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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

276 | Gavin Schmidt on Measuring, Predicting, and Protecting Our Climate

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

Sean Carroll | Wondery

Society & Culture, Physics, Philosophy, Science, Ideas, Society

4.84.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

The Earth's climate keeps changing, largely due to the effects of human activity, and we haven't been doing enough to slow things down. Indeed, over the past year, global temperatures have been higher than ever, and higher than most climate models have predicted. Many of you have probably seen plots like this. Today's guest, Gavin Schmidt, has been a leader in measuring the variations in Earth's climate, modeling its likely future trajectory, and working to get the word out. We talk about the current state of the art, and what to expect for the future.

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Gavin Schmidt received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from University College London. He is currently Director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and an affiliate of the Center for Climate Systems Research at Columbia University. His research involves both measuring and modeling climate variability. Among his awards are the inaugural Climate Communications Prize of the American Geophysical Union. He is a cofounder of the RealClimate blog.


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Hello everyone, welcome to the Mindscape Podcast.

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I'm your host, Sean Carroll.

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And here at Mindscape, which I've been doing now for quite a while, you know, I constantly get suggestions or requests for guests to invite, for topics to cover,

1:27.6

and I love getting these by the way. Many of the episodes that we've done have been

1:31.6

arisen as suggestions from audience members.

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I get way more than I can possibly say yes to so if you make a suggestion and it doesn't get

1:39.7

followed up on, sorry don't feel bad about that. There's just a numbers game going on. But one topic that has gotten

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