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Nathan Bindoff (00:00):
From time to
time, I do think about the future.
My dream is the picture we sofrequently paint will be different.
Not the catastrophe that is sofrequently forecast, but a world where
the pressing problems that cut off,circumvented with human ingenuity
and self-realization and mobilized bycollaborative effort, a world where humans
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decide the future to be sustainable.
And transformed and a transformed one thatsuccessfully reconciles climate change our
needs for food, energy, and all of life.
That is what I imagine we can achieve.
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It's inspiration Monday and today'sexperts offer their research
and insights on climate change.
Well, I've gathered a collectionof inspiring and informative audio
clips from different episodes andguests of your positive imprint.
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As always, I'll provide informationregarding the brilliant individuals
featured in today's inspiration Mondayat the conclusion of today's episode.
Imagine infinity.
Climate change.
Human caused global warming.
Our planet in a state of urgency.
Terry Lilley (02:36):
Who's liable for the
cleanup caused by climate change?
Catherine (02:43):
Glastonbury Festival was held
in the United Kingdom, a new laboratory
stage that brought science to life.
Climate change was among the topicsthat festival goers learned about
through demonstrations, games
and music, including musicfrom the Matt Palmer Band.
Matt Palmer (03:02):
There is a song that
was on that EP called The Flood,
which is about sea level rise.
I think it's a topic that in,in some places, perhaps it's
becoming better understood.
Catherine (03:14):
Well, professor Bindoff
and his colleagues documented some of
the first evidence of the high meltrates of the Antarctic ice sheet.
Nathan Bindoff (03:22):
And that voyage
was the first ever against the
Antarctic continent in winter.
That was 1998, but that wasthe Australian ice breaker.
So we estimated that a melt rate, andwe came to understand how much was being
lost by the ice sheet there in winter.
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So it was transferring mass in theAntarctic ice sheet itself into the
oceans and causing sea level to go up.
Josh Willis (03:52):
Climate change is a
massive shift of our planet and our
civilization is built on the climatewe've had for thousands of years.
Terry Lilley (04:01):
We also have natural
changes that happen on the earth.
Niall Robinson (04:05):
I was lucky enough
to live in the rainforest for four
months, uh, measuring the gases thatthe trees produce there because they
affect the way clouds are created,and that affects the radiation
balance, which affects climate change.
Mike Silvestrini (04:18):
We need more of
those things so that we can turn off
the carbon emitting fossil burninginfrastructure that we currently rely on.
The
Helen Phillips (04:27):
ocean and the atmosphere
system are, are very connected, and
any changes that are experienced inthe ocean will impact the atmosphere.
Global
Catherine (04:35):
food security,
does it really exist?
Nathan Bindoff (04:38):
The fire season this year
has been an extraordinary wake up call for
Australia and the wildfires in the USA.
Helen Phillips (04:48):
And we are not
seeing major governmental direction
towards a really different wayof living on this planet so that
we can stay within its resources.
Andrew Bracken (05:00):
Sorghum is an
important crop with climate change.
Terry Lilley (05:04):
A true climate change
issue that's changing the weather, which
changes a surf, which alters the beacherosion, which led to a multimillion
dollar home falling into the surface.
Ray Schmitt (05:16):
China knows
it's got a big problem.
They have a huge pollution problem.
They know they have toshut down coal plants.
Catherine (05:21):
IPCC, which is the
intergovernmental Panel on climate change,
Nathan Bindoff (05:25):
IPCC was a.
A vision.
And that vision was an understandingthat, so this was from measurements
of atmospheric CO2, and at thatmoment there was a decision made.
Now it was in the time of MargaretThatcher and Ronald Reagan.
Matt Palmer (05:48):
I was lucky enough
to be selected as a lead author on
the IPCC sixth assessment report.
They're important because they formthe basis of the political negotiations
around greenhouse gas emissions.
And to trying to reduce those over time.
Andrew Bracken (06:08):
I'm trying to provide
farmers with tools to mitigate
the impact of climate change.
Mm-hmm.
Catherine (06:12):
Mm-hmm.
Andrew Bracken (06:13):
Because the
changes are happening so rapidly,
Kurt Polzin (06:16):
you're looking
at the world in a verytactile and tangible way.
Ray Schmitt (06:21):
Europeans are
taking climate change seriously.
They're building most of the solar panels.
The planet nowadays,
Mike Silvestrini (06:27):
you need to work
in harmony with your environment
to have a strong society.
Matt Palmer (06:32):
International governments
get together and try to agree how they're
gonna reduce greenhouse gas emissionsand curb the worst effects of climate.
Terry Lilley (06:40):
Kids can go out there
and do mushroom studies and see how
mushrooms are affected by climate change.
Helen Phillips (06:48):
Then we also have
observations from satellites so we can
see very good detail in how the surfaceof the ocean is changing through time.
Josh Willis (06:58):
These satellites are so
accurate that they can measure a change in
sea level of about one inch from 800 miles
Mike Silvestrini (07:05):
up.
They have themselves encouraged theacceleration of desertification, which
has crippling effects on economy,which result in increased violence.
Terry Lilley (07:16):
Humans here are
actually gonna have to get progressive
figure out how to be sustainable.
Matt Palmer (07:24):
Collective working,
I think, is really the future
of everything that we do.
Mike Silvestrini (07:28):
Germany has a
per capita success story going
on, where about 53% of their totalelectric mix comes from renewables.
We're testing the consciousness, uh,of our culture here and whether or not
people are good at complaining aboutclimate change are, are they gonna
open up their wallets and invest?
Helen Phillips (07:47):
For governments
to listen, they have to be
told by the people that we need
change.
It seems a little bit insufficientto just keep doing this work
because it's really like monitoringthe patient until he or she dies.
It's not actually intervening tofix the problem and maybe save
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the life, and we don't think thatthe future of our children is as
important as, as our right now.
The world that they will live in is vastlydifferent from the one that we've enjoyed.
Catherine (08:20):
It's about global food
security on a planet where climate
change is affecting food supplies.
Niall Robinson (08:27):
Actually, this is
no longer about individual action.
Andrew Bracken (08:29):
Kenyan farmers
have planted maize corn, but
with climate change, the rains
are, are less predictable.
Matt Palmer (08:36):
It's no longer really
a conversation about whether this is
happening, whether it's human caused;it's human caused, it's happening.
So the question now iswhat are the solutions?
How do we minimize our exposure to climaterisk, which includes trying to coordinate
to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Nathan Bindoff (08:55):
It's all very
well to have the science, but the
science doesn't make any progressuntil actually society accepts it.
And acts on it.
Mike Silvestrini (09:06):
The hard part about
conservation is you have to be successful
for eternity for it to matter at all; itonly really matters if it works forever.
Josh Willis (09:17):
Climate Elvis.
I started taking improv classes,and I did this because I wanted to
be better at communicating aboutclimate change and global warming.
I play Elvis and I sing an Elvissong that I wrote the lyrics for.
Uh, sort of a, a tributeto a jailhouse rock.
It's called the Climate Rock.
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Oh, that's a climate you've got.
Maybe you take a bunch of weatherand you average it together,
and you do the climate rock.
Oh yeah.
thank you very much
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So try to change your perspective inorder to understand the reality of others.
Of course I thank my guests, Josh WillisOceanographer, NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory Principal InvestigatorOcean's Melting greenland, episode 144.
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Dr. Matt Palmer, physical oceanographermet Office Hadley Center, United Kingdom
lead author on the planet's most recentintergovernmental panel on Climate
Change, episode 178, Niall Robinson
climate scientist research and developmentalgorithms, data and mathematics.
Met Office, Hadley Center, UnitedKingdom, and recently the developer
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Relationship Manager for Weatherand Climate with N-V-I-D-I-A.
Episode 1 78, Dr. Helen Phillips, physicalOceanographer Scientist Institute for
Marine and Antarctic Studies at theUniversity of Tasmania, episode 80.
Terry Lilley, Marinebiologist and filmmaker.
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Episodes 154, 156, 160, 161, 164.
Mike Silvestrini Big LifeFoundation, Energea Solar Company.
Episodes 1 57 and 1 58.
Kurt Polzin Physical Oceanographer,
Woods Hole OceanographicInstitution, episode 29.
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. Nathan Bindoff Physical Oceanographer,oceans Ice and Climate Studies,
university of Tasmania, Institutefor Marine and Antarctic Studies,
episodes 73 1 76 and 191.
Andrew Bracken, collaborator andpartnership with Small Farmers globally.
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Episodes 50 and 88.
Ray Schtidt Physical Oceanographer,woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution, episode 41,
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