Podcast appearances and mentions of Will Steffen

The late Will Steffen (pictured) was a kind and thoughtful man, an one of the world's climate champions - listen to him here as champions science and encourages us to also embrace the climate realities of the science he live. Also you can listen to Climate Council CEO, Amanda McKenzie's, speak at Professor Will Steffen's memorial: "Remembering Will"; And don't forget you can attend the "Swanpool Environmental Film Festival" on June 17; "Maximising Benefits of Recycled Water in the Climate Risk Era"; "Trucking industry calls for national zero emission strategy"; "Labor warns NSW facing a ‘momentous task' in transition to renewables"; "13 lessons from a climate change diplomat with months left to live"; "Are climate–security risks too hot to handle for the Albanese government?"; "Humanity's tipping point? How the Queen's death stole a climate warning's thunder"; "Get Up, Stand Up: What Actions Move the Needle?"; "Rights of Nature Timeline"; "‘A New Spike' in Global Temperatures in the Forecast"; "Climate Change Powered the Mediterranean's Unusual Heat Wave"; "Private Jet Travel Is Booming. And Shameful. And We're All Paying for It."; "Danish Wind Pioneer Keeps Battling Climate Change"; "Virginia middle schoolers learn how city design influences extreme heat in their community"; "15 million people at risk globally from glacial lake dam bursts, study finds"; "Six essentials for mainstream EV adoption"; "United Airlines to triple sustainable aviation fuel use in 2023"; "Go big or start small: Picking the right scale for green hydrogen"; "World's largest-of-its-kind power line to deliver clean power to 1.8m UK homes"; "Energy Minister Chris Bowen announces new Net Zero Authority to help transition from coal-fired generation"; "In autumn, sea temperatures fall. Not this year"; "The US is stealing Australia's ‘core'. Gym Chalmers needs the energy to stop it"; "Tackling transitions: offshore wind takes off"; "In autumn, sea temperatures fall. Not this year"; "Budget will grab $2.4 billion from LNG super profits"; "Melbourne council tinkering at the edges of transport fix". --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robert-mclean/message

CLIMATE ACTION SHOW March 20th 2023Produced by Vivien Langford H E L L  O N  E A R T HAccording to Australian Climate Scientist , the late Professor  Will Steffen, we are risking billions of deaths and hell on earth. Tipping points are tipping and this generation will determine the fate of life on earth in all its bio-diversity. Let's convince Super funds that there is nothing better to invest your money in than the continuity of life. Tell them how to vote at the next bank AGM.  Guests :Pablo Brait  - Market Forces- https://www.marketforces.org.au/were-your-retirement-savings-used-to-block-climate-action/Fahimah, Chris, Bubbly and Manjot -  Move Beyond Coal - https://www.movebeyondcoal.com/who_we_are(link is external)Naomi Klein - The Intercept on Cop 27https://theintercept.com/2022/10/04/cop27-egypt-climate-summit/(link is external)https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/18/greenwashing-police-...(link is external)Ineza Grace from Rwanda - The African COP -https://theelders.org/news/loss-and-damage-financing-will-mean-there-hop...(link is external) Birdsong from Botswana and Ballad sung by Robert Farmer: The coal owner and poor pitman's wife.News from  Environs Kimberley and The Beetaloo Basin WHITEHAVEN AGM /MOVE BEYOND COALORIGIN MOVES SLIGHTLY AWAY FROM GASThe Climate Action groups co operating with Move Beyond Coal are  the best of civil society. Some of those working for years to alert  us to the danger of new coal and gas projects  are 350 Pacific, Pacific Climate Warriors , lock the gate alliance, School strike4Climate, SAPNA South Asian  Climate Solidarity, Green Left, Doctors for the Environment, ARRCC, The sum of us and many more. They gathered outside The Mint in Sydney on Oct 26th for the Whitehaven Coal Company's AGM. Proxy shareholders inside proposed that Whitehaven use windfall profits  to manage down its mines and ensure the transition of the workforce. Later that day Market Forces sent us a message that MANY more shareholders this year supported the resoluion. Pablo Brait  explains  how this happened.Meanwhile Origin Energy is withdrawing from its gas exploration in the Kimberley WA according to Environs Kimberley and from the Beetaloo Basin in NT according to ABC.https://www.environskimberley.org.au/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-20/nt-origin-quitting-beetaloo-proje...(link is external) As Pablo says the trend away from coal at least is clear but it is all too slow. If  you are a member of a Superannuation Fund it will have shares in the big banks. It's a simple thing to ring your fund and ask them to support the Market Forces resolution at this year's AGM for NAB, Westpac or ANZ.CHECK it out here: https://www.marketforces.org.au/were-your-retirement-savings-used-to-block-climate-action/CBA shareholders have mostly voted against the resolution already so  lets pull out the stops: https://www.marketforces.org.au/tag/cba/ 

Dr Kate Wylie questions the Santos sponsorship of the Tour Down Under - "As Santos sponsors the Tour Down Under, it's time to ban fossil fuel advertising"; "Can induction stoves convince home cooks to give up gas?"; "2022 was a remarkable year for the climate. Here's what to expect in 2023"; "Despite Rain Storms, California Is Still in Drought"; "Thunberg says Davos elite 'fuelling destruction of planet'"; "The Deluge" is a climate nightmare — and it's based on reality"; "ANU pays tribute to Emeritus Professor Will Steffen"; "Tribute to Emeritus Professor Will Steffen"; "Will Steffen fought passionately for our planet. To honour him we must follow his lead". --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robert-mclean/message

In this fascinating interview, first aired in June 2020, renowned climate scientist Will Steffen discusses Earth System science, and his research on so-called “tipping cascades,” when one tipping point kicks off a series of others, posing a growing threat of abrupt and irreversible climate changes. Will draws parallels between -19 and climate change, in that it's important to understand science and not just what intervention needs to take place but to plan for the amount of time it takes for it to take effect. A great interview with a pioneering climate researcher who died on January 29th, 2023. Will Steffen had a long history in international global change research, serving from 1998 to 2004 as Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), based in Stockholm, Sweden, and before that as Executive Officer of IGBP's Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems project. He was the Inaugural Director of the ANU Climate Change Institute, from 2008-2012. Prior to that, he was Director of the ANU Fenner School of Environment and Society. From 2004 to 2011, Will served as science adviser to the Australian Government Department of Climate Change; from 2011 to 2013 was a Climate Commissioner on the Australian Government's Climate Commission; Chair of the Antarctic Science Advisory Committee, Co-Director of the Canberra Urban and Regional Futures (CURF) initiative and Member of the ACT Climate Change Council. Steffen's interests spanned a broad range within the fields of sustainability and Earth System science, with an emphasis on the science of climate change, approaches to climate change adaptation in land systems, incorporation of human processes in Earth System modelling and analysis; and the history and future of the relationship between humans and the rest of nature.    

Professor Will Steffen (pictured) was a man of rare talents mixed with an abundance of scientific skills, but beyond that was the epitome of what a gentleman is - kind, thoughtful, compassionate, fair and beyond anything else a decent and good bloke. The Australia National University emeritus professor died of pancreatic cancer late in January and brought his knowledge of the world's climate challenges to Australia in 1977 and quickly became a fixture of climate conversations throughout the country, influencing many people from the Federal Government down. Will was a member of the Climate Council and had played a leading role in the creation and maintenance of many other climate bodies - we have lost a true climate champion. "'One of Australia's most influential and respected climate scientists' Will Steffen dies aged 75"; "‘Driving force': Tributes flow for giant of Australian climate science"; "We've lost a giant: Vale Professor Will Steffen, climate science pioneer"; "ANU Emeritus Professor Will Steffen dies aged 76". --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robert-mclean/message

In this episode of Post-Growth Australia, we welcome back Dr Michelle Maloney, National Convenor of Australia Earth Law Alliance (AELA), to discuss the exciting new Greenprints initiative. Quoting from the AELA Website (https://www.earthlaws.org.au/our-programs/greenprints/), Greenprints “provides a practical, step-by-step approach to help people understand both the big picture and the small details, of how to transform our societies and thrive within our ecological limit”. Greenprints “offers a process to help us find and use the very best sustainability & regenerative approaches, so we can redesign societies to thrive within our local, regional & global ecological limits.” This episode was recorded online during severe gale force winds in Albany and severe rainfall in Brisbane, which unfortunately impacted on the resulting sound quality. Unfortunately folks, climate change even impacts our podcast listening experience! More information can be found on the Greenprints website here (https://www.greenprints.org.au/). An introductory video from Michelle on Greenprints can be watched on YouTube here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glM8lNINF8o). (A model of the greenprints steps reproduced here with courtesy from the Greenprints website) Greenprints is a practical tool for community groups, workplaces and local government. If you or your community would benefit from Greenprints, please contact AELA, details on their website here. (https://www.earthlaws.org.au/) The online seminar from Prof. Will Steffen, where I first heard about the Greenprints initiative, can be viewed on YouTube here: “Planetary Boundaries: 2022 Update with Professor Will Steffen - Greenprints Exchange Workshop Series (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1vSWPsjknI&t=1s).” Steffen also presented at the March 2022 Fenner conference which I helped to organise with Sustainable Population Australia (https://population.org.au/). A video of the presentation can also be viewed on YouTube: “Can we feed all the people and not destroy the Earth (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90h5DOFNtUE&t=1s)?” Dr Michelle Maloney was previously interviewed by PGAP all the way back in Season 1. One of our more popular episodes, “Reimagining an Earth Centered Economy with Michelle Maloney” can be heard here (https://pgap.fireside.fm/4). You may also be interested in the second season PGAP episode: “Saving the Martuwarra-Fitzroy river with Professor Anne Poelina (https://pgap.fireside.fm/martuwarra).” Anne Poelina is a Nyikina Warrwa Traditional Owner who chairs the Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council and is working alongside AELA and the Greenprints initiative. Did you enjoy this episode? You can support PGAP by sharing this and other episodes of PGAP with your friends, family and networks. Rate and review PGAP on Apple Podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/post-growth-australia-podcast/id1522194099). We are grateful for any constructive feedback or ideas for future guests and episodes, contact us here (https://pgap.fireside.fm/contact). More information regarding PGAP host Michael Bayliss can be found at my personal website here (https://michaelbayliss.org/). All opinions from PGAP guests, including their past or present legacies, are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of PGAP or Sustainable Population Australia, who support this podcast. Special Guest: Dr Michelle Maloney.

“Sustainability and the New Economics: Synthesising Ecological Economics and Modern Monetary Theory” is a new book fresh off the print and on the shelves. It is an impressive volume containing chapters from a host of Australian game-changers including Michael Kirby, Ian Dunlop, Will Steffen and last episode's guest Ian Lowe. The book details sobering realities regarding business as usual economics, while offering many realistic and applicable solutions based around ecological economics and modern monetary theory. PGAP spoke with lead editor Stephen Williams to find out more about this impressive book, and why economics is front and foremost of the world's problems and why things need to change. Stephen Williams has a background in newspaper journalism and law. He began his journalism career at The Canberra Times in 2000 and subsequently specialised in environmental matters. His overarching interest is in designing sustainable societies. He believes mainstream economics can only provide a path to collapse. He is the co-editor of Sustainability and the New Economics: Synthesising Ecological Economics and Modern Monetary Theory (Springer, 2022). Want to find out more about “Sustainability and the New Economics: Synthesising Ecological Economics and Modern Monetary Theory”, purchase your own copy or encourage your local library to stock up? Check out the link to the book here (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-78795-0) Want to find out more about some of the topics that Stephen brought up in the interview? Modern Money Lab (courses, info): https://modernmoneylab.org.au Herman Daly essay (with top-10 policies): https://www.greattransition.org/publication/economics-for-a-full-world Did you like the economic focus of this episode? You might also like season 2 finale episode with Economic Reform Australia (https://pgap.fireside.fm/era) or The Economics of Arrival with Katherine Trebeck (https://pgap.fireside.fm/arrival). Season 1 has the budget special with unconventional economist Leith van Onselen (https://pgap.fireside.fm/budgetspecial), or reimagining an earth centred economy with Michelle Maloney. (https://pgap.fireside.fm/4) SUPPORT PGAP! Rate and review us on Apple Podcast [here (https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/post-growth-australia-podcast/id1522194099). Subscribe here. (https://pgap.fireside.fm/subscribe) Contact us here (https://pgap.fireside.fm/contact). See you next episode? You wouldn't miss it for the world! PGAP is made possible with the kind support of Sustainable Population Australia (https://population.org.au/). If you would like to find out more about PGAP host Michael Bayliss, his website can be visited here (https://michaelbayliss.org/) (All opinions, publications and positions held by PGAP guests do not necessarily reflect the positions held by PGAP). Special Guest: Stephen Williams.

Few scientists can say they saved the planet. Paul Crutzen did. Legit. (RN Summer highlight)

If I were to hazard a guess, the odds are far more likely that someone has heard of climate change than they have of the Anthropocene. While its use has exploded since first being coined by Nobel Prize-winning chemist, Paul Crutzen, in 2000, particularly in academic circles, but also including some recent pop cultural and media references, I still maintain it probably ranks as the most profoundly important conceptual framework with which most people remain largely unfamiliar. The Anthropocene essentially means the “age of humans,” denoting that our species has become such a potent planetary force that it has radically, and in some cases irrevocably, altered the planet in a myriad of ways. This includes changes in land use, atmospheric composition, chemical cycles, most notably nitrogen and phosphorous, pollution, weather patterns, and, perhaps most tragically of all, biodiversity, as we are currently living through what has been dubbed the sixth great extinction. To better understand the Anthropocene, I decided to reach out to Dr. Will Steffen, one of the main researchers responsible for formulating the concept from its inception, and who has collaborated with other major scholars in this field, including Dr. Crutzen and Johan Rockström. After summarising some of his background, I asked my guest to clarify the primary conceptual features pertaining to the Anthropocene. Considering that the Anthropocene idea emerges to a significant extent from Earth System Science, I asked Dr. Steffen to explain more about this field. I then probed him for a so-called “bumper sticker definition” of the Anthropocene, after which I inquired about the main lines of evidence to support this classification. There is still some contention over when to date the start of the Anthropocene, which we discussed, before moving onto the “Great Acceleration,” the term for the massive expansion of economic activity across the globe after World War II. Some other topics we delved into include planetary boundaries, the notion of a “golden spike” indicating a clear demarcation between different geological ages, alternatives to the Anthropocene designation, which some scholars have argued is too broad considering not all people are impacting the world equally, and, perhaps most provocatively, whether humans are an irredeemable species considering how much destruction we have wrought on all aspects of the biosphere. On a more positive note, I asked Dr. Steffen about possible ways to address the vast impact of human activity on the planet. While this is one of my shortest interviews, it is also one of the most substantive and wide-ranging, as befits a topic of such expansive scope. After all, the Anthropocene is the ultimate interdisciplinary subject and, as the name suggests, implicates us all. Dr. Will Steffen's Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Steffen ‘The Anthropocene: Are Humans Now Overwhelming the Great Forces of Nature?': https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5610815_The_Anthropocene_Are_Humans_Now_Overwhelming_the_Great_Forces_of_Nature ‘The Anthropocene: conceptual and historical perspectives': https://www.researchgate.net/publication/49799236_The_Anthropocene_conceptual_and_historical_perspectives Twitter account for Skeptically Curious: https://twitter.com/SkepticallyCur1 Patreon page for Skeptically Curious: https://www.patreon.com/skepticallycurious

Crunch time at the COP26 Climate conference. Is Net Zero by 2050 a distraction? ABC Environment reporter Nick Kilvert joins Natasha and guests.

Featuring the latest in activist campaigns and struggles against oppression fighting for a better world with anti-capitalist analysis on current affairs and international politics. NewsreportsLatest news from the headlines in the past weekDiscussion of announcement Government promises to cut emissions to reach net zero by 2050 under new climate change plan and why it is completely inadequate in terms of addressing the Climate CrisisCrown Resorts allowed to keep Melbourne casino licence despite ‘illegal, dishonest' conduct a example of how Capitalism rules on behalf of the rich and not ordinary people.Report from Green Left Prisoner rights activists take aim at government negligence.Interview and DiscussionPre-recording of Green Left Show #18 Will Steffen on Climate Politics in the lead up to Glawgow. Climate expert, Australian National University emeritus professor and Climate Council member Will Steffen spoke to Green Left about climate science and politics in the lead up to the United Nations climate summit COP26 in Glasgow. You can view the program here.As part of our Disarmament Week (24-30 October) breakfast series Green Left Radio spoke to Dimity Hawkins from ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Australia about the current international situation in regards to disarmament and a response to some of the recent developments in Australia including the formation of AUKUS and the nuclear submarine deal with the United States and why we can't allow it to be built. You can listen to the individual interview here. 

This weekend, Prime Minister Scott Morrison will reluctantly fly to Scotland for the United Nations Climate Change Conference better known as COP26, but why did it take a tongue-lashing from Prince Charles and the Queen to convince him to attend? And why has there been such a last minute scramble between the Liberals and Nationals to finally agree to some kind of 'in-principle' plan to achieve Net Zero emissions by 2050 when we've known for decades that urgent action is needed? The Quicky speaks to a climate change expert, and an expert in Australian politics to find out if Australia really is that bad when it comes to global warming and protecting the environment, and what might go down in Glasgow? CREDITS  Host/Producer: Claire Murphy Executive Producer: Siobhán Moran-McFarlane Audio Producer: Ian Camilleri Guests: Emeritus Professor Will Steffen - Climate Council spokesperson and climate change expert based at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra Mark Kenny - Australian Studies Professor at the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, and host of the weekly politics and public affairs podcast, Democracy Sausage With Mark Kenny Subscribe to The Quicky at... https://mamamia.com.au/the-quicky/ CONTACT US Got a topic you'd like us to cover? Send us an email at thequicky@mamamia.com.au Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures. Support the show: https://www.mamamia.com.au/mplus/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Climate councillor, climate change expert Professor Will Steffen explains what net zero means. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Professor Will Steffen, Climate Council spokesperson and Emeritus Professor, Australian National University says temperatures in July offer another warning about the worsening impacts of climate change and the urgent need to reduce emissions this decade. The post Hottest July on record another climate warning: Climate Council appeared first on Mitchell's Front Page.

The speed of climate decline is reaching an alarming tipping point. Now, we are calling on all social media influencers and creative artists: it's time to hold the big companies to account, and go viral... for Earth's sake.In this episode, we explore how the art of viral marketing can influence science for good.This podcast was made possible by the University of Melbourne and the Centre of Visual Art.Thanks to our guests: Margaret Wertheim, Brent Coker, and Will Steffen.Your hosts were Dr Andi Horvath and Dr Suzie Frazer, audio engineering was by Arch Cuthbertson, with production assistance from Silvi Vann-Wall.This episode was recorded on the 11th of August 2020.

The speed of climate decline is reaching an alarming tipping point. Now, we are calling on all social media influencers and creative artists: it's time to hold the big companies to account, and go viral... for Earth's sake. In this episode, we explore how the art of viral marketing can influence science for good. This podcast was made possible by the University of Melbourne and the Centre of Visual Art. Thanks to our guests: Margaret Wertheim, Brent Coker, and Will Steffen. Your hosts were Dr Andi Horvath and Dr Suzie Frazer, audio engineering was by Arch Cuthbertson, with production assistance from Silvi Vann-Wall. This episode was recorded on the 11th of August 2020.

Few scientists can say they saved the planet. Paul Crutzen did. Legit.

The Australian Government is being overwhelmed by natural disasters; disasters that are considered natural but which have human fingerprints all over them. The universities website, The Conversation, has carried many stories about the climate crisis and two of the most recent of those are "Failure is not an option’: after a lost decade on climate action, the 2020s offer one last chance" by Professor Will Steffen, and "Cyclone Seroja just demolished parts of WA – and our warming world will bring more of the same"by Professor Jonathon Nott. Climate Conversations urges you to enjoy the music of "Music for a Warming World".

Anna Rose (pictured), the co-founder of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition spoke at a 2013 forum organized by the Shepparton-based Slap Tomorrow and talked then about the climate-driven conditions that would bring on the weather events such as those now being experienced in Australia's New South Wales. Professor Will Steffen from the Climate Council has also weighed in with a similar explanation about what is happening in NSW and has called on Australia's Federal Government and corporations to act now to rein in the climate crisis. Emphasising the need for climate science to be taken note of is a senior lecturer in climate science at the Australia National University, Dr Joëlle Gergis, who just today (March 24) had an article published on The Conversation. The climate crisis can bring on certain fatigue and so I urge you to find some respite by listening to "Music for a Warming World".

Should we be thinking about bushfire and climate change risk when we're looking for a new suburb to move house to?

Should we be thinking about bushfire and climate change risk when we're looking for a new suburb to move house to?

This is the full interview with Will Steffen from the second episode of Eavesdrop on Ideas. It explores themes of The Anthropocene - the time during which humans have had a substantial impact on our planet. Our second episode was Tipping points: from viral marketing to planetary systems. We collected comments from amazing people but the entire unedited interviews were so exciting we decided to publish them here, on the 5 Things About channel. ABOUT WILL STEFFEN Will Steffen is the emeritus professor at the ANU, the Australian National University in Canberra. He has spent much of his career working internationally on issues of global change and climate change. This podcast was made possible by the University of Melbourne and the Centre of Visual Art. Thanks to our guest Will Steffen, your hosts were Dr Andi Horvath and Dr Suzie Frazer, audio engineering was by Arch Cuthbertson. This episode was recorded on the 13th of August 2020.

This is the full interview with Will Steffen from the second episode of Eavesdrop on Ideas. It explores themes of The Anthropocene - the time during which humans have had a substantial impact on our planet.Our second episode was Tipping points: from viral marketing to planetary systems.We collected comments from amazing people but the entire unedited interviews were so exciting we decided to publish them here, on the 5 Things About channel.ABOUT WILL STEFFENWill Steffen is the emeritus professor at the ANU, the Australian National University in Canberra. He has spent much of his career working internationally on issues of global change and climate change.This podcast was made possible by the University of Melbourne and the Centre of Visual Art. Thanks to our guest Will Steffen, your hosts were Dr Andi Horvath and Dr Suzie Frazer, audio engineering was by Arch Cuthbertson.This episode was recorded on the 13th of August 2020.

Do you feel lost in the Anthropocene? Would you like a map to chart your way through our changing world? How about an atlas? Well, the Feral Atlas Collective has something that might help you out. In this episode Anna Tsing, an anthropologist from U.C. Santa Cruz, tells us about the Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene.  Feral Atlas is one of the most unusual book projects that I have seen or been a part of (it includes my “field report” about colonial era sewer rats in Hanoi). It is a digital book published by Stanford University Press in 2020 and can be accessed for free here.  Exploring Feral Atlas is like taking a walk on the wild side as there is no structured or required way to enter into its various conversations. Instead, you are invited to explore at your own risk. There are luminary essays by Sven Beckert, Amitav Ghosh, Gabrielle Hecht, Karen Ho, Simon L. Lewis and Mark A. Maslin, David M. Richardson, and Will Steffen; field reports by dozens of scholars from the humanities and sciences; and art ranging from video to poetry to music. Informative and thought-provoking, alternately humorous and emotionally gut wrenching, and provocative in both form and content, Feral Atlas invites you to go wild. Anna Tsing is a professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her numerous books include In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place (1993) Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection (2005) and The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (2015). She has received far too many awards to list here but they include Harry J. Benda Prize in Southeast Asian Studies, the Victor Turner Award, and a Guggenheim. The Feral Atlas Collective is composed of: Jennifer Deger: a visual anthropologist, filmmaker, and research leader at James Cook University, as well as the president of the Australian Anthropological Society; Alder Keleman Saxena: an environmental anthropologist at Northern Arizona University who examines the relationships linking agricultural biodiversity to human food cultures; Feifei Zhou: an artist and architect who explores ecological and cultural preservation through architectural interventions; and my guest, Anna Tsing. Michael G. Vann is a professor of world history at California State University, Sacramento. A specialist in imperialism and the Cold War in Southeast Asia, he is the author of The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empires, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam (Oxford University Press, 2018). When he’s not reading or talking about new books with smart people, Mike can be found surfing in Santa Cruz, California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you feel lost in the Anthropocene? Would you like a map to chart your way through our changing world? How about an atlas? Well, the Feral Atlas Collective has something that might help you out. In this episode Anna Tsing, an anthropologist from U.C. Santa Cruz, tells us about the Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene.  Feral Atlas is one of the most unusual book projects that I have seen or been a part of (it includes my “field report” about colonial era sewer rats in Hanoi). It is a digital book published by Stanford University Press in 2020 and can be accessed for free here.  Exploring Feral Atlas is like taking a walk on the wild side as there is no structured or required way to enter into its various conversations. Instead, you are invited to explore at your own risk. There are luminary essays by Sven Beckert, Amitav Ghosh, Gabrielle Hecht, Karen Ho, Simon L. Lewis and Mark A. Maslin, David M. Richardson, and Will Steffen; field reports by dozens of scholars from the humanities and sciences; and art ranging from video to poetry to music. Informative and thought-provoking, alternately humorous and emotionally gut wrenching, and provocative in both form and content, Feral Atlas invites you to go wild. Anna Tsing is a professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her numerous books include In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place (1993) Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection (2005) and The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (2015). She has received far too many awards to list here but they include Harry J. Benda Prize in Southeast Asian Studies, the Victor Turner Award, and a Guggenheim. The Feral Atlas Collective is composed of: Jennifer Deger: a visual anthropologist, filmmaker, and research leader at James Cook University, as well as the president of the Australian Anthropological Society; Alder Keleman Saxena: an environmental anthropologist at Northern Arizona University who examines the relationships linking agricultural biodiversity to human food cultures; Feifei Zhou: an artist and architect who explores ecological and cultural preservation through architectural interventions; and my guest, Anna Tsing. Michael G. Vann is a professor of world history at California State University, Sacramento. A specialist in imperialism and the Cold War in Southeast Asia, he is the author of The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empires, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam (Oxford University Press, 2018). When he’s not reading or talking about new books with smart people, Mike can be found surfing in Santa Cruz, California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm

Do you feel lost in the Anthropocene? Would you like a map to chart your way through our changing world? How about an atlas? Well, the Feral Atlas Collective has something that might help you out. In this episode Anna Tsing, an anthropologist from U.C. Santa Cruz, tells us about the Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene.  Feral Atlas is one of the most unusual book projects that I have seen or been a part of (it includes my “field report” about colonial era sewer rats in Hanoi). It is a digital book published by Stanford University Press in 2020 and can be accessed for free here.  Exploring Feral Atlas is like taking a walk on the wild side as there is no structured or required way to enter into its various conversations. Instead, you are invited to explore at your own risk. There are luminary essays by Sven Beckert, Amitav Ghosh, Gabrielle Hecht, Karen Ho, Simon L. Lewis and Mark A. Maslin, David M. Richardson, and Will Steffen; field reports by dozens of scholars from the humanities and sciences; and art ranging from video to poetry to music. Informative and thought-provoking, alternately humorous and emotionally gut wrenching, and provocative in both form and content, Feral Atlas invites you to go wild. Anna Tsing is a professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her numerous books include In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place (1993) Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection (2005) and The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (2015). She has received far too many awards to list here but they include Harry J. Benda Prize in Southeast Asian Studies, the Victor Turner Award, and a Guggenheim. The Feral Atlas Collective is composed of: Jennifer Deger: a visual anthropologist, filmmaker, and research leader at James Cook University, as well as the president of the Australian Anthropological Society; Alder Keleman Saxena: an environmental anthropologist at Northern Arizona University who examines the relationships linking agricultural biodiversity to human food cultures; Feifei Zhou: an artist and architect who explores ecological and cultural preservation through architectural interventions; and my guest, Anna Tsing. Michael G. Vann is a professor of world history at California State University, Sacramento. A specialist in imperialism and the Cold War in Southeast Asia, he is the author of The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empires, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam (Oxford University Press, 2018). When he’s not reading or talking about new books with smart people, Mike can be found surfing in Santa Cruz, California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode we will explore the notion of thinking at different timescales. We will look at four different time scales: the Great Acceleration (1950-2020), Holocene (last 10,000 years), Anthropocene (current epoch), and the emergence of Homo Sapiens (200,000 years). Some references: On the notion of "crisis" in Chinese meaning danger + "incipient moment" (rather than opportunity), reference is to Sinologist Victor Mair. See http://www.pinyin.info/chinese/crisis.html On the Great Acceleration, the work of Will Steffen and others; graphs depicting different components of the Great Acceleration are first published in 2004, the updated in 2010. (cf. http://www.igbp.net/globalchange/greatacceleration.4.1b8ae20512db692f2a680001630.html) On the notion of a "safe operating space", the phrase comes from Johan Rockstrom and others working out of the Stockholm Resilience Center, two major papers published in 2009 in Ecology & Society and in Nature researching "planetary boundaries". New episodes coming out every Thursday! We'd love to hear from you! Feel free to get in touch with us on instagram @afterthought_podcast, facebook @AfterthoughtPodcastCDK, or by emailing us at afterthoughtpodcast2019@gmail.com

Jakarta is sinking, Zombie fires, Terrapass, Tongass, Pendley, NASA, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, climate a financial risk, Ron Johnson, Leah Namugerwa, Saoi O'Conner, David Wicker, Will Steffen. I hope you liked the show! You can learn more about this episode via the links listed below. Feel free to contact me at rf@richardfriedman.net or @bofepodcast Jakarta is sinking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96cETZnhH6k (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96cETZnhH6k) Zombie Fires https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SDuNmt3Wyo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SDuNmt3Wyo) Terrapass https://www.terrapass.com/ (https://www.terrapass.com/) Tongass https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25092020/roadless-rule-tongass-alaska-logging (https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25092020/roadless-rule-tongass-alaska-logging) Pendley dumped https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2020-09-25/judge-removes-trumps-public-lands-boss-after-governor-sued (https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2020-09-25/judge-removes-trumps-public-lands-boss-after-governor-sued) ISS https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-unknown-orbital-debris-narrowly-missed-striking-iss-avoidance-maneuver-2020-9 (https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-unknown-orbital-debris-narrowly-missed-striking-iss-avoidance-maneuver-2020-9) Happy Birthday Ove! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj6xmyXvRv8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj6xmyXvRv8) Climate change a major risk https://www.barrons.com/articles/climate-change-poses-a-major-risk-to-u-s-financial-system-warns-regulator-51599667397 (https://www.barrons.com/articles/climate-change-poses-a-major-risk-to-u-s-financial-system-warns-regulator-51599667397) Ron Johnson https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/wisconsin-us-sen-ron-johnson-downplays-climate-change/ (https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/wisconsin-us-sen-ron-johnson-downplays-climate-change/) Leah Namugerwa https://www.instagram.com/namugerwaleah/?hl=en (https://www.instagram.com/namugerwaleah/?hl=en) Saoi O'Conner https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-30955110.html (https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-30955110.html) David Wicker https://www.instagram.com/davidwickerhf/?hl=en Common Home Conversations Beyond UN75 https://www.theplanetarypress.com/podcast/ Support this podcastSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/a-breath-of-fresh-earth/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jakarta is sinking, Zombie fires, Terrapass, Tongass, Pendley, NASA, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, climate a financial risk, Ron Johnson, Leah Namugerwa, Saoi O'Conner, David Wicker, Will Steffen. I hope you liked the show! You can learn more about this episode via the links listed below. Feel free to contact me at rf@richardfriedman.net or @bofepodcast Jakarta is sinking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96cETZnhH6k (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96cETZnhH6k) Zombie Fires https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SDuNmt3Wyo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SDuNmt3Wyo) Terrapass https://www.terrapass.com/ (https://www.terrapass.com/) Tongass https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25092020/roadless-rule-tongass-alaska-logging (https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25092020/roadless-rule-tongass-alaska-logging) Pendley dumped https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2020-09-25/judge-removes-trumps-public-lands-boss-after-governor-sued (https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2020-09-25/judge-removes-trumps-public-lands-boss-after-governor-sued) ISS https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-unknown-orbital-debris-narrowly-missed-striking-iss-avoidance-maneuver-2020-9 (https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-unknown-orbital-debris-narrowly-missed-striking-iss-avoidance-maneuver-2020-9) Happy Birthday Ove! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj6xmyXvRv8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj6xmyXvRv8) Climate change a major risk https://www.barrons.com/articles/climate-change-poses-a-major-risk-to-u-s-financial-system-warns-regulator-51599667397 (https://www.barrons.com/articles/climate-change-poses-a-major-risk-to-u-s-financial-system-warns-regulator-51599667397) Ron Johnson https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/wisconsin-us-sen-ron-johnson-downplays-climate-change/ (https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/wisconsin-us-sen-ron-johnson-downplays-climate-change/) Leah Namugerwa https://www.instagram.com/namugerwaleah/?hl=en (https://www.instagram.com/namugerwaleah/?hl=en) Saoi O’Conner https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-30955110.html (https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-30955110.html) David Wicker https://www.instagram.com/davidwickerhf/?hl=en Common Home Conversations Beyond UN75 https://www.theplanetarypress.com/podcast/ Support this podcast

In this episode, James joins with Russian environmental journalist Angelina Davydova to host a conversation about Russia, Australia and climate change. Both countries have recently seen extreme summers, and people are increasingly awakening to the impacts of climate change. We also share large fossil fuel export industries, and governments recalcitrant to act. Featuring:Angelina Davydova - Angelina is the director of the NGO Office of Environmental Information (based in St. Petersburg, Russia), which works in the area of cooperation between Russia and other countries in the climate and environmental sectors. She is also one of the leading climate journalists in Russia, regularly contributing to Russian and international media. She also teaches at a number of universities in Russia.Dr Alexey Kokorin - Dr. Kokorin is Director of Climate and Energy Program of the WWF – Russia. He served for the World Wide Fund for Nature from 2000. From 1984 to 1999, Dr. Kokorin worked in the Institute of Global Climate and Ecology of Russian Hydrometeorology Agency and Academy of Science including as Leading Scientist (1997-1999). In 2007, he was awarded by Nobel Peace Prize in large group of authors of the IPCC reports. Professor Will Steffen - Professor Steffen is Emeritus Professor at the Fenner School of Environment & Society at ANU. He has a long history in international global change research, serving from 1998 to 2004 as Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), based in Stockholm, Sweden, and before that as Executive Officer of IGBP's Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems project. Will was the Inaugural Director of the ANU Climate Change Institute, from 2008-2012. Prior to that, he was Director of the ANU Fenner School of Environment and Society. From 2004 to 2011 he served as science adviser to the Australian Government Department of Climate Change. He is currently a Climate Councillor with the Climate Council. 

At the beginning of 2017, Steffen Sontheimer close to $500,000 in live cashes and flew under the radar of many in the Poker world. But some seemed to notice the rising talent already: "Predicting the breakout year of Go0se.core! Best player in the game right now.", Fedor Holz wrote on Twitter. Well, Fedor was right. The same year, Steffen cashed for $7.052.324 and destroyed the Poker Masters series in the Aria Casino Las Vegas, when he claimed the Purple Jacket and cashed 4 out of 5 high roller tournaments against the best in the world. We cover a lot of topics in this conversation. It's always a pleasure to talk to Steffen, he's one of the smartest people in the poker world. I hope you'll enjoy this rerun (the episode was originially published on YouTube in March 2020)   Also, make sure to check out Steffen's Instagram profile "coachgo0se" You can find it here: https://www.instagram.com/coachgo0se/   YouTube playlist: https://bit.ly/podcast-yt   CONNECT:  Subscribe to newsletter: https://www.runchukspodcast.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/RunchuksP Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/runchukspoker Coaching: https://bit.ly/bts-coaching   OUTLINE: 00:01:18 Steffen “go0se.core!” Sontheimer Introduction by Toby 00:05:59 What are Steffen current goals 00:08:00 Why Steffen stopped traveling for Super High Rollers 00:16:30 “My biggest freedom that I have is never setting an alarm clock” 00:18:45 Steffen enjoy online poker more than live poker? 00:21:40 Travelling for High Rollers Tournaments 00:23:23 The pressure from investors? 00:24:53 Super High Roller Bowl 00:28:02 Where is the pressure coming from? 00:31:27 Proofing to himself 00:31:58 Insane amount of work for playing Super High Rollers 00:35:05 Natural confidence 00:39:05 Fedor Holz influence 00:40:35 Steffen first High Roller Tournament 00:43:48 First live tournament and Fedor Holz story 00:44:57 Steffen Hand against Nick Petrangelo on first High Roller Final Table 00:46:59 The German High Roller Team lead by Fedor Holz 00:56:43 The Content Hiding Mafia 01:00:02 Crushing without a group and LLinusLLove story 01:02:38 Will Steffen stream again? 01:04:39 Does Steffen plan to move up the stakes? 01:06:33 It will be possible to make 3-4 bb/100 on NL200 Zoom for the next 5 years? 01:08:57 Motivation to keep playing and browser game 01:15:36 The difference from NL2 to NL500 is the same from NL500 to NL10k? 01:18:06 Steffen plan for 2020 and taxes 01:21:14 Decision to settle down 01:23:23 Achieving Super Nova Elite 01:30:37 Multi-tabling now and then 01:37:51 WSOP or UEFA Euro for 2020? 01:40:36 COVID-19 canceling WSOP? 01:44:17 Steffen toughest online opponents 01:50:02 Meeting a poker celebrity for the first time 01:52:54 Meeting Phil Ivey 01:54:05 Meeting Gerard Piqué 01:56:01 Meeting Kevin Hart and Usain Bolt 01:59:15 Runchuks meeting Russell Westbrook 02:00:59 Runchuks meeting Phil Kessel 02:02:20 Becoming a celebrity 02:06:03 And becoming a role model too? 02:07:56 Blackjack Degen stories 02:11:05 Test-drive in Las Vegas desert 02:16:43 Where Steffen is going towards to? 02:19:39 From the bottom to the very top and remaining a down to earth guy 02:23:46 Steffen on social media

In today's episode, we discuss Earth System science and tipping points with Will Steffen. We often hear about tipping points in relation to climate change–the dangers of arctic ice melt, sea level rise and the 2-2.5 degrees C temperature threshold beyond which things become catastrophic. What we don't always realize is the complexity of system dynamics. Will talks about the likelihood of a tipping cascade, when one tipping point kicks off a series of others. He also draws parallels between COVID-19 and climate change, in that it's important to understand science and not just what intervention needs to take place but to plan for the amount of time it takes for it to take effect.Will Steffen has a long history in international global change research, serving from 1998 to 2004 as Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), based in Stockholm, Sweden, and before that as Executive Officer of IGBP's Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems project.Will was the Inaugural Director of the ANU Climate Change Institute, from 2008-2012. Prior to that, he was Director of the ANU Fenner School of Environment and Society. From 2004 to 2011 he served as science adviser to the Australian Government Department of Climate Change. He is currently a Climate Councillor with the Climate Institute, and from 2011 to 2013 was a Climate Commissioner on the Australian Government's Climate Commission; Chair of the Antarctic Science Advisory Committee, Co-Director of the Canberra Urban and Regional Futures (CURF) initiative and Member of the ACT Climate Change Council.Steffen's interests span a broad range within the fields of sustainability and Earth System science, with an emphasis on the science of climate change, approaches to climate change adaptation in land systems, incorporation of human processes in Earth System modelling and analysis; and the history and future of the relationship between humans and the rest of nature.The post Episode 94: Interview with Will Steffen, climate scientist appeared first on The Sustainability Agenda.

SPEAKERS: Damon Gameau, Will Steffen, Michelle Lim and Lord Mayor Sandy Verschoor HOST: Bernie Hobbs The planet is suffering because humans have failed to listen and act. We have failed to act responsibly as individuals and governments have failed to listen to the scientific consensus and act fast. Despite being faced with unprecedented biodiversity loss, mass species extinctions and the dire consequences of a world not meeting the 2015 Paris climate change pledges, our panel however is still optimistic. Find out why in a discussion about protecting, restoring, funding and the revolutionary and transformative changes they’re supporting to fix the mess we have collectively created.

“…Tra il 1950 e il 2020 la popolazione globale è triplicata, il PIL mondiale è cresciuto 7 volte, il consumo di acqua è triplicato, l'uso di energia è quadruplicato, l'impiego di fertilizzanti è decuplicato.
"Nel tempo di una sola vita, l'umanità è diventata una forza geologica su scala planetaria, di conseguenza ha una nuova responsabilità nei confronti del pianeta" Will Steffen…”

Will Steffen is one of Australia's great climate warriors and is not afraid to tell it like it is, letting the facts be the basis of the story.Will, a professor from the Canberra-based Australia National University was once a member of the Australian Government's former Climate Commission, but is now a part of the community-backed Climate Council.Asked what we could do as individuals about the climate crisis, the professor suggested we should obviously attend to our personal emissions, but then exercise our democratic rights and agitate for a government that will take a positive stand in addressing the crisis.

Professor Will Steffen is a climate change expert and researcher at the Australian National University, Canberra. He has recently co-written a paper in the journal Nature "Climate tipping points — too risky to bet against." Arguing that the growing threat of abrupt and irreversible climate changes must compel political and economic action on emissions. He spoke to Environmental as Anything about his work. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/environmental-as-anything/message

Syan unpacks climate change with Dr Will Steffen and Gavin Bain. For more information on Greta go here -> https://bit.ly/2Hz8uM7 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Cette deuxième séance abordera 4 parmi les principales différentes datations proposées pour faire débuter l’anthropocène. Savoir si l’époque commence dès le néolithique, vers 1600-1610, au moment de l’apparition de la machine à vapeur de James Watt ou en 1950 n’est pas un débat scientifique accessoire. En effet, chaque choix renvoie à des conceptions différentes de l’anthropocène. On s’attardera en particulier à l’hypothèse dite de la "grande accélération", développée depuis 2004 par une série de chercheurs emmenés par Will Steffen, qui permet de lancer la réflexion sur la relation entre urbanisation et changement global. Les Cours publics de l’Ecole urbaine de Lyon consacrés aux questions urbaines et anthropocènes. Cette activité est conçue sur le modèle des cours du Collège de France. Il s’agit de proposer à des chercheurs de l’université de Lyon, de toute origine disciplinaire, de présenter à tous ceux qui souhaitent suivre ces séances (librement, sans condition de diplômes et sans évaluation finale), les résultats de leurs travaux de recherche, dans une perspective de remise au cœur de la société des savoirs scientifiques. Le Cours public "Qu’est-ce que l’anthropocène ?" Le terme Anthropocène s’impose et se diffuse de plus en plus, tant auprès des scientifiques que du grand public. Dans un cas comme dans l’autre, il suscite de nombreux débats et discussions, ce qui est un indice de sa puissance. Celle-ci est due à ce qu’il recouvre : l’idée d’une bifurcation dans l’histoire de l’humanisation de la planète et une bifurcation qui menace possiblement l’habitabilité de la terre. C’est la raison pour laquelle il a été placé au cœur du projet scientifique et pédagogique de l’Ecole urbaine de Lyon, avec notamment un cycle de cours publics qui lui est entièrement consacré, assuré par Michel Lussault, directeur de l’Ecole urbaine de Lyon. Programme complet du Cours public "Qu’est-ce que l’anthropocène ?" Pour cette première année, ce cours, qui se prolongera les années universitaires suivantes, posera les cadres d’une possible théorie critique de l’anthropocène. Il s’agira de présenter les différentes approches de l’anthropocène, mais aussi les contestations existantes de la pertinence de ce mot. Le programme comporte 6 séances d’1h30 (dont une petite période de questions en fin de séance) : 1. Leçon inaugurale. Planète, Terre, Monde : le global entre en scène. Jeudi 24 janvier, 17 heures, Halles du Faubourg, 10, impasse des Chalets, Lyon 7ème 2. La rupture des années 1950 ou la « grande accélération ». Jeudi 14 février, 12h30, amphithéâtre de la MILC, 35 rue Raulin, Lyon 7ème 3. Pourquoi faudrait-il admettre la nouveauté de l’anthropocène ? Le global fait sens : proposition pour appréhender le système PTM (Planète/Terre/Monde). Jeudi 28 février, 12h30, lieu en cours de détermination. 4. Le système-PTM, un état des lieux 1. Jeudi 7 mars, 12h30, lieu en cours de détermination, Lyon 7ème. 5. Le système-PTM, un état des lieux 2 : le rôle et la place de l’urbanisation. Jeudi 14 mars 12h30, Université de Lyon, Grand amphithéâtre, 92, rue Pasteur, Lyon 7ème. 6. Quelle trajectoire pour le système-PTM ? L’anthropocène comme défi scientifique et politique mondial. Jeudi 11 avril, 12h30, lieu en cours de détermination.

 Beyond Zero Community     11-2-19TREESThe big project of restoring and rehydrating our farm lands needs strong minds but  as Historian Bruce Pascoe says " Caring for the earth makes us strong"He tells us about restoring glades in our forests so they cannot burn so wildly.Negative EmissionsProfessor Justin Borevitz wants to see  a lot more trees and a lot less landclearing. He sees one gigatonne of carbon as the drawdown potential of our wide brown land. The early adopters of regenerative farming are showing the way. Some are adding basalt rock dust to the soil to enhance its carbon sequestration capacity. Could miners transitioning our of coal help restore the climate with basalt?Are trees the new coal?Peg Putt spoke to us from Tasmania. where bush fires are damaging forest in place where fire has not been seen for thousands of years. She spoke to the UN at Katowice about preserving world forests from the new form of woodchips. It is called Bio energy but it is a lie to say it has zero impact on the climate when burned. Peg's revelations will shock you and this is a battle we need to take to the politicians.Breaking News"Judge rejects Coal Mine because of the climate impact of its product."That should be on every front page as it sets a global precedent. David Shoebridge tells us about the Rocky Hill decision. How Justice Brian Preston, a leading thinker on the Land and Environment Court of NSW, made history.A big shout out to those who gave evidence and persuaded him that it's about time. They have all been on this show and persevered even when eveything looked grim. The NSW EDO, Groundswell Gloucester, Tim Buckley from IEEFA and Professor Will Steffen.GuestsJustin Borevitz- Professor of Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change in the School of Biology ANUPeg Putt - Co Ordinator of the working group on forest, climate and Biomass and COP24 in Katowice PolandBruce Pascoe - Author of Dark Emu and expert on Aboriginal Agriculture and GovernanceDavid Shoebridge- NSW Parliamentarian and Greens Spokesperson on PlanningScientists Warning Vimeo:David Beerling about Rock Dust drawing down carbon into soils. Team Adelle Mills on panelVivien Langford - InterviewsRoger Vize PodcastAnd thank you for research and Technical Help  to Gerard Wedderburn Bisshop, Gerard Mc Evilly, Paul Mahoney, Michaella Stubbs and Andy Britt.You can help our work by subscribing to Radio 3CR( $75.00 for an annual subscription) or by getting this show regularly sent to your podcatcher (free)Contact us at Radioteam@BZE.org.au

Earth system science studies the planet as an array of interacting “spheres” that represent components of a single system. Antarctica dominates the cryosphere—the frozen parts of the planet consisting of ice and snow—and thus has a major influence on the overall functioning of the Earth system. Joining the podcast is Prof. Will Steffen, a world leading Earth system scientist and public intellectual who has long operated at the interface of science and policy, including as chairman of the Antarctic Science Advisory Committee in Australia. He is also closely associated with concepts such as the Anthropocene, the Great Acceleration, and the Planetary Boundaries framework. In addition to explaining the centrality of Antarctica in the Earth system, Prof. Steffen discusses the idea of “Hothouse Earth”, evoked in an article published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, which received a great deal of international media attention.  

Mankind’s impact on Earth extends well beyond climate change to the broader biosphere, where the conditions that nurtured the development of modern humans are at risk of being lost in a new epoch known as the Anthropocene.---Climate change makes headline news, but mankind's changes to planet Earth go well beyond rising temperatures. In this episode of Energy Policy Now prominent earth system scientist Will Steffen explores the dawn of a new geologic epoch, the Anthropocene, where the systems of sea, land, and air will be unlike those experienced in human history.The term Anthropocene, coined less than two decades ago, emphasizes the rising influence of humans on earth system processes, and our emerging role as the dominant force shaping Earth’s biologic and geologic systems. Steffen looks at the political and economic systems that have accelerated man’s impact on Earth since the middle of the 20th century, and at the role of technology and policy in slowing global change.Will Steffen is emeritus professor at the Australian National University, former executive director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, and a former member of the Australian government’s Climate Commission.

Listen Now The below November 7th podcast post provides a link to an essay that, in part, provides an overview of the United Nation's International Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC's) recent report titled, "Global Warming of 1.5°C."  As noted in the essay, what is particularly noteworthy about the IPCC's report is its conclusion that keeping or holding temperature increases to below 2°C, the goal of the Paris climate accord, would not avoid the more serious effects of global warming.  For example, at 1.5°C of warming a significant percent of vertebrates, insects and plants would lose half of their climatically-determined geographic range and 70 to 90 percent of coral reefs would be lost.   During this 28 minute conversation Professor Kirstie Ebi begins by briefly explaining the IPCC's work, she then discusses several of the findings in chapter 3, that she co-authored and is titled, "Impacts of 1.5°C Global Warming on Natural and Human Systems.," Professor Ebi makes note of the international climate change research communities' upcoming meeting in Poland, next issue of the US's Climate Science Special Report, anticipated in December, and comments on the health care industry's responsibility and opportunity to contribute to solving the climate crisis. Professor Kristie L. Ebi, is the Director of the Center for Health and Global Environment (CHanGE) and the Rohm and Haas Endowed Professor in Public Health Sciences at the University of Washington.  She is the author of multiple national and international climate change assessments, including the IPCC's recently published Report on Global Warming of 1.5C.  Professor Ebi co-chairs the International Committee on New Integrated Climate change assessment Scenarios (ICONICS) that created five scenarios of socioeconomic development over this century.  Professor Ebi's scientific training includes a MS in toxicology and a Ph.D. and a Masters of Public Health in epidemiology and two years of post-graduate research at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine  She has edited four books on aspects of climate change and over 200 publications.The IPCC report is at: http://www.ipcc.ch/report/sr15/ Though not noted during this discussion, it's worth noting here the much discussed essay by Will Steffen and colleagues published this past August in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) regarding "hothouse earth."  The essay, "Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene," is at: http://www.pnas.org/content/115/33/8252 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

Earth is no longer a safe operating space, according to today's guest on rabble radio. Look at the dramatic and devastating events of this year – hundreds of fires across the world, monster sized hurricanes, earth parching heat waves and drought. All but the most stubborn of climate change deniers can see this. Unfortunately, some of those climate change deniers are politicians who are making decisions which affect our very survival. It's grim. Will Steffen has a long history in international global change research, serving from 1998 to 2004 as Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), based in Stockholm, Sweden, and before that as Executive Officer of IGBP's Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems project. He was the Inaugural Director of the Australian National University's Climate Change Institute, from 2008-2012.   He is currently a Climate Councillor with the Climate Institute, and from 2011 to 2013 was a Climate Commissioner on the Australian Government's Climate Commission; Chair of the Antarctic Science Advisory Committee, Co-Director of the Canberra Urban and Regional Futures (CURF) initiative and Member of the ACT Climate Change Council. He is co-author of a paper called Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene.  On today's podcast he talks about that paper, written with Johan Rockström looks at the earth as a geophysical system. It presents the theory that the earth is no longer a sustainable space – we're in a transient phase. The earth is shifting and we don't have a map to see what trajectory it might take. But, Will Steffen says, it's like a domino effect. Once temperatures reach a certain level, those dominoes will start to fall to the point where nothing can be done. We're not at that tipping point yet, but the science indicates that it's coming. This interview is from the August 17, 2018 episode of The Green Blues Show, hosted and produced by David Kattenburg who is an occasional contributor to rabble radio. Listen to the Green Blues Show on CKUW Radio in Winnipeg or online by going to greenplanetmonitor.net. Thanks to  for permission to reuse this interview. Image: Wikipedia – Forest Fire in Yosemite  Help make rabble sustainable. Please consider supporting our work with a monthly donation. Support rabble.ca today for as little as $1 per month!

Ever been to a climate change talk or watched a documentary and felt heavy, powerless, despair? Well, this conversation is going to leave you feeling different - can do, ra ra and empowered. Sound better?   Let me tell you a bit about Professor Will…  Will Steffen has a long history in international global change research, serving from 1998 to 2004 as Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), based in Stockholm, Sweden, and before that as Executive Officer of IGBP's Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems project.  Will was the Inaugural Director of the ANU Climate Change Institute, from 2008-2012.  Prior to that, he was Director of the ANU Fenner School of Environment and Society. From 2004 to 2011 he served as science adviser to the Australian Government Department of Climate Change. He is currently a Climate Councillor with the Climate Institute, and from 2011 to 2013 was a Climate Commissioner on the Australian Government's Climate Commission; Chair of the Antarctic Science Advisory Committee, Co-Director of the Canberra Urban and Regional Futures (CURF) initiative and Member of the ACT Climate Change Council.  Steffen's interests span a broad range within the fields of sustainability and Earth System science, with an emphasis on the science of climate change, approaches to climate change adaptation in land systems, incorporation of human processes in Earth System modelling and analysis; and the history and future of the relationship between humans and the rest of nature.  So: We have a wonderful scientist with a long list of accomplishments in his career that has spanned decades and the best part is that he so passionately and simply states the issues, shares and helps us understand the science, looks at the future projections and what you and I can do to keep on the good side of mother nature. I’ve wanted to do a show on climate change for a long while and finding Will has meant the perfect show embedded with the low tox values of empowered joyful change, rather than paralysis and overwhelm in the face of the world’s biggest issue. I hope you enjoy the show as much as I enjoyed putting it together for you. As usual you can find show notes and our sponsor offers over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast Here’s to a happy planet, Alexx x 

The Earth's climate system is a vastly complicated lumbering beast, but what happens when humans prod it with a greenhouse stick? Surely humans are small and insignificant creatures but the planet is large. That may have been true once, but not any more. Professor Will Steffen is a Council of Australia councillor. Read his SMH article about Penrith swelters while Florida freezes. Inez Harker-Schuch is the creator of a game to teaches climate science. Inez describes how the Milankovitch Cycles affect climate. We play an extract of an interview with Clive Hamilton. You can hear the full interview with Clive here.   Interviews by Rod

Beyond Zero radio talk to Professor Will Steffen about the human impacts of climate change. Australia’s critical window of opportunity to tackle climate change is closing, and Prof Steffen speaks about a new landmark report, Critical Decade 2017: Accelerating Climate Action.

Will Steffen served as a climate change expert and researcher at the Australian National University, Canberra. He was on the panel of experts supporting the Multi-Party Climate Change Committee, has served as the Science Adviser to the Australian Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, and was chair of the Antarctic Science Advisory Committee. In the aftermath of the US election, we ask Australian National University Emeritus Professor Will Steffen to unpick some of the environmental implications of climate change and how best to address this complex geopolitical issue from a scientific viewpoint. Will recognises the urgency of climate change and the action necessary to manage global environmental security into the future. Originally broadcast on 28th November, 2016. Tune in to SubjectACT 8.30-9am each weekday

This weeks episode is an interview with Will Steffen. He an Australian Earth system scientist and he knows a lot about things like the biosphere, glacial cycles, ocean acidification, fossil industry, geo-engineering, complex system, feedbacks, resilience and tipping points. One of the stories Steffen will share with you is the situation when Nobel prize winner Paul Crutzen invented the name and concept of The Anthropocene. Will was one of the scientists in the room as it happened in at a workshop in Mexico 2000. He will also describe the The Great Acceleration, another concept that was born with Will and his colleagues at IGBP. He shares his top three high-level tasks that we need to manage a lot better than we’ve done so far, Radiative balance, Human Equity and our connection to the Biosphere. We also talk about metaphors, energy, tipping points in nature as well as in the social-political system and the post-truth era in society. Conclusions... a lot. For instance tipping points. Both in nature, for exemplet with the Arctic ice melting and it’s albedo feedback… But also the tipping points in renewable energy. We are so locked in to the view that the price of oil sets the price of all energy, consumption, travel, inflation and people worrying about their energy bills etc. But what happens if/when it is cheaper to build solar farms and put up solar panels on your roof-top than to dig up fossil carbon and build big infrastructure like coal fired power plants? That is a shift, not only in how we produce electricity, but in the way the price is set and who is to get the money. It is a shift of power, in many different ways. I also find the discussion about the feedbacks in system very interesting. You have feedbacks in all complex systems. They take different forms, for example the feedbacks from society to climate, the climate negotiations and the UNFCCC, trying to keep the climate system in a stable situation. And the resilience of the fossil industry threatening the resilience of both climate and civilisation as we know it (and hence of course also the fossil industry itself). I slso ask Will about his favourite metaphors, for example to describe complex systems, feedbacks etc. Martin Hedberg

This weeks episode is an interview with Will Steffen. He an Australian Earth system scientist and he knows a lot about things like the biosphere, glacial cycles, ocean acidification, fossil industry, geo-engineering, complex system, feedbacks, resilience and tipping points. One of the stories Steffen will share with you is the situation when Nobel prize winner Paul Crutzen invented the name and concept of The Anthropocene. Will was one of the scientists in the room as it happened in at a workshop in Mexico 2000. He will also describe the The Great Acceleration, another concept that was born with Will and his colleagues at IGBP. He shares his top three high-level tasks that we need to manage a lot better than we've done so far, Radiative balance, Human Equity and our connection to the Biosphere. We also talk about metaphors, energy, tipping points in nature as well as in the social-political system and the post-truth era in society. Conclusions... a lot. For instance tipping points. Both in nature, for exemplet with the Arctic ice melting and it's albedo feedback… But also the tipping points in renewable energy. We are so locked in to the view that the price of oil sets the price of all energy, consumption, travel, inflation and people worrying about their energy bills etc. But what happens if/when it is cheaper to build solar farms and put up solar panels on your roof-top than to dig up fossil carbon and build big infrastructure like coal fired power plants? That is a shift, not only in how we produce electricity, but in the way the price is set and who is to get the money. It is a shift of power, in many different ways. I also find the discussion about the feedbacks in system very interesting. You have feedbacks in all complex systems. They take different forms, for example the feedbacks from society to climate, the climate negotiations and the UNFCCC, trying to keep the climate system in a stable situation. And the resilience of the fossil industry threatening the resilience of both climate and civilisation as we know it (and hence of course also the fossil industry itself). I slso ask Will about his favourite metaphors, for example to describe complex systems, feedbacks etc. Martin Hedberg

Climate change has been described as the most difficult problem human society has ever faced. But in the face of influential vested interests and governments that seem slow to respond, the social sector plays a vital role. Global warming is happening now – from the bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef to bushfires to the mega-storm that caused a blackout across South Australia. Leading scientists say there is no time to waste in saving the planet. But Australia’s carbon footprint is anything but insignificant. We’re the world’s largest coal exporter, one of the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitters, and the largest emitter per person of any country in the developed world. In The Fight Against Climate Change, the first episode of the Green Nation three-part series, Not for Podcast investigates the importance of civil society in agitating for change. Download the transcript here. Featured in this episode: Professor Will Steffen, climate change expert and researcher at the ANU, and a councilor at the Climate Council of Australia Anika Molesworth, a farmer and climate change advocate currently undertaking a PhD in sustainable agriculture Sara Bice, socio-political commentator from the University of Melbourne Victoria McKenzie-McHarg, Australian Conservation Foundation climate change campaign manager, and the director of the board for the Climate Action Network Australia Adam Black, senior campaigner on the Environmental Justice team for Get Up. Produced by Ellie Cooper and Wendy Williams.

What impact will Climate Change have on thecurrent extreme shifts in global weather patterns? "This is the second year of extreme heat in southeast Asia...all this was predicted by recent studies. The same studies say it will get even hotter, for longer periods, as the decades progress." "...the poorest victims of this heat are the least responsible for global warming. The source of the pollution has been half a world away, where most of us live in fossil-powered luxury. But in a world connected by finance, trade, and airplanes, the blowback can travel back from half a world – from the steaming countries of India and Pakistan." Professors David Karoly and Will Steffen describe what scientists expect over the next decades as we fail to decrease carbon emissions.Dr Adil Najam, Pakistani expert on International Affairs takes us to Karachi’s most punishing heat waves and the climate refugees that are flocking away from unlivable conditions.

This talk was recorded at the launch of Dr Andrew Glikson's and Professor Colin Groves' latest book 'Climate, Fire and Human Evolution: The Deep Time Dimensions of the Anthropocene'. Dr Glikson and Professor Groves were also joined by Professor Will Steffen and Professor Stephen Eggins to explore future climate trends and debate the philosophy of science. 'Climate, Fire and Human Evolution' uses Earth System science to explain pre-historic human evolution, give insight into the origins of the mastery of fire and broaden our understanding of climate change. It outlines principal milestones in the evolution of the atmosphere, oceans and biosphere during the last 4 million years in relation with the evolution of primates to the genus Homo - which uniquely mastered the ignition and transfer of fire.

Climate scientist Will Steffen, at the Australian National University, argues that to limit the impacts of climate change on island nations in the Pacific may require technology that takes carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

Climate scientist Will Steffen, at the Australian National University, argues that to limit the impacts of climate change on island nations in the Pacific may require technology that takes carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

Will Steffen discusses the processes that define the planetary boundaries framework: a safe operating space within which humanity can still thrive on earth. Jenna Jambeck examines the factors influencing how much plastic debris a nation contributes to the ocean. David Grimm discusses daily news stories. Hosted by Susanne Bard. [Img: Bo Eide Creative Commons License BY-NC-ND 2.0]

Will Steffen discusses the processes that define the planetary boundaries framework: a safe operating space within which humanity can still thrive on earth. Jenna Jambeck examines the factors influencing how much plastic debris a nation contributes to the ocean. David Grimm discusses daily news stories. Hosted by Susanne Bard. [Img: Bo Eide Creative Commons License BY-NC-ND 2.0]

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