SCIENTISTS AND JOURNALISTS
WHAT'S IT LIKE WHEN YOU'RE EXPOSED TO TOO MUCH CLIMATE CHANGE AND NOT ENOUGH ACTION?
October 5th 2020.
Production: Vivien Langford.
Podcast : Andy Britt
Guests
Dr Joelle Gergis - Climate Scientist at ANU, Canberra. Author of Sunburnt Country and Witnesing the Unthinkable
Prof. Johan Rockstrom - Earth Systems scientist at the Potscdam Institute for Climate Impact research, Berlin
Nigel Topping - UK High level Climate Action Champion, London
Marian Wilkinson - Esteemed journalist and author of The Carbon Club in conversation with Prof Bob Carr at the Institute for Sustainable futures, UTS Sydney
Coral Wynter - Journalist , scientist and camp[aigner against Narrabri Gas project
Music Ode to Mother Earth by Aunty Ruby recorded at a BZE event by Dominique Hes
What is it like when your day job is "witnessing the unthinkable?"
Joelle Gergis reads her article about the nightmare she has as a result of being exposed to the most horrifying tipping points in global heating. The Great Barrier Reef and its much attacked climate scientists comes to mind.Thanks to Mark Spencer at CLIMACTIC podcasts for his recording. Joelle's time as an IPCC author is so valuable I didn't want to bother her for an interview.
Johan Rockstrom is an expert on Tipping Points.
He says "we can no longer exclude crossing irreversible tipping points" at the "We don't have time" global broadcast out of Sweden.
He is energised by the Exponential Roadmap initiative, by serious commitments in the EU, China and potentially the USA(2021) as trillions are spent on an exponential leap in ambition and a low emissions COVID recovery.
Nigel Topping sees that we are already headed for ewxponential change as co alitions of businesses accelerate a zero carbon economy.
Marian Wilkinson, during her time as a foreign correspondent in Washington amassed a pile of interviews with climate sceptics and others who she now calls The Carbon Club. She realised that they had to foster doubt around the climate science "to remove the moral imperative to act on climate change". She reveals how the carbon club mentored Australians who wanted to protect our carbon intensive economy from "so called climate alarmists", even though "these included the overwhelming majority of climate scientists"
Coral Wynter briefly reports on the anguish of citizens who have been trying to protect the Great Artesian Basin water and productive farmlands of Northern NSW from a new gas project at Narrabri. It was breaking news as it had just received the green light from the "Independent" Planning Authority, despite over 90% of submissions from thousands of scientists, First Nations people and farmers who opposed this climate wrecking project.
LINKS
JOHAN ROCKSTROM
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/johan-rockstrom.jpg/12704150
JOELLE GERGIS
https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2020/july/1593525600/jo-lle-gergis/witnessing-unthinkable#mtr
MARIAN WILKINSON
https://uts4climate.uts.edu.au/marian-wilkinson/
NARRABRI GAS PROJECT
WE DON'T HAVE TIME GLOBAL BROADCAST
https://www.wedonthavetime.org/events/exponential-climate-action-summit-202009
This includes talks by Christiana Figueres https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW42PZN157A&t=1330s
Bertrand Piccard- Adventurer / Solar Impulse plane https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW42PZN157A&t=10421s
Climate Action Collective
