EARTH: The Sunshade

Flash Forward

Flash Forward Presents

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

We're back! Did you miss me? Don't answer that please. Today's episode kicks off Season FIVE of Flash Forward. This year, I'm doing things a little bit differently. Instead of doing a new episode every other week, you're getting little mini-seasons. Each little block of five episodes will come out weekly, and center around a theme. This week we're starting our EARTH series. Five episodes, five different future Earths. Buckle up, I hope you're ready for some fun. And some terror. This is Flash Forward after all. Today we travel to a future where humanity decides to pull the climate emergency break, and spray sulphuric acid into the upper atmosphere. Guests Anthony Jones, climate model researcher at University of Exeter Jane Flegal, climate science and policy advisor, program officer at The Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust Kate Marvel, climate scientist at Columbia University and NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies Romaric Odoulami, climate scientist at the University of Cape Town Prakash Kashwan, political scientist at the University of Connecticut Actors The Snowglobe Narrator: Brent Rose Lenny Haywood: Evan Johnson Farah Mousterian: Zahra Noorbakhsh John Jacob Siwa: Joseph Jones Juana Aguilar: Tamara Krinsky Thor Surtr: Oliver Blank Special Thanks Women's Audio Mission studios, Maryam Qudus, Stephanie Lopez The Potluck Podcast Collective, The Potluck Podcast studio, Quincy Surasmith Flash Forward is produced by me, Rose Eveleth. The intro music is by Asura and the outtro music is by Hussalonia. The episode art is by Matt Lubchansky. Get in touch: Twitter // Facebook // Reddit // [email protected] Support the show: Patreon // Donorbox Thanks to PNAS for supporting Flash Forward. Listen to Science Sessions on iTunes today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and we are back.
0:03.0	We are,
0:05.0	Hello and...
0:07.0	Hello and welcome to Flash forward.
0:10.0	I'm Rose and I'm your host and we are back. Did you miss me? Don't answer that because even if you didn't I'm back. Happy 2019. If you are new to flash forward here's the deal.
0:22.5	Every episode we take on a specific possible
0:25.3	or not so possible future scenario.
0:28.3	We start each episode with a little fictional field trip
0:31.5	into the future to set the stage and check out what's going on.
0:35.7	And then we zip back to today to talk to real experts about how that future might actually
0:41.0	unfold.
0:42.0	Got it? Great. Thanks to PNAS Science
0:45.1	Sessions for supporting flash-forward. Today take five minutes to learn
0:48.8	something new about the physical, social, and natural worlds from the
0:52.3	frontiers of science.
0:53.8	Subscribe to science sessions on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your
0:59.2	podcasts.
1:00.2	A quick note on scheduling before we get into today's episode.
1:03.5	This year I'm trying something a little bit different with the way that flash forward unfolds.
1:08.5	So instead of a new future coming out every other week for 40 weeks, I'm working on a set of mini seasons each based on a theme.
1:16.2	So today's episode is the first of five episodes in our Earth mini season.
1:21.8	You'll get an episode a week for each of these mini seasons and
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