The Climate Doomer Episode
Angry Planet
Matthew Gault
4.3 • 882 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
We’re taking another look at the climate here at Angry Planet. This week we’re joined by Peter Kalmus of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Talking to a scientist about how hot the planet is getting can be jarring. Kalmus, like other experts in the field, brings a sense of doom to the subject that fits perfectly in the Angry Planet cannon.
Kalmus talks about dining with oil executives and shares his thoughts on How to Blow Up a Pipeline. We cover a lot of ground in this episode and we’re happy to have our listeners along for the ride. Next week we’ll try to get back to something more traditionally depressing like Ramzan Kadyrov or Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Check out Peter’s research here.
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| 0:00.0 | Love this podcast. |
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| 0:12.0 | We are here today to talk about either global warming or climate change, depending on your mood. |
| 0:20.0 | And joining us... |
| 0:22.0 | We have a theme this summer, I think. |
| 0:24.0 | I want to say the theme thing. |
| 0:26.0 | You know, I tend to call a global heating and then the trolls on Twitter are like, |
| 0:32.0 | well, it's like, which one is it? |
| 0:34.6 | And well, so actually, the person speaking, I think it's important to note, |
| 0:39.5 | is Peter Kamis, who was joining us to talk this through. |
| 0:44.3 | Could you tell everybody who you are |
| 0:46.4 | and what your background is? |
| 0:47.8 | Sure, yeah. |
| 0:49.1 | So I'm Peter Kalmus. |
| 0:51.1 | I am a climate scientist and I currently work at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. |
| 0:57.2 | I'm totally speaking on my own behalf here and I'm also a climate activist and that's still unfortunately in my opinion sort of a rare combination to be both a scientist and an activist. |
| 1:11.2 | But when, you know, there's a lot I don't understand about the science I have my little niche things and we can get into that a little bit but |
| 1:18.9 | When I see the science just broadly speaking I personally find it really scary and I care a lot about this |
| 1:27.5 | planet and I care a lot about my kids and I care about my own future too. So I can't, I feel like I don't have any choice |
| 1:36.2 | but to also be an activist and to do everything I can |
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