Climate Conversation

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2015

⏱️ 54 minutes

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The Paris climate talks are scheduled to go ahead despite the terrorist attacks, and attendees hope to sign an international agreement on climate change. A BBC reporter covering the meetings tells us what we can expect from the conference. Also, it’s unclear whether Pope Francis himself will travel to the City of Light, but his encyclical may have already influenced the talks there. A historian considers whether the Church’s acceptance of climate change represents a departure from its historical positions on science. Galileo, anyone? Plus, Hollywood may have stretched the science facts to maximum effect in its cli-sci thriller, The Day After Tomorrow, but find out why the film may not be pure fiction. And why the developing world may take most of the hit as the planet warms. Guests: Sybren Druifhout – Physical oceanographer and climate scientist, Netherlands Meteorological Institute and the University of Southampton, U.K. Virginia Burkett – Associate Director for Climate and Land Use Change at the United States Geological Survey, and one of the Nobel Prize winning authors of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s fourth assessment report John Durant – Director of the MIT Museum and teacher in the MIT Science, Technology and Society program Matt McGrath - Environment correspondent for the BBC, based in London Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:56.4	or lowercase. That's Shopify dot co-deekk slash special offer. For two weeks in late November and early December, Paris will host the United Nations Climate
1:16.8	Change Conference. Obviously security is heightened in the city of light following the
1:21.3	terrorist attacks and public rallies planned around the climate
1:24.6	conference have been banned as a precautionary measure.
1:27.5	But the talks will continue.
1:29.3	Global leaders have one goal that, on the one hand, is quite simple simple but on the other is frustratingly complex.
1:35.6	Achieve Agreement on how to address climate change.
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