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4.7583 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2015

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

El Niño is waiting in the wings, and heat waves, sea level rise and drought are in the forecast as well. How prepared are we to weather the next big disaster? Nile Malloy, former Director, Communities for a Better Environment Patrick Otellini, Chief Resilience Officer, San Francisco Laura Tam, Sustainable Development Policy Director, SPUR This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Exploratorium with the Commonwealth Club of California on October 5, 2015. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:26.9

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0:35.1

How will we power our future? Can we create a healthy and clean economy?

0:40.3

Climate One at the Commonwealth Club is at the forefront of the global debate about energy,

0:45.3

economy, and the environment.

0:46.3

Bringing together the brightest and most provocative leaders of our time,

0:50.3

Climate One is the place where big ideas get heard.

0:53.3

With thoughtful and insightful discussions on policy,

0:56.3

business, science, and culture, Climate One founder Greg Dalton gets to the heart of the matter.

1:01.7

It's our future. It's time to come together.

1:07.0

Disaster officials in New York City knew for years that rising and warming oceans could create a storm surge that would slam Manhattan,

1:14.6

and they thought they had a couple of decades to prepare for scenarios fit for an apocalyptic B movie.

1:20.6

Then came Superstorm Sandy. In 2012, the Atlantic Ocean gushed into the New York subway, closed the New York Stock Exchange for days, fried the electric grid in much of the region, and caused $70 billion in damage. After the disaster, the cover of Bloomberg Business Week magazine proclaimed, it's global warming, stupid. I'm Greg Dalton, and today on Climate 1, we're talking about how climate

1:44.9

disruption could hit the Bay Area and what is being done to build communities that are prepared

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