"If we keep emitting green house gases, we keep warming the planet. If we reduce our emissions by 50% next year, that't not going to happen, but hypothetically if we did, we would still be warming the planet. We need to go right down to net zero to stop warming the planet."
Today’s conversation is with climate researcher Dr Andrew King. Andrew is a senior lecturer in Climate Science at the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes at the University of Melbourne. Dr King’s work has been cited hundreds of times and his research has also been published in top journals like nature. As you can imagine we’ll be talking about Climate Change today, the future of society, transitioning to a green economy, staying under 1.5 degrees, are climate scientists vego, and about the media and news industry and their role in all of this.
Video version: https://youtu.be/IWVMafr-RO0
The key topics in today's episode:
06:00 - Can we predict floods
07:00 - What climate tech we need
13:00 - Is it normal to have 4 seasons in a day?
15:00 - What net zero looks like
19:00 - Life beyond net zero
23:00 - Jobs in a greener future
26:30 - What countries are the most carbon neutral
39:00 - Climate science and the media
47:00 - Climate anxiety as a scientist
50:30 - Are climate scientists vegetarian
56:30 - Atmospheric Rivers
01:06:00 - Common climate misconceptions
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Connect with Dr King:
Website | https://andrewdking.weebly.com/
Twitter | https://twitter.com/AndrewKingClim?
Email | andrew.king@student.unsw.edu.au
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