Hot Cities, Methane Leakers and the Catholic Church

Climate One

Social Sciences, Science, News, News Commentary, Earth Sciences

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🗓️ 21 May 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Mapping has emerged as a powerful tool for helping humans combat climate disruption. Technology for measuring the totality of global carbon emissions, for example, is highly refined: we know that half of all the carbon pollution humans have dumped into the sky has happened in just the last three decades. But understanding the specific sources of those emissions at the scale of factories or communities has been more elusive. Riley Duren, CEO of Carbon Mapper, has said, “you can’t manage what you can’t measure.” Carbon Mapper, a public-private partnership that includes universities and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab and is backed by philanthropists, uses satellites to pinpoint super emitters of both CO2 and methane in real time with the goal of reducing emissions. But this isn’t the only technology that may point the way toward a better understanding of climate threats and potential solutions. The Catholic Church, for example, holds vast tracts of land across the globe. But until Molly Burhans came on the scene, the Vatican had no real understanding of what they own. Burhans founded her nonprofit mapping organization Goodlands to provide the Church with the tools to use their landholdings to address issues ranging from erosion and biodiversity loss to climate migration. On the local level, Ariane Middel’s research uses a human-sized mobile weather station to look at variations in actual heat on the ground, chronicling how small differences in landscape and urban design can add up to major differences in heat impacts experienced by those who live and work in various built environments. Guests: Molly Burhans, Founder / Executive Director, GoodLands Riley Duren, CEO, Carbon Mapper Ariane Middel, Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.1	emergency? There is still an opportunity to bend the curve on emissions and avoid, you know, the worst-case scenarios, but that window is rapidly closing.
0:45.3	The Catholic Church is one of the largest landholders in the world. One effort is mapping their lands to work toward climate solutions.
0:52.3	The last thing you want is another cool tech platform that doesn't get anything done,
0:56.3	but rather helps people who already are committed and intelligent to even get more
1:01.8	information that will help them continue to make better decisions.
1:05.5	And what are the benefits of mapping heat on a very local level?
1:08.7	It's really important to not just look at a city and say,
1:11.2	okay, so this is going to be the temperature in 30 years from now,
1:14.1	but you have to really know neighborhood by neighborhood,
1:17.0	what's going on so that you can help the neighborhoods that are most in need.
1:21.2	What's the value of maps and data when it comes to combating our climate crisis?
1:25.7	Climate One's empowering conversations explore all aspects of the
1:29.0	climate emergency. I'm Greg Dalton. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently
1:36.7	released an updated set of so-called climate normals, averages it compiles every decade, and to no one's
1:43.0	surprise, they showed our world has gotten warmer.
1:46.0	In 2017, it got so hot in Phoenix that airplanes literally could not take off, and airlines canceled dozens of flights.
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