farmers? Is it too late to put soil regeneration into practice? Our guest is Pennsylvania-based subsistence farmer and environmentalist Dean Kendall. The reign of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under threat. The election that took place on Tuesday, Sept. 17 in Israel did not give Netanyahu the votes he needed to establish a government. This, despite him tying himself to Trump and threatening to annex Palestinian lands in the West Bank, which pretty much would destroy all hope for a two-state solution to the ongoing Israeli Palestinian conflict. We may not know for several days or weeks which of the two candidates who are pretty much tied now in the number of votes they received will become the Israeli Prime Minister. Netanyahu is the longest-running prime minister in the history of present-day Israel. Our guest is Khury Peterson-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. The LAPD is yet again embroiled in a police shooting controversy that killed Albert Ramon Dorsey, who was killed in a LA 24 Fitness location in Hollywood, where he was taking a shower. For our ongoing Campaigners for Black Lives Series, we speak with Sonya Smith, the sister of Albert Ramon Dorsey. Also, our Weekly Earth Minute.

Today on Sojourner Truth: You likely know by now that within 11 years, without drastic action, our planet will have reached the point where the damage done by environmental abuse and devastation will be irreversible. In other words, we are facing a catastrophe. Those who are not joining the administration of Donald Trump in denying climate change have long put forward sustainability as a solution. But is it enough? Not so, says the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They point to the reality that present-day food production methods contribute to the rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which is a cause of global warming. Increasingly, environmentalists are looking at soil regeneration as a solution. But what is it? How can it be put into practice? What are the implications for mega farms and for small farmers? Is it too late to put soil regeneration into practice? Our guest is Pennsylvania-based subsistence farmer and environmentalist Dean Kendall. The reign of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under threat. The election that took place on Tuesday, Sept. 17 in Israel did not give Netanyahu the votes he needed to establish a government. This, despite him tying himself to Trump and threatening to annex Palestinian lands in the West Bank, which pretty much would destroy all hope for a two-state solution to the ongoing Israeli Palestinian conflict. We may not know for several days or weeks which of the two candidates who are pretty much tied now in the number of votes they received will become the Israeli Prime Minister. Netanyahu is the longest-running prime minister in the history of present-day Israel. Our guest is Khury Peterson-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. The LAPD is yet again embroiled in a police shooting controversy that killed Albert Ramon Dorsey, who was killed in a LA 24 Fitness location in Hollywood, where he was taking a shower. For our ongoing Campaigners for Black Lives Series, we speak with Sonya Smith, the sister of Albert Ramon Dorsey. Also, our Weekly Earth Minute.

Today on Sojourner Truth: You likely know by now that within 11 years, without drastic action, our planet will have reached the point where the damage done by environmental abuse and devastation will be irreversible. In other words, we are facing a catastrophe. Those who are not joining the administration of Donald Trump in denying climate change have long put forward sustainability as a solution. But is it enough? Not so, says the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They point to the reality that present-day food production methods contribute to the rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which is a cause of global warming. Increasingly, environmentalists are looking at soil regeneration as a solution. But what is it? How can it be put into practice? What are the implications for mega farms and for small farmers? Is it too late to put soil regeneration into practice? Our guest is Pennsylvania-based subsistence farmer and environmentalist Dean Kendall. The reign of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under threat. The election that took place on Tuesday, Sept. 17 in Israel did not give Netanyahu the votes he needed to establish a government. This, despite him tying himself to Trump and threatening to annex Palestinian lands in the West Bank, which pretty much would destroy all hope for a two-state solution to the ongoing Israeli Palestinian conflict. We may not know for several days or weeks which of the two candidates who are pretty much tied now in the number of votes they received will become the Israeli Prime Minister. Netanyahu is the longest-running prime minister in the history of present-day Israel. Our guest is Khury Peterson-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. The LAPD is yet again embroiled in a police shooting controversy that killed Albert Ramon Dorsey, who was killed in a LA 24 Fitness location in Hollywood, where he was taking a shower. For our ongoing Campaigners for Black Lives Series, we speak with Sonya Smith, the sister of Albert Ramon Dorsey. Also, our Weekly Earth Minute.

Today on Sojourner Truth: You likely know by now that within 11 years, without drastic action, our planet will have reached the point where the damage done by environmental abuse and devastation will be irreversible. In other words, we are facing a catastrophe. Those who are not joining the administration of Donald Trump in denying climate change have long put forward sustainability as a solution. But is it enough? Not so, says the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They point to the reality that present-day food production methods contribute to the rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which is a cause of global warming. Increasingly, environmentalists are looking at soil regeneration as a solution. But what is it? How can it be put into practice? What are the implications for mega farms and for small farmers? Is it too late to put soil regeneration into practice? Our guest is Pennsylvania-based subsistence farmer and environmentalist Dean Kendall. The reign of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under threat. The election that took place on Tuesday, Sept. 17 in Israel did not give Netanyahu the votes he needed to establish a government. This, despite him tying himself to Trump and threatening to annex Palestinian lands in the West Bank, which pretty much would destroy all hope for a two-state solution to the ongoing Israeli Palestinian conflict. We may not know for several days or weeks which of the two candidates who are pretty much tied now in the number of votes they received will become the Israeli Prime Minister. Netanyahu is the longest-running prime minister in the history of present-day Israel. Our guest is Khury Petersen-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. The LAPD is yet again embroiled in a police shooting controversy that killed Albert Ramon Dorsey, who was killed in a LA 24 Fitness location in Hollywood, where he was taking a shower. For our ongoing Campaigners for Black Lives Series, we speak with Sonya Smith, the sister of Albert Ramon Dorsey. Also, our Weekly Earth Minute.

Today on Sojourner Truth: You likely know by now that within 11 years, without drastic action, our planet will have reached the point where the damage done by environmental abuse and devastation will be irreversible. In other words, we are facing a catastrophe. Those who are not joining the administration of Donald Trump in denying climate change have long put forward sustainability as a solution. But is it enough? Not so, says the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They point to the reality that present-day food production methods contribute to the rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which is a cause of global warming. Increasingly, environmentalists are looking at soil regeneration as a solution. But what is it? How can it be put into practice? What are the implications for mega farms and for small farmers? Is it too late to put soil regeneration into practice? Our guest is Pennsylvania-based subsistence farmer and environmentalist Dean Kendall. The reign of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under threat. The election that took place on Tuesday, Sept. 17 in Israel did not give Netanyahu the votes he needed to establish a government. This, despite him tying himself to Trump and threatening to annex Palestinian lands in the West Bank, which pretty much would destroy all hope for a two-state solution to the ongoing Israeli Palestinian conflict. We may not know for several days or weeks which of the two candidates who are pretty much tied now in the number of votes they received will become the Israeli Prime Minister. Netanyahu is the longest-running prime minister in the history of present-day Israel. Our guest is Khury Peterson-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. The LAPD is yet again embroiled in a police shooting controversy that killed Albert Ramon Dorsey, who was killed in a LA 24 Fitness location in Hollywood, where he was taking a shower. For our ongoing Campaigners for Black Lives Series, we speak with Sonya Smith, the sister of Albert Ramon Dorsey. Also, our Weekly Earth Minute.

Today on Sojourner Truth: You likely know by now that within 11 years, without drastic action, our planet will have reached the point where the damage done by environmental abuse and devastation will be irreversible. In other words, we are facing a catastrophe. Those who are not joining the administration of Donald Trump in denying climate change have long put forward sustainability as a solution. But is it enough? Not so, says the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They point to the reality that present-day food production methods contribute to the rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which is a cause of global warming. Increasingly, environmentalists are looking at soil regeneration as a solution. But what is it? How can it be put into practice? What are the implications for mega farms and for small farmers? Is it too late to put soil regeneration into practice? Our guest is Pennsylvania-based subsistence farmer and environmentalist Dean Kendall. The reign of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under threat. The election that took place on Tuesday, Sept. 17 in Israel did not give Netanyahu the votes he needed to establish a government. This, despite him tying himself to Trump and threatening to annex Palestinian lands in the West Bank, which pretty much would destroy all hope for a two-state solution to the ongoing Israeli Palestinian conflict. We may not know for several days or weeks which of the two candidates who are pretty much tied now in the number of votes they received will become the Israeli Prime Minister. Netanyahu is the longest-running prime minister in the history of present-day Israel. Our guest is Khury Peterson-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. The LAPD is yet again embroiled in a police shooting controversy that killed Albert Ramon Dorsey, who was killed in a LA 24 Fitness location in Hollywood, where he was taking a shower. For our ongoing Campaigners for Black Lives Series, we speak with Sonya Smith, the sister of Albert Ramon Dorsey. Also, our Weekly Earth Minute.

Today on Sojourner Truth: You likely know by now that within 11 years, without drastic action, our planet will have reached the point where the damage done by environmental abuse and devastation will be irreversible. In other words, we are facing a catastrophe. Those who are not joining the administration of Donald Trump in denying climate change have long put forward sustainability as a solution. But is it enough? Not so, says the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They point to the reality that present-day food production methods contribute to the rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which is a cause of global warming. Increasingly, environmentalists are looking at soil regeneration as a solution. But what is it? How can it be put into practice? What are the implications for mega farms and for small farmers? Is it too late to put soil regeneration into practice? Our guest is Pennsylvania-based subsistence farmer and environmentalist Dean Kendall. The reign of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under threat. The election that took place on Tuesday, Sept. 17 in Israel did not give Netanyahu the votes he needed to establish a government. This, despite him tying himself to Trump and threatening to annex Palestinian lands in the West Bank, which pretty much would destroy all hope for a two-state solution to the ongoing Israeli Palestinian conflict. We may not know for several days or weeks which of the two candidates who are pretty much tied now in the number of votes they received will become the Israeli Prime Minister. Netanyahu is the longest-running prime minister in the history of present-day Israel. Our guest is Khury Peterson-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. The LAPD is yet again embroiled in a police shooting controversy that killed Albert Ramon Dorsey, who was killed in a LA 24 Fitness location in Hollywood, where he was taking a shower. For our ongoing Campaigners for Black Lives Series, we speak with Sonya Smith, the sister of Albert Ramon Dorsey. Also, our Weekly Earth Minute.

Today on Sojourner Truth: You likely know by now that within 11 years, without drastic action, our planet will have reached the point where the damage done by environmental abuse and devastation will be irreversible. In other words, we are facing a catastrophe. Those who are not joining the administration of Donald Trump in denying climate change have long put forward sustainability as a solution. But is it enough? Not so, says the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They point to the reality that present-day food production methods contribute to the rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which is a cause of global warming. Increasingly, environmentalists are looking at soil regeneration as a solution. But what is it? How can it be put into practice? What are the implications for mega farms and for small farmers? Is it too late to put soil regeneration into practice? Our guest is Pennsylvania-based subsistence farmer and environmentalist Dean Kendall. The reign of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under threat. The election that took place on Tuesday, Sept. 17 in Israel did not give Netanyahu the votes he needed to establish a government. This, despite him tying himself to Trump and threatening to annex Palestinian lands in the West Bank, which pretty much would destroy all hope for a two-state solution to the ongoing Israeli Palestinian conflict. We may not know for several days or weeks which of the two candidates who are pretty much tied now in the number of votes they received will become the Israeli Prime Minister. Netanyahu is the longest-running prime minister in the history of present-day Israel. Our guest is Khury Peterson-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. The LAPD is yet again embroiled in a police shooting controversy that killed Albert Ramon Dorsey, who was killed in a LA 24 Fitness location in Hollywood, where he was taking a shower. For our ongoing Campaigners for Black Lives Series, we speak with Sonya Smith, the sister of Albert Ramon Dorsey. Also, our Weekly Earth Minute.

Today on Sojourner Truth: You likely know by now that within 11 years, without drastic action, our planet will have reached the point where the damage done by environmental abuse and devastation will be irreversible. In other words, we are facing a catastrophe. Those who are not joining the administration of Donald Trump in denying climate change have long put forward sustainability as a solution. But is it enough? Not so, says the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They point to the reality that present-day food production methods contribute to the rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which is a cause of global warming. Increasingly, environmentalists are looking at soil regeneration as a solution. But what is it? How can it be put into practice? What are the implications for mega farms and for small farmers? Is it too late to put soil regeneration into practice? Our guest is Pennsylvania-based subsistence farmer and environmentalist Dean Kendall. The reign of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under threat. The election that took place on Tuesday, Sept. 17 in Israel did not give Netanyahu the votes he needed to establish a government. This, despite him tying himself to Trump and threatening to annex Palestinian lands in the West Bank, which pretty much would destroy all hope for a two-state solution to the ongoing Israeli Palestinian conflict. We may not know for several days or weeks which of the two candidates who are pretty much tied now in the number of votes they received will become the Israeli Prime Minister. Netanyahu is the longest-running prime minister in the history of present-day Israel. Our guest is Khury Peterson-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. The LAPD is yet again embroiled in a police shooting controversy that killed Albert Ramon Dorsey, who was killed in a LA 24 Fitness location in Hollywood, where he was taking a shower. For our ongoing Campaigners for Black Lives Series, we speak with Sonya Smith, the sister of Albert Ramon Dorsey. Also, our Weekly Earth Minute.

Today on Sojourner Truth: You likely know by now that within 11 years, without drastic action, our planet will have reached the point where the damage done by environmental abuse and devastation will be irreversible. In other words, we are facing a catastrophe. Those who are not joining the administration of Donald Trump in denying climate change have long put forward sustainability as a solution. But is it enough? Not so, says the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They point to the reality that present-day food production methods contribute to the rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which is a cause of global warming. Increasingly, environmentalists are looking at soil regeneration as a solution. But what is it? How can it be put into practice? What are the implications for mega farms and for small farmers? Is it too late to put soil regeneration into practice? Our guest is Pennsylvania-based subsistence farmer and environmentalist Dean Kendall. The reign of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under threat. The election that took place on Tuesday, Sept. 17 in Israel did not give Netanyahu the votes he needed to establish a government. This, despite him tying himself to Trump and threatening to annex Palestinian lands in the West Bank, which pretty much would destroy all hope for a two-state solution to the ongoing Israeli Palestinian conflict. We may not know for several days or weeks which of the two candidates who are pretty much tied now in the number of votes they received will become the Israeli Prime Minister. Netanyahu is the longest-running prime minister in the history of present-day Israel. Our guest is Khury Peterson-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. The LAPD is yet again embroiled in a police shooting controversy that killed Albert Ramon Dorsey, who was killed in a LA 24 Fitness location in Hollywood, where he was taking a shower. For our ongoing Campaigners for Black Lives Series, we speak with Sonya Smith, the sister of Albert Ramon Dorsey. Also, our Weekly Earth Minute.

Today on Sojourner Truth: You likely know by now that within 11 years, without drastic action, our planet will have reached the point where the damage done by environmental abuse and devastation will be irreversible. In other words, we are facing a catastrophe. Those who are not joining the administration of Donald Trump in denying climate change have long put forward sustainability as a solution. But is it enough? Not so, says the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They point to the reality that present-day food production methods contribute to the rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which is a cause of global warming. Increasingly, environmentalists are looking at soil regeneration as a solution. But what is it? How can it be put into practice? What are the implications for mega farms and for small farmers? Is it too late to put soil regeneration into practice? Our guest is Pennsylvania-based subsistence farmer and environmentalist Dean Kendall. The reign of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under threat. The election that took place on Tuesday, Sept. 17 in Israel did not give Netanyahu the votes he needed to establish a government. This, despite him tying himself to Trump and threatening to annex Palestinian lands in the West Bank, which pretty much would destroy all hope for a two-state solution to the ongoing Israeli Palestinian conflict. We may not know for several days or weeks which of the two candidates who are pretty much tied now in the number of votes they received will become the Israeli Prime Minister. Netanyahu is the longest-running prime minister in the history of present-day Israel. Our guest is Khury Peterson-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. The LAPD is yet again embroiled in a police shooting controversy that killed Albert Ramon Dorsey, who was killed in a LA 24 Fitness location in Hollywood, where he was taking a shower. For our ongoing Campaigners for Black Lives Series, we speak with Sonya Smith, the sister of Albert Ramon Dorsey. Also, our Weekly Earth Minute.

Today on Sojourner Truth: You likely know by now that within 11 years, without drastic action, our planet will have reached the point where the damage done by environmental abuse and devastation will be irreversible. In other words, we are facing a catastrophe. Those who are not joining the administration of Donald Trump in denying climate change have long put forward sustainability as a solution. But is it enough? Not so, says the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They point to the reality that present-day food production methods contribute to the rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which is a cause of global warming. Increasingly, environmentalists are looking at soil regeneration as a solution. But what is it? How can it be put into practice? What are the implications for mega farms and for small farmers? Is it too late to put soil regeneration into practice? Our guest is Pennsylvania-based subsistence farmer and environmentalist Dean Kendall. The reign of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under threat. The election that took place on Tuesday, Sept. 17 in Israel did not give Netanyahu the votes he needed to establish a government. This, despite him tying himself to Trump and threatening to annex Palestinian lands in the West Bank, which pretty much would destroy all hope for a two-state solution to the ongoing Israeli Palestinian conflict. We may not know for several days or weeks which of the two candidates who are pretty much tied now in the number of votes they received will become the Israeli Prime Minister. Netanyahu is the longest-running prime minister in the history of present-day Israel. Our guest is Khury Peterson-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. The LAPD is yet again embroiled in a police shooting controversy that killed Albert Ramon Dorsey, who was killed in a LA 24 Fitness location in Hollywood, where he was taking a shower. For our ongoing Campaigners for Black Lives Series, we speak with Sonya Smith, the sister of Albert Ramon Dorsey. Also, our Weekly Earth Minute.

Today on Sojourner Truth: You likely know by now that within 11 years, without drastic action, our planet will have reached the point where the damage done by environmental abuse and devastation will be irreversible. In other words, we are facing a catastrophe. Those who are not joining the administration of Donald Trump in denying climate change have long put forward sustainability as a solution. But is it enough? Not so, says the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They point to the reality that present-day food production methods contribute to the rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which is a cause of global warming. Increasingly, environmentalists are looking at soil regeneration as a solution. But what is it? How can it be put into practice? What are the implications for mega farms and for small farmers? Is it too late to put soil regeneration into practice? Our guest is Pennsylvania-based subsistence farmer and environmentalist Dean Kendall. The reign of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under threat. The election that took place on Tuesday, Sept. 17 in Israel did not give Netanyahu the votes he needed to establish a government. This, despite him tying himself to Trump and threatening to annex Palestinian lands in the West Bank, which pretty much would destroy all hope for a two-state solution to the ongoing Israeli Palestinian conflict. We may not know for several days or weeks which of the two candidates who are pretty much tied now in the number of votes they received will become the Israeli Prime Minister. Netanyahu is the longest-running prime minister in the history of present-day Israel. Our guest is Khury Petersen-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. The LAPD is yet again embroiled in a police shooting controversy that killed Albert Ramon Dorsey, who was killed in a LA 24 Fitness location in Hollywood, where he was taking a shower. For our ongoing Campaigners for Black Lives Series, we speak with Sonya Smith, the sister of Albert Ramon Dorsey. Also, our Weekly Earth Minute.

The UN Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change, or IPCC, has compiled the first comprehensive global assessment of land use. It includes deforestation, food security and agricultural production. And confidence is rising among Western Victorian grain growers that they're on track to produce at least an average crop.

There are few people who know more about climate change than Columbia University’s Graciela Chichilnisky. Not only did she propose and design the carbon credits trading system under the Kyoto Protocol, she also was a lead author of the 2007 report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that won the Nobel Prize. Not too shabby. Prof. Chichilnisky, however, isn’t relying solely on the world’s governments to solve our climate crisis. The double-PhD is the CEO of Global Thermostat, a startup that’s raised $52 million so far to inexpensively suck CO2 out of the atmosphere.  If she succeeds, we could quickly, as the name Global Thermostat implies, set the temperature of the planet, thereby perhaps averting a climate doomsday scenario that many experts warn is already unfolding.  In this interview, we’ll hear how the technology works, where it stands now, and how Prof. Chichilnisky responds to concerns raised by critics about her plan.  Mentioned in this episode Carbon Negative video Washington Post profile on Global Thermostat Bill Gates touts Global Thermostat in MIT’s Technology Review

Listen NowFor this, my 168th interview, David Wallace Wells discusses his just-published book, "The Uninhabitable Earth, Life After Warming."  Listeners may recall I interviewed Mr. Wallace Wells on August 2, 2017 shortly after his published his July 2017 New York Magazine article by the same title, "The Uninhabitable Earth."  (At: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html.)   (In the recent past, or since last October, I've also interviewed Jessica Wolff, Kris Ebi and Jeremy Hess all on climate change.)   Currently, the earth has warmed to approximately 1 degree Celsius (1.8 F).  Our atmosphere presently contains over 400 parts per million of CO2, more than anytime over upwards of the past 15 million years.  According to the United Nations we are on course to pass 1.5C by 2040.  We learned last October the difference between 1.5C and 2.0C, per the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is cataclysmic.  (We are after all the Goldilocks planet.)  As one commenter of Wallace's Wells work has noted, "the impacts of climate change will be much graver than most people realize and he is right." Another stated, Wallace Wells " doesn't sugarcoat the horror."  As I note in the introduction to this interview, younger listeners (say under 40) are particularly encouraged to listen since you will inherit the full consequences of climate change.     During this 35-minute conversation Mr. Wallace Wells begins by describing what explains the planet's five great extinctions and what effect they had on species survival.  (Scientists believe we are presently experiencing our sixth great extinction.)  Based on his intensive study he offers the most likely scenario relative to the current and near-term emissions of global warming greenhouse gas emissions.  He discusses current science on global warming feedback loops, e.g., the albedo effect, James Hansen's "scientific reticence" critique, the value of exploiting hope versus fear in addressing global warming, the promise of carbon capture technology or negative emissions technology and creating hydrocarbon fuels from carbon capture and a general assessment of current US politics, including the recent "Green New Deal," in re: remedying climate change/global warming.       David Wallace-Wells is deputy editor at New York Magazine, where he also writes about science and his  recurring “Tomorrow” column on the future of science and technology, e.g., his 2015 cover story about the epidemic of honey-bee deaths (the first magazine story to put the blame on neonicitinoid pesticides, which is now accepted science).  He joined the magazine as literary editor in 2011, became features director in 2016, and has overseen the magazine's family of podcasts in addition to his writing and editing.   Before joining New York magazine, David was deputy editor at The Paris Review, where he edited and published writers such as Ann Beattie, Werner Herzog, Jonathan Franzen, Janet Malcolm, among others, and interviewed William Gibson as part of the magazine's “Writers at Work” series.  He previously served as "The New York Sun's" book editor.  Mr. Wallace Wells was graduated from Brown University.Listeners are again encouraged to read the IPCC's recent, "Global Warming of 1.5C," a 32-page summary of the report is at: https://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_spm_final.pdf.  This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thehealthcarepolicypodcast.com

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released in early October sounded another alarm that drastic action is needed to avoid the catastrophic impacts of global warming. But, is anyone listening? H2O Radio asked university students, who will be dealing with the impacts, how they view the future.

CLIMATE CHANGE EXPERT: Tom Harris, is Executive Director of the International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC). Since the Oct 8 UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report that we have only 12 years left to avoid climate catastrophe, the lid has been lifted off the Pandora’s Box of climate alarmism. Speaking about climate change in an October 12 PBS interview, the former vice-president proclaimed, “We have a global emergency.” Referring to the most recent UN climate report, Gore claimed it showed that current global warming “could actually extend to an existential threat to human civilization on this planet as we know it.” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who won the Democratic primary in New York's 14th congressional district on June 26, has gone even further calling for an all-out mobilization of industry “to get us to 100 percent renewable energy” to address the crisis, which she says poses a "direct existential threat" similar to that posed by Nazi Germany during World War II. Such extreme rhetoric may have disastrous consequences, in particular prompting governments to engage in ‘geoengineering,’ making changes are so massive that it affects the environment on a global scale over centuries. Besides the IPCC’s calls to actually start removing life-giving carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, the UN report has opened the doors to reconsidering solutions once considered too radical to even discuss - re-engineering Earth’s stratosphere to create a huge heat shield, by releasing compounds into the atmosphere from high flying aircraft. “The politics of this were impossible a few years ago. But not so much now,” said Rafe Pomerance, chairman of the environmental alliance Arctic 21. Considering how little we actually understand about how atmospheric dynamics, such projects are akin to providing the tools and access for a five year old to fix your television set. Except, the results of geoengineering may very well kill us all. Its time to put an end to the climate scare. BIO: Tom Harris is the Executive Director of the International Climate Science Coalition. Mr. Harris publishes often in newspapers across Canada and the US and appears regularly on radio and, TV. WEBSITE: climatescienceinternational.org TWITTER: @TomHarrisICSC

A Student Sustainability Rally to Support the National Movement started by Our Children’s Trust Students from St. Edwards University are organizing a Rally as part of a national movement started by Our Children’s Trust supporting the 21 plaintiffs which are suing the US government for allowing climate change to destroy the future generation’s right to life, liberty, and property by promoting a fossil fuel driven economy. The Rally will be on the south steps of the Texas Capitol building starting at 1 PM, October 28. As students studying environmental/world issues and with the heavy impact of the recent report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, we have come to a realization: ultimately, the impacts of climate change are going to rest on the shoulders of the younger generation to live with and to solve Our guests were: Ally Dean: Students For Sustainability Rally Coordinator and Graphic Design officer, Senior at St. Edward’s University, Environmental Science Major, Graphic Design Minor. Mary Knothe: Students for Sustainability President, Senior at St. Edward’s University, Environmental Science and Policy Major.

Time is running out to combat climate change. The United Nations has released an alarming new climate science report — but will it even matter? We discuss how the report is being received by leaders in the U.S. and abroad.Plus, we look at the politics of ditching coal power. The new UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report calls for a global coal phase out by 2050. How feasible is that?Finally, Judge Brett Kavanaugh has been confirmed. We wrap up the show by wading into what that could mean for the midterms.Recommended reading:Vox: Report: we have just 12 years to limit devastating global warmingWashington Examiner: Republican climate hawks hope dire UN report will sway skeptics HBR: The Scale of the Climate Catastrophe Will Depend on What Businesses Do Over the Next DecadeGTM: The Death of Global Coal GrowthGuardian: Australian government backs coal in defiance of IPCC climate warning GTM: Key Backer of Trump’s Coal and Nuclear Bailout Effort is Nominated to FERCGTM: Scrutinizing Judge Kavanaugh’s Past (Energy and Environmental Record) WaPo: Another sign that the Kavanaugh fight is energizing Republican votersSubscribe to the Political Climate podcast via ApplePodcasts, GooglePlay, TuneIn, Overcast, Stitcher and Spotify.Follow Political Climate on Twitter @Poli_Climate.

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change  (IPCC) 2018 predicts far more dire and rapidly escalating consequences of Climate Change than any IPCC analysis thus far, and calls for a historically unprecedented  transformation of the world economy to avert the worst of the damage. Dr. Kristie Ebi Dr. Natalie M. Mahowald Two of the IPCC's authors, Dr. Nathalie Mehowald of Cornell and Dr. Kristie Ebi of University of Washington, share their thoughts on the report, the problem, and possible solutions. Air Date: October 14, 2018 on KSCO radio station AM1080  

This week the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a new report that we are set to see significant changes caused by the earth warming in the next two decades. We discussed the report with professor Kristie L. Ebi co-author of the report. Guest: Kristie L. Ebi is professor of Public Health Sciences and Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at the University of Washington. She co-authored the chapter on the impacts of 1.5°C global warming on natural and human systems. Then we talk to Adam Hochschild, author of the new book Lessons From a Dark Time and Other Essays. Guest: Adam Hochschild is a journalist and author who has written on issues of human rights and social justice. He is the founder of Mother Jones Magazine. The post The Consequences of Global Warming on our Food Systems. Then Lesson from a Dark Time appeared first on KPFA.

How do you become a scientist? Ask anyone in the profession and you'll probably hear some version of the following: get a Bachelor's of Science degree, work in a lab, get into a PhD program, publish some papers, get a good post-doctoral position, publish some more papers and then apply for a tenure-track job at a large university. It's a long road—and you get to spend those 10 to 15 years as a poor graduate student or underpaid postdoc, while you watch your peers launch careers, start families, and contribute to their 401(k) plans.And then comes the academic job market. According to Brandeis University biochemist Dr. Gregory Petsko, who recently chaired a National Academy of Sciences committee on the postdoctoral experience in the US, less than 20 percent of aspiring postdocs today get highly coveted jobs in academia. That's less than one in five. Naturally, many more end up in industry, in government, and in many other sectors—but not the one they were trained for or probably hoping for. "We're fond of saying that we should prepare people for alternative careers," explains Pesko, "without realizing that we're the alternative career."Ethan Perlstein was one of these postdocs—before he decided he'd had enough. He had gotten his Ph.D. at Harvard under Stuart Schreiber, the legendary chemist, and then gone on to a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship in genomics at Princeton. He'd published in top journals, like the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Genetics. He'd put in 13 years. But that "came to a close at the end of 2012," says Perlstein on this week’s episode, "when I encountered what I have been calling the postdocalypse, which is this pretty bad job market for professionally trained Ph.Ds—life scientists, in particular." After two years of searching for an assistant professorship, going up against an army of highly qualified, job-hungry scientists, he gave up.We talked to Perlstein about the postdocalypse, what it means for science, and what he’s doing about it.This episode also features a story about the upcoming release of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's report on global warming impacts, and a discussion about the difficult question of when screening for disease conditions is (and isn't) a good idea.iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/inquiring-minds/id711675943RSS: feeds.feedburner.com/inquiring-mindsStitcher: stitcher.com/podcast/inquiring-minds

International CSR - We had the pleasure of interviewing Professor and Nobel Prize winner Mohan Munasinghe at the event Who Cares Wins April 2013. Mohan Munasinghe shared the 2007 Nobel Prize for Peace, as Vice Chair of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC-AR4). Currently, he is Chairman of the Munasinghe Inst. of Development (MIND), Colombo; Professor of Sustainable Development at SCI, University of Manchester, UK; Institute Professor at the Vale Sustainable Development Inst., Federal Univ. of Para, Brazil; and Distinguished Guest Professor at Peking University, China.He has taught as Visiting Professor at several leading universities worldwide, and won many international prizes and medals for his research and its applications. Prof. Munasinghe has authored 92 books and over three hundred technical papers.