Let’s get smart about the 1.5 degree global warming limit
Make Me Smart
Marketplace
4.6 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
In June, global temperatures had surpassed 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels for 12 months straight, encroaching on the goal set in the Paris climate accord. We’ll explain why scientists use 1.5 degrees as a key benchmark and why it’s important to have hard conversations about climate change. Then, we’ll get into an investigation revealing how insurers profited from false diagnoses of Medicare patients. And, a billion-dollar donation to a medical school and new developments in textile recycling make us smile.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “In a troubling milestone, Earth surpasses 1.5 degrees C of warming for 12 consecutive months” from LA Times
- “June 2024 marks 12th month of global temperature reaching 1.5°C above pre-industrial” from Copernicus
- “Burning Questions: What’s the deal with 1.5 degrees?” from Marketplace
- “‘We’re Not Dead Yet.’ Baby Boomers’ Good Times Drive the Economy.” from The Wall Street Journal
- “Insurers Pocketed $50 Billion From Medicare for Diseases No Doctor Treated” from The Wall Street Journal
- “How the Journal Analyzed Medicare Advantage Data” from The Wall Street Journal
- “Why scientists think they may finally have found a way to recycle clothes” from The Washington Post
- “Johns Hopkins to offer free medical school tuition from $1 billion Bloomberg Philanthropies grant” from The Baltimore Banner
- “$1 Billion Donation Will Provide Free Tuition at a Bronx Medical School” from The New York Times
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| 0:37.0 | It is Monday, July 8th. |
| 0:39.0 | And today we're going to do some news. |
| 0:41.0 | We're going to get to some smiles, |
| 0:42.9 | starting, of course, with the news. |
| 0:45.1 | Amy, what caught your attention over the holiday weekend? |
| 0:49.6 | Well, we're going to need some smiles |
| 0:52.2 | because this one is not super happy, but we will get there when we get there. |
| 0:57.0 | New data from the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service shows that global warming has reached an alarming level. |
| 1:06.0 | June 2024 was not only the hottest June on record, but was also the 12th month in a row in which global average temperatures |
| 1:15.2 | were at least 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than pre-industrial times. |
| 1:20.4 | That's 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit. And of course that number is significant |
| 1:25.6 | because it's the threshold that global leaders agreed to try not to cross as |
| 1:31.2 | part of the Paris Climate Agreement. You know in that agreement in 2015 |
| 1:36.4 | leaders of almost 200 countries pledge to limit warming to no more than 2 degrees |
| 1:41.0 | Celsius and quote pursue efforts to limit warming to one and a |
| 1:45.6 | half degrees. I've been doing some reporting on where that came from what it |
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