The Big Climate Stories of 2018

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4.7 • 583 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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We’re making a list (and checking it twice) of 2018’s biggest climate stories, with the help of Vox reporter David Roberts. Roberts notes that while President Trump’s continued rollbacks of environmental protections made the news, the Green New Deal and ongoing decline in costs of clean energy technologies are the year’s big stories. For other parts of the country, wildfires and other extreme weather events made the biggest headlines. Greg Dalton talks to some of California’s leading wildfire experts about how to adapt to the “new abnormal” of more intense and more frequent wildfires. Guests (in order of appearance): David Roberts, Staff Writer, Vox J. Keith Gilles, Chair, California Board of Forestry and Fire Protection; Professor of Forest Economics, UC Berkeley Maggi Kelly Professor and Cooperative Extension Specialist in the Environmental Science, Policy and Management Department, UC Berkeley Thom Porter, Chief of Strategic Planning, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:42.2	Climate One conversations with oil companies and environmentalists,
0:45.9	Republicans and Democrats, are recorded at the Commonwealth Club of California
0:49.5	and hosted by Greg Dalton.
0:57.0	I'm Devin Strollovich.
0:59.0	The recent campfire in California's Butte County,
1:02.0	which killed 88 people and burned nearly 14,000 structures,
1:05.0	was the most destructive wildfire in the state's history.
1:08.0	Within two hours at the start of that fire,
1:10.0	there were a hundred spot fires starting
1:12.4	in downtown paradise.
1:15.1	Our firefighters spent all of their time that first 12-plus hours just keeping the people
1:20.8	from being overtaken by the fire.
1:23.4	Tom Porter is Chief of Strategic Planning at the California Department of Forestry and
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