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Temperature Check: Science, Texas, and Climate Chaos

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Climate One

Social Sciences, Science, News, News Commentary, Earth Sciences

4.7585 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Just two months into 2021, deadly winter temperatures left millions of Texans without water and power. Meanwhile, California is preparing for another year of intense drought, and Wall Street millionaires are moving their remote work to Florida, ground zero for flooding and sea-level rise. “We think about the Earth as a system,” says Marshall Shepherd, director of Atmospheric Sciences Program at the University of Georgia, “so we can't understand climate change unless we understand changes in the Arctic, or in the ocean circulations, or in the biosphere, and so forth.” “Hope or waiting and seeing is no longer a valid risk mitigation strategy." Guests: Katharine Mach, Associate Professor, Marine Ecosystems and Society, University of Miami Marshall Shepherd, Director, Atmospheric Sciences, University of Georgia For complete show notes, visit our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:05.6

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0:12.8

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0:23.0

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0:31.7

Is climate chaos due to a failure of policy, a lack of attention to science, or a combination of both.

0:38.6

Climate One conversations feature all aspects of the climate emergency, the individual and the

0:43.5

systemic, the exciting and the scary, people who are in power and disempowered.

0:48.7

I'm Greg Dalton.

0:50.7

After months of dealing with a volatile political climate, it's easy to overlook the actual climate and how it's impacting our daily lives.

0:58.2

A deep freeze is hitting large parts of America from North Dakota to Texas, forcing energy suppliers to institute rolling blackouts.

1:07.0

That's in an attempt to prevent the collapse of power grid networks.

1:12.1

While Texas recovers from an unusual polar vortex, California is preparing for another year of

1:17.1

intense drought, and Wall Street financiers are moving their remote work to Florida, which is

1:21.9

ground zero for flooding and sea level rise.

1:24.8

Places like South Florida are up there with so many major human settlements right on the

1:31.5

water's edge where these questions of how will we get from where we are right now to a world

1:36.2

that is resilient and safe with that amount of climate change.

1:40.8

Catherine Mock is Associate Professor of Marine Ecosystems and Society at the University of Miami

1:45.8

and an expert explainer about the connection between extreme weather and global warming.

1:50.7

We'll hear from her later in today's show.

1:53.0

First, about that brutal cold.

1:55.6

We had a compound event because we had extreme cold.

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