A Conversation with Michael Mann

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🗓️ 25 June 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Al talks to Michael Mann, Nobel Prize-winning climatologist for his work with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). We cover a lot of ground. How to talk about climate change to your crazy right-wing climate-denying uncle. “Uncle Hal, sea level is rising. For two reasons. Ice is melting. And water expands when it gets warmer.” If Uncle Hal insists sea level is rising because of all the rocks falling into the ocean, then just give up. We talk about how climate used to be a bipartisan issue, but since Citizens United, the Koch Brothers have threatened to primary any Republican who acknowledges the science. Addressing climate change has become a victim of our tribal politics. The answer right now? Win.

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0:30.0	I think if you ask most Americans, what is the existential crisis facing the world right
0:43.1	now?
0:44.2	I think most Americans would say global warming and part of that is using the words existential
0:51.5	and planet, right?
0:54.9	And you're not going to get student loan debt from existential and planet, but to a lot
1:02.5	of Americans, student loan debt may be a bigger issue than global warming in their immediate
1:10.3	lives.
1:11.9	With me in our studio in Washington, DC is Michael Mann.
1:17.1	Now, when you talk to people who know the world of climate science and you ask them, who
1:25.8	would be your first choice to be a guest on global warming?
1:30.4	Michael Mann is what they come up with.
1:34.2	He was one of the lead authors of the Observed Climate Variability and Change chapter of
1:43.1	the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is everyone talks about the IPCC.
1:49.8	There's third scientific assessment report.
1:52.7	And that's way back in 2001, he shared the Nobel Prize with other scientists on the IPCC
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