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Climate One

C1 Revue: Climate Fantasy & Denial

Climate One

Climate One

Social Sciences, News, News Commentary, Earth Sciences, Science

4.7583 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2015

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Today we look at fact and fiction in our approach to the climate challenge. A handful of scientists want to tinker with the sky in a process called geo-engineering. Others call this arrogance. Most Americans simply aren’t talking about climate change at all. Why not? Meanwhile, Hollywood has taken notice. It’s rolling out movies depicting a climate catastrophe. Science fiction thrillers describe people resorting to eating bugs after the climate apocalypse. Is truth stranger than fiction? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.7

hey podcast listeners this is greg dalton you're listening to our new c1 review a podcast connecting

0:36.1

highlights from three shows.

0:39.1

Thanks for joining our conversation.

0:45.7

This is Climate One, a conversation about powering America's future.

0:51.6

Today, our host, Greg Dalton, is looking into a version of the future being created on the silver screen and in sci-fi fiction. People read dystopias and they think, well, at least it isn't that bad now,

0:58.0

or they think at least they're not in a boring suburban life like mine.

1:02.0

So there's a lot of complicated things going on with reading stories.

1:05.0

In the real world, some scientists are thinking up responses to climate disruption

1:10.0

that are wilder than any fiction fantasy.

1:13.6

There's just no silver bullet here.

1:15.8

These technologies are not going to work if we keep emitting.

1:19.3

The only thing that we can think about is this might take the edge off for a while

1:23.3

while we finish this energy transition that we have to make.

1:31.2

Music while we finish this energy transition that we have to make. Up next on Climate 1.

1:53.0

Climate 1. Climate One is changing the conversation about America's energy, economy, and environment. I'm Claire Shone.

1:55.0

These Climate One conversations, hosted by Greg Dalton, were recorded at the Commonwealth Club of California, a nonprofit and nonpartisan

2:02.7

public forum in San Francisco.

2:04.6

Today we look at fact and fiction in our approach to the climate challenge.

2:20.7

A handful of scientists want to tinker with the sky in a process called geoengineering.

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