This Year in Climate: 2022

Climate One

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🗓️ 23 December 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Russia’s February invasion of Ukraine sent shockwaves through global energy markets, destabilized international food security, and continues to keep the world wondering whether the war will accelerate the transition to clean energy or lead to renewed dependence on fossil fuels. Climate One hosts Greg Dalton and Ariana Brocious review the top climate stories of the year, from the war’s global impacts, to the passage and signing of the Inflation Reduction Act, to the recent international climate summit in Egypt. This special episode features excerpts from some of Climate One’s most profound interviews of 2022, including conversations with such luminaries as Jamie Raskin, Wanjira Mathai, and Anand Giridharadas. Guests: Roman Zinchenko, Co-founder, Greencubator Amy Myers Jaffe, Director of NYU’s Energy, Climate Justice and Sustainability Lab Gina McCarthy, Former White House Climate Advisor, Former EPA Administrator Jamie Raskin, U.S. Representative, Maryland’s 8th Congressional District Anand Giridharadas, Author, The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy Chloe Maxmin, Maine State Senator Wanjira Mathai, Vice President and Regional Director for Africa, World Resources Institute David Munene, Programs Manager, Catholic Youth Network for Environmental Sustainability in Africa Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson, Reporter, The Guardian; Host of An Impossible Choice podcast David Wallace-Wells, Columnist, New York Times Magazine; Author of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming Gavin McCormick, Co-founder, Climate TRACE For show notes and related links, visit www.climateone.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	At Warwick Business School, we don't just teach business, we put you at the centre of it.
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0:30.4	This is Climate One. I'm Greg Dalton. And this week, we're taking a look back at 2022 from a climate perspective.
0:38.5	Vladimir Putin is counting on the fact that people will refuse to get out of their cars.
0:45.2	And people will refuse to put their thermostat down one degree.
0:49.3	And if we can't take that on board, then he's going to be right.
0:53.5	And that's going to be a tragedy. And
0:55.7	it's a tragedy for the climate. From Russia's invasion of Ukraine to threats closer to home.
1:02.3	We have to save the democracy in order to save the climate and save our species. And we're
1:08.4	looking ahead at what the past year can tell us about the future.
1:12.8	I think that some of the worst case scenarios now seem, if not impossible, then considerably
1:17.0	less likely than they did.
1:18.6	This year in climate, up next on Climate One.
1:27.3	As 2022 comes to a close, producer Ariana Brocious and I are taking a look back at the past year, the highs and the lows.
1:35.3	And what a year it's been. This year's Atlantic hurricane season was one of the costliest on record.
1:40.7	Hurricane Ian alone caused an estimated $67 billion in damages and killed around 150
1:46.5	people. According to the New York Times, the total cost of hurricanes has gone up 11-fold
1:51.4	since the 1980s, and that's adjusted for inflation.
1:54.4	Yeah, and those are costs that affect all of us, even when it's not our own home that's
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