BONUS: IPCC Report: The Tipping Point for Action with Michael E. Mann
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
Persephonica
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
We’re back in your ears for a quick bonus episode on the latest IPCC Report.
The heavily anticipated and undeniably influential release of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report’s Working Group 1 findings came out on Monday. In it, they provide an extraordinarily thorough examination into and warning of the physical science basis of climate change.
Christiana and the guys give their gut reactions to the report, and discuss how its findings are the turning point for necessary climate action at COP26. And joining us for this bonus episode to walk us through the release of this report is Distinguished Professor and Director of the Earth System Science Centre at Penn State University, Michael E. Mann, who has previously contributed as a lead author of the IPCC third cycle assessments.
This is the moment, there’s no going back. Thanks for listening.
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Mentioned links from the episode:
Read: The Full WG1 AR6 IPCC Report (Caution: It’s like 1000+ pages)
Much Easier Read: The Headlines from The WG1 AR6 IPCC Report (2 pages)
Watch: Check out the IPCC’s YouTube Channel
Play: The IPCC Interactive Atlas
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Thank you to our guest this week, Michael E. Mann!
Michael E. Mann
Distinguished Professor and Director of the Earth System Science Center | Penn State University
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Outrage and Optimism, I'm Tom Rificanak. |
| 0:15.9 | I'm Cristiana Fighettas and I'm Paul Dickinson. |
| 0:18.6 | Today we bring you a special bonus during our month off to talk about the IPCC report |
| 0:24.4 | that has so starkly laid out the reality of climate change that we're facing. |
| 0:28.4 | And we speak to Professor Michael Mann, distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State |
| 0:33.6 | and one of the world's preeminent climate scientists. |
| 0:37.4 | Thanks for being here. |
| 0:46.4 | So we have taken a short break today from our holidays because this report is just cannot be ignored. |
| 0:52.4 | And we'll bring Michael on in a minute, this is going to be a shorter episode just to bring you |
| 0:56.4 | the details of what's really happened. |
| 0:58.4 | Will either of you like to kick off giving us a short reaction? |
| 1:01.4 | I know Cristiana in particular, you've been in the media a lot today talking about this report. |
| 1:05.4 | Give us your top line assessment of this stunning piece of work from the IPCC setting out more clearly than ever the reality that we're facing. |
| 1:14.4 | You know, for me, Tom, if I'm going to summarize the report, my gut summarises the report by saying timeframes shortening. |
| 1:26.4 | Timeframes shortening. |
| 1:28.4 | We have less time than we thought to do everything that we know we have to do. |
| 1:33.4 | So the fact that this report clarifies that the 1.5 degree maximum temperature ceiling, let's call it, |
| 1:43.4 | that we can afford to reach without major catastrophes on this planet is already sometime in the decade of the 30s. |
| 1:52.4 | It's actually quite frightening, quite frightening. |
| 1:55.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:56.4 | And only points even more vehemently toward the need to half our emissions by 2030. |
| 2:04.4 | There is now no doubt that that deadline is on top of us. |
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