Fire and Water: A Year of Climate Conversations

Climate One

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🗓️ 7 December 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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From fires and floods to hurricanes and hot temperatures, 2018 put climate on the front page in ways it hadn’t been before. Yet amidst the disruption, clean energy prices continued to fall, climate-conscious technologies continued to progress, and people living on the front lines of climate change found ways to adapt and thrive. Join us for a look back on some of our most memorable conversations of 2018. Guests (in order of appearance): Lizzie Johnson Scott Stephens Francis Suarez Steve Benjamin Sylvester Turner Solomon Hsiang Katherine Mach Arlie Hochschild Eliza Griswold Debbie Dooley Christine Pelosi Christiana Figueres Roy Scranton Davida Herzl Gabriel Kra Lydia Dervisheva Mike Selden Patrick Brown Sanjay Dastoor Megan Rose Dickey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Climate One, changing the conversation about energy, the economy, and the environment.
0:07.0	In 2018, climate broke through the headlines with fire and water.
0:12.0	Over a thousand people unaccounted for in Northern California after a fast-moving wildfire to demolish the small town of paradise.
0:18.0	Mandatory evacuations along the Florida panhandle ahead of Hurricane Michael.
0:21.6	This is a fast mover.
0:22.6	It's also going to bring a lot of rain to the Carolinas, possibly, areas that are already
0:28.6	just completely soaked.
0:30.6	And conversations about how to adapt and thrive became more important than ever.
0:34.6	It's really hard to rebuild a normal life when your job is disrupted.
0:38.4	You don't have housing.
0:39.6	You're trying to rebuild, but the resources aren't there.
0:41.9	What we are needing now is funding to build a much more resilient city
0:46.0	because there will be another storm.
0:48.8	Climate change is real.
0:56.2	A year of climate conversations.
0:58.2	Up next on Climate One.
1:09.6	I'm Devin Strollovich.
1:13.3	Climate One conversations with oil companies and environmentalists,
1:18.5	Republicans and Democrats, are recorded before a live audience and hosted by Greg Dalton.
1:24.1	On today's special episode, we look back at the climate stories of 2018 by listening to excerpts from a year of climate conversations, beginning with the fires in the American West.
1:30.3	Higher temperatures and lower humidity brought on by climate change are whipping up hotter and bigger wildfires,
1:36.3	taking damage to property, people, and ecosystems to a new level.
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