A New Climate Tipping Point

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🗓️ 19 October 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Last week, a long-awaited report showed that the worst consequences of global warming would occur even sooner than previously thought. Here’s the story behind the findings. Guests: Coral Davenport, who covers energy and the environment for The New York Times, and William D. Nordhaus, who was awarded a Nobel this year for his work on the economics of climate change. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:00.0	From The New York Times, I'm Michael Barbarra.
0:02.2	This is the name.
0:03.8	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:09.2	Today, last week, a long awaited report showed that the worst consequences of global warming
0:17.0	will occur even sooner than we thought.
0:20.2	The story behind that report.
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0:27.7	It's Friday, October 19th.
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0:35.6	[♪ Mr. Secretary General, Mr. Lefresse Don de la France, your excellencies.
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0:42.4	So back in 2015, when world leaders got together in Paris and forged the Paris Climate Agreement.
0:51.0	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:51.2	It's an enormous privilege to be here on Earth Day to join in signing this historic agreement.
0:57.6	What it says is every country on Earth, every government would pass policies and take actions
1:03.9	to lower emissions to stop climate change.
1:06.9	And there was a very specific target.
1:09.6	A mean temperature well below two degrees.
1:12.8	Two centigrade or even lower than that.
1:14.4	If we get to two degrees Celsius, Bangkok could be underwater.
1:17.9	Two degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, over pre-industrial levels.
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