Have We Crossed the Climate Tipping Point?

Science Vs

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Science, Education, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 19 September 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Headlines are screaming that the world is about to reach a climate tipping point, which feels like a point of no return where the climate is screwed and there's nothing we can do. But it turns out, that's wrong. These visions of a climate apocalypse don't align with the science. So what exactly is going on with our climate? What even is a tipping point? And are we really about to lose control of the climate? Comedian Michael Hing joins us for a journey with climate scientists Dr. Ed Dodderidge, Dr. Seaver Wang, and Dr. Sarah Das, as well as Dr. Felicity McCormack, who's at the Australian Research Council Special Research Initiative Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future at Monash University. Find our transcript here: https://bit.ly/ScienceVsClimateTippingPoint In this episode, we cover: (00:00) Fire in the hole (06:14) What is a tipping point? (11:04) Is Planet Earth "tipping"? (17:00) How do we know when the ice sheets tip? (25:04) When will the ice sheets tip? (27:34) Have we lost control of the climate? (31:58) Why tipping points are the distracted boyfriend meme (35:30) The good news! Send us your questions about How to Solve the Climate Crisis!! Insta: @science_vs Tiktok: @wendyzukerman Send a voicemail or video to [email protected] Or! If you're in the U.S., you can call 774-481-1238 This episode was produced by Wendy Zukerman, with help from Meryl Horn Rose Rimler, Ekedi Fausther-Keeys, and Michelle Dang. We’re edited by Blythe Terrell. Fact checking by Diane Kelly. Mix and sound design by Sam Bair. Music written by Bobby Lord, Sparse Movement, Bumi Hidaka and So Wylie. Thanks to the researchers we spoke to, including Professor Andrew Dessler, Professor Christina Hulbe, Dr David Armstrong McKay, Professor Tim Lenton, Aditya Lolla, Dr Elizabeth Maroon, Dr Jan Nitzbon, Professor Johannes Quaas, Dr Jonathan Leung, Dr Kirsten Schell, Dr Madi Rosevear, Michelle Dvorak, Dr Robin Lamboll, Dr Zeke Hausfather, Dr Sam Krevor, Flowra Zhang and others. And extra thanks to the Zukerman Family and Joseph Lavelle Wilson. Science Vs is a Spotify Studios Original. Listen for free on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Follow us and tap the bell for episode notifications. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman, and you're listening to Science Versus.
0:04.0	Today on the show, did we just cross the tipping point?
0:10.0	When it comes to climate change, how screwed are we?
0:14.0	And to add a little comedy to this drama,
0:22.0	I've invited my mate Australian comic Michael Hing to the show
0:26.4	hi Michael hello Wendy when you say to bring some comedy to this is this a
0:30.8	hilarious topic or because I do feel like a lot of people
0:34.0	listening to this will just broadly be bummed out. Yes no I mean there are there are a
0:37.8	lot of reasons to be bummed out let's just quickly go through a couple of
0:41.8	them for one it has been Just quickly, go through a couple of them.
0:42.6	For one, it has been weirdly, some might say freakishly hot recently.
0:49.4	We've just been seeing like month after month of record-breaking heat and I know even for people like
0:55.1	mildly following climate stuff you'll be used to hearing record-breaking heat but
0:59.6	it's just seriously if you look at the graphs of this year and last year. is just
1:03.6	seriously if you look at the graphs of this year and last year
1:05.6	the temperature of the globe like the average global temperature
1:09.7	just jumped.
1:11.0	Yeah I have um
1:12.2	seen some news stories about that.
1:14.0	Yeah, and temperatures were actually supposed to have dropped, but August numbers just came in,
1:21.0	and it's still really hot.
1:22.0	Oh, yeah, there's no, a decade ago, you would occasionally get these like hopeful climate stories
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