The Moral Sentiments of a Climate Scientist | Dr. David Karoly, PhD

Professor Karoly was leader of the Earth Systems and Climate Change Hub in the Australian Government’s National Environmental Science Program, based in CSIRO, during 2018 to June 2021. During 2012-2017, he was a member of the Climate Change Authority, which provides advice to the Australian government on responding to climate change, including targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. He was involved in the Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2001, 2007, 2014 and 2021 in several different roles and was a part of the revered group of IPCC authors who shared the Nobel Peace prize with Al Gore in 2007. He was awarded the 2015 Royal Society of Victoria Medal for Scientific Excellence in Earth Sciences and elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2019.  

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David Karoly: https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/67077-david-karoly

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Timestamps

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0:00 - Teaser

1:54 - Intro to David Karoly 

12:01 - The Moral Sentiments of a Climate Scientist 

22:54 - What is the current state of the climate 

30:32 - How has David coped with conducting research and consistently encountering distressing evidence for 40+ years? 

38:47 - Climate Change & Social Justice 

46:10 - Climate change as Class War 

51:23  - How do you manage to take time for yourself in the face of the Sisyphean task of fighting against climate inaction? 

57-52 - “Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone”. -J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye.  If you could, what would you stick under a big glass case? 

1:00:52 - What can people do to help fight climate injustice?  

Credits 

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Music: A Journey Through The Universe – Lesion X