Making sense of “compound” climate impacts in a time of global weirding
Zero: The Climate Race
Bloomberg
4.7 • 219 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
We are living through the hottest year on record. That’s not news, but growing climate impacts make bigger and bigger news. At 1.3C of warming beyond pre-industrial levels, people are reckoning with a planetary system that’s out of whack. It’s not like the scientists didn’t see worsening impacts coming, but many of them have been surprised by the ferocity with which some have played out. On this week’s episode of Zero, Bloomberg Green’s Akshat Rathi speaks with his colleague Eric Roston, and Texas Tech University professor Katharine Hayhoe explains why we’re all experiencing “global weirding.”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Zero. I am Akshadrati. |
| 0:02.0 | This week, global warming or global weirding. |
| 0:07.0 | So here in London, it's been raining for what feels like months, which is maybe what you |
| 0:22.9 | think London should be like, but let me tell you this is next level. England has had one |
| 0:29.5 | of the wettest years since people started keeping track of such things back in 1836. And all around |
| 0:36.6 | the world, the weather has been anomalous and disruptive. |
| 0:40.3 | We are, after all, living through the hottest year there has ever been on record. |
| 0:46.3 | There's been flooding in Dubai, hail in Texas, extreme heat in India. |
| 0:52.3 | In Delhi, where my in-laws live, it's been 44 degrees Celsius, 111 Fahrenheit |
| 0:57.4 | this week. I'm sure you can point to some examples of crazy weather where you live. As the summer |
| 1:04.3 | gets underway in the northern hemisphere, all of us at Blooming Green are bracing for new extreme weather events. |
| 1:12.2 | My colleague Eric Rosten has covered climate change for more than two decades, and he's |
| 1:16.5 | had many, many conversations with climate scientists about the unprecedented times we live in. |
| 1:23.5 | Today we're going to bring you a conversation he recently had with Catherine Hayho, |
| 1:28.4 | a climate scientist at Texas Tech University. |
| 1:31.5 | She focuses on assessing the regional impacts of climate change on people and the environment. |
| 1:37.3 | We'll hear Eric's conversation with her in a moment, |
| 1:40.0 | but first, I wanted to catch up with him to find out how he is thinking about this moment. |
| 1:55.6 | Welcome, Eric. |
| 1:56.6 | Hi, thanks for having me. |
| 1:58.6 | Now, you've been writing about climate change for a long time. |
| 2:02.3 | How do you convey to somebody now the true weight of all that is happening in the hottest |
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