Revisited: Weight of the world, the climate scientists who hold out hope

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🗓️ 4 January 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Science Weekly revisits episode three of this 2023 mini-series from Full Story. In the final part of this three-part series, the Australian climate scientists Lesley Hughes, Ove Høegh-Guldberg and Graeme Pearman take stock as they look back on their life’s work. How does it feel for them to carry this burden of knowledge? Could they have done more? And what hope do they hold for the future?. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod

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0:41.3	Hi Ian here. Science Weekly is having a Christmas break. We'll be back next week,
0:47.0	but in the meantime we're featuring a mini-series from our Guardian Australia colleagues called
0:51.6	Weight of the World.
0:53.0	In today's final episode, the Australian scientists who saw the crisis coming
0:58.0	look back on their life's work, what it's meant to carry this burden,
1:02.0	and how they feel about the future. I hope you enjoy it.
1:07.0	Decades ago climate change scientists warned us about the future. That future is now.
1:14.0	The era of climate change is here,
1:18.0	it is terrifying, and it is just the beginning.
1:21.0	In our last episode,
1:23.0	Alpha Gullberg, Leslie Hughes and Graham Peaman
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