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This Moment in Climate with Michael Mann & Leah Stokes

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4.7585 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

With a new pro-science, pro-climate action administration in the White House, there are more pathways — and far greater political will — than ever before for the clean energy transition. The question is now less about what can be done to act on climate, and more about how soon.  “We have the best opportunity in more than a decade now to see federal climate action through legislation,” says Leah Stokes from UC Santa Barbara. So how quickly can a new administration turn around a gutted EPA, myriad environmental law rollbacks, and a legacy of climate denial from fossil fuel companies? Guests: Michael Mann, Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science, Penn State University Leah Stokes, Assistant Professor of Political Science, UC Santa Barbara Related Links: Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet Short Circuiting Policy: Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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exclusions apply. How quickly can the Biden administration turn around a gutted EPA,

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dozens of environmental law rollbacks, and a legacy of

0:39.2

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

0:45.3

and the systemic, the exciting and the scary, people in power and people disempowered. I'm Greg Dalton.

0:59.0

One week after his inauguration, President Joe Biden signed a series of executive orders taking on climate change. In my view, we've already waited too long to deal

1:04.1

with this climate crisis. We can't wait any longer. We're so close to really finally turning

1:10.7

the corner on climate, but the forces of inaction,

1:13.5

and I call them the inactivists, haven't given up.

1:16.6

Michael Mann is Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State University.

1:21.3

He's best known for creating the hockey stick chart, which vividly illustrates the sharp

1:25.5

increase in carbon pollution in the 20th century

1:27.9

due to industrial activities. His latest book is The New Climate War, the fight to take back

1:33.5

our planet. We have got to keep our eye on the prize here, and that is federal action in the

1:39.0

United States, ideally this year in 2021. Leah Stokes is assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Santa

1:46.8

Barbara.

1:47.6

She's co-host of the podcast, A Matter of Degrees, an author of the book, Short-Circuiting Policy,

1:53.0

interest groups in the battle over clean energy and climate policy in the American states.

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