From Hurricane Katrina to COP26: How to be a stubborn optimist in the face of the climate crisis
Next Question with Katie Couric
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4.4 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Over the past two weeks, world leaders and delegates from nearly every country have gathered in Glasgow, Scotland, for COP26. This annual summit on climate change will attempt to update the 2015 Paris agreement with accelerated action, higher targets and more ambitious cuts to carbon emissions -- our “last and best chance” at fighting climate change. In this episode of Next Question with Katie Couric, Katie looks back at the big weather events she has reported on and talks to her friend and weather forecaster Dave Price about how coverage of and interest in climate change has shifted over the years. We also hear from two experts on the front lines of the climate crisis, Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac, co-founders of Global Optimism and co-hosts of the Outrage + Optimism podcast. Christiana and Tom were both integral in getting the seminal 2015 Paris agreement to an agreement and they share what’s at stake if we can’t curb emissions as well as practical actions we can all make right now.
For more information on climate science, the climate crisis and what you can do, check out “The Future We Choose: The Stubborn Optimist’s Guide to the Climate Crisis,” by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac, and listen to their podcast, Outrage + Optimism. Tri-staters, you can catch Dave Price at 11am and 4pm on your local NBC channel.
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| 1:12.9 | As many of you know, 2021 has already been a brutal year for extreme weather events. |
| 1:19.6 | We began tonight with devastating weather in Tennessee. |
| 1:22.6 | More than 20 people are dead. |
| 1:24.8 | Dozens are missing after extreme flooding this week. |
| 1:28.0 | Wildfires devastating the West Coast and other parts of the country from California to New Mexico and Alaska and Minnesota. |
| 1:35.1 | Tonight, the South is frozen solid. |
| 1:37.6 | States struggling to recover from punishing sub-zero temperatures. |
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