COP28 Host Had Plans to Promote Oil and Gas | Researchers Detected Cicada Emergence With Fiber-Optics

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🗓️ 1 December 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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The United Nations climate summit will happen for the next two weeks in Dubai—a city known for its oil money. And, in 2021, an electronics and communications lab accidentally detected the mass emergence of Brood X with fiber-optic sensors.

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0:00.0	Two years ago, researchers detected mysterious signals in a fiber optic cable.
0:07.0	We were trying to do some traffic related experiments in the testbed and then you have these other frequencies that should not be there.
0:15.1	Aliens?
0:16.1	NAP.
0:17.1	Insects.
0:18.1	It's Friday, the 1st of December and today is Science Friday.
0:28.0	I'm Cyfra producer Charles Berquist. Back in the summer of 2021, lots of folks in the eastern U.S.
0:32.0	We're hearing the sounds of the Brood X
0:34.1	Cicadas. But it turns out it wasn't just something that you could hear or see
0:37.9	flitting across the lawn or crunching against your car windshield. That
0:42.0	Caceda emergence was something that could be detected using
0:45.1	fiber optic cables. Iris spoke with one of the researchers involved to get the buzz on fiber optic
0:50.9	sensing. But first he talks with Tim Revel,
0:53.3	of new scientist for a look at some of the week's science stories.
0:56.8	The United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP28,
1:00.3	started this week in Dubai.
1:02.1	This is an annual event where the world comes together to discuss how to reach important milestones for the future of the planet.
1:09.0	Big things like climate change resiliency, slowing the Earth's rise in temperature.
1:15.3	But this week a document leaked that showed that the President of the United Nations Climate
1:19.8	Conference planned to lobby for oil and gas interests during this event, a position counter to the interests of the conference.
1:27.0	Joining me to talk about this and other science stories of the week is my guest Tim Revel, deputy US editor of New Scientists and host of the week is my guest Tim Revel, deputy US editor of New Scientist and host of the New
1:35.2	Scientist weekly podcast based in New York.
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