Is it too late to stop climate armageddon? The IPCC report explained
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🗓️ 16 August 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report has just been published - and it's been described as "code red" for humanity. What does it say, what does it mean, how bad a mess are we in - and is there any hope?
Climate expert Ketan Joshi joins us to break it all down - and explain what comes next.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is Owen Jones, welcome to the podcast. The existential threat of the climate emergency |
| 0:11.4 | has been dramatically underlined by the new IPCC report. That's the Intergovernmental |
| 0:17.4 | Panel on Climate Change published by the United Nations, which really shows the horrendous |
| 0:24.1 | situation, our species faces as a result of human-driven climate change. Now today we're joined |
| 0:31.6 | by Ketan Joshi, who is a brilliant expert and what he's going to do is unpack exactly what the |
| 0:36.8 | report means, how serious a situation we're in and what we do about it. Do supporters on patreon.com |
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| 1:06.2 | words of Ketan Joshi. Ketan, big honour of he's enjoying us. So the big IPCC report, the Intergovernmental |
| 1:19.1 | Panel on Climate Change has dropped and there's been a big build up to this report. It's a report |
| 1:25.3 | which sets out the scale of the crisis that humanity's currently in. Could you give a kind of summary |
| 1:31.3 | to begin with of what the report is telling us, what are the main for you, the big striking new |
| 1:38.4 | things that this report is really highlighting? Yeah, this report comes out, you know, once every, |
| 1:45.0 | I think it was five or six years, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has this reporting |
| 1:50.4 | cycle and it's quite long, you know, this is not like a sort of annual update, like state of the |
| 1:56.2 | climate type thing. And the reason this is so long is because there's just so much science |
| 2:01.2 | behind this. It's really wild. This is the sheer number of hours that have been put into this |
| 2:08.7 | report, you know, picking through it, there's just like reams and reams and reams of the latest |
| 2:16.8 | science in this. And of course, primarily it can, it confirms something that we already knew |
| 2:22.8 | with a relatively high amount of certainty, which is the connection between burning fossil fuels |
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