Climate News: 2050 targets are just too late - Graeme Pearman; How to talk about climate change - Dr Katherine Hayhoe; Billionaires are out of touch - Rebecca Solnit episode artwork

EPISODE · Nov 21, 2023 · 23 MIN

Climate News: 2050 targets are just too late - Graeme Pearman; How to talk about climate change - Dr Katherine Hayhoe; Billionaires are out of touch - Rebecca Solnit

from Climate Conversations · host Robert McLean

Listen as a retired Australian climate scientist, Graeme Pearman (pictured) , wonders about where he went wrong - "‘Where did I go wrong?’ The scientist who tried to raise the climate alarm"; "How to Talk About Climate Change at Thanksgiving Dinner"; "Billionaires are out of touch and much too powerful. The planet is in trouble"; "Richest 1% account for more carbon emissions than poorest 66%, report says"; "Uber driver switches to EV, saves money"; "The climate scientists who saw the crisis coming – Weight of the world podcast, part 1"; "The right is babbling about tax cuts while Britain burns. Pay no heed, Jeremy Hunt"; "C4C / ACF MNxNW Campaigns meeting"; "‘Climate Change Is Here’: Every Part of the U.S. Will Suffer Climate-Related Disasters, Report Finds"; "World facing ‘hellish’ 3C of climate heating, UN warns before Cop28"; "A fading coal town hitches its hopes to Bill Gates’s clean-energy dream"; "Concern for the Great Barrier Reef can inspire climate action - but the way we talk about it matters"; "Denial is over. Climate change is happening. But why do we still act like it’s not?"; "The World Solved Acid Rain. We Can Also Solve Climate Change"; "North East Forest Alliance laments Land and Environment Court loss, says koalas will suffer"; "Global one-day temperature spikes above 2C for first time: EU monitor"; "Frustration as latest talks on global plastic treaty close"; "WA climate activist to appeal against conviction for denying police access to mobile and laptop"; "On tides of climate change, adaptability buoys hope"; "‘People have mortgages for houses that don’t exist’: a year on from Eugowra’s flood"; "‘Enough is enough’: former Coalition environment minister joins push for a national ban on native forest logging"; "We can still prevent the collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet – if we act fast to keep future warming in check"; "How Can Cities Fight Climate Change and Still Stay Within Legal Guardrails?"; "In a U.S. First, a Commercial Plant Starts Pulling Carbon From the Air"; "World's richest 1% emit as much carbon as bottom two-thirds: report"; "How Electricity Is Changing Around the World"; "What Happens When You Put a Fossil Fuel Exec in Charge of Solving Climate Change"; "‘A Beautiful Place That Has a Dragon’: Where Hurricane Risk Meets Booming Growth"; "What Happens When the Super Rich Are This Selfish? (It Isn’t Pretty.)"; "Paddy the green turtle spends winter in South Australian waters, defying 'natural history books'"; "Firefly season begins in NSW as bioluminescent beetles take flight in mating display"; "Learning How Trees Can Help Unlock Secrets of Our Climate Future"; "In Massive Project, Scientists to Probe Deposits Beneath West Antarctic Ice Sheet"; "Fire is consuming more than ever of the world’s forests, threatening supplies of wood and paper"; "The Lego-like way to get CO2 out of the atmosphere".

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