Brian Lear on W.N.C. Now our climate story of the week which we're continuing every

Tuesday on the show in 2024 after all this year will determine who will be

setting the national climate agenda if any

for the next four years and with today's news did you see this that last year was

officially the hottest on record and planet Earth keep setting that record year after year during the 21st century

if you haven't noticed that makes this election year even more critical.

My guest today is a professor who studies direct action and resistance movements and who's

stepping closer to advocating for them as we face this choice. Dana Fisher is the

director of the Center for Environment, Community, and Equity, and a professor

in the School of International Service at American University, and the author of the

soon-to-be published book, Saving Ourselves from Climate Shocks to Climate Action, Professor Fisher, welcome to

WNYC.

Thank you so much for having me, Brian.

Do you want to reflect for just a moment to start out on this breaking news today that last year was the hottest on record and put that in some context?

Absolutely. So, this week we are expecting a number of different Earth observatories to release their

assessments of the data coming from 2023 with regard to climate change and global warming basically the

average temperature over the past years which they do all of this analysis to

determine it it ends up that depending on which of the two data

sources that have so far been released, Earth was 1.4 plus degrees

Celsius warmer than on average, which puts us very close to the 1.5 degree threshold that both

the Intergovernmental Panel and Climate Change and the Paris Agreement identified as the

threshold we wanted to stay below in order to limit the climate

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