Climate Cast Minnesota Public Radio
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MPR News meteorologist Paul Huttner with the latest research on our changing climate.
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CNN chief climate correspondent on finding hope in a world of climate change
“I’m sorry we broke the sea and sky and shortened the wings of the nightingale. I’m sorry that the Great Barrier Reef is no longer great, that we value Amazon much more than the Amazon.”
Those are the words of CNN’s chief climate correspondent Bill Weir from his new book called “Life as We Know It (Can Be).” He wrote it as a letter to his 4-year-old son River to read in the future.
It’s a future where he hopes we’ve fixed our broken climate.
Bill Weir, who began his career in Austin, shared more about the book on this week’s Climate Cast. -
As hurricanes get more powerful, some scientists suggest a new category six
Hurricanes are getting so strong that some scientists say we should add a Category 6 to the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale.
That’s out of a recent study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences looking at the link between stronger hurricanes and climate change.
Senior Climate Reporter Andrew Freedman wrote about it for Axios. -
Climate denialism mapped to geography and political affiliation
A recent study shows nearly 15 percent of Americans “do not believe in climate change.”
So, what drives climate denialism in the U.S.?
Joshua Newell is a professor and co-director of the Center for Sustainable Systems. He was one of the authors of this research and broke down his findings. -
Red and blue pitches for electric vehicles?
Electric vehicle dealers right here in Minnesota are using different strategies to convince prospective buyers from different political affiliations.
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New study shows climate change is already affecting food prices
A new paper shows increasing global average temperatures and more intense and frequent heat waves are already driving up the prices of food and other goods.
To talk more about climate change and inflation is the lead author of that research, Maximilian Kotz with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany. -
Record-breaking ocean temperatures
Earth’s oceans have been reaching record-warm temperatures. Every day for the last 12 months.
What is happening? How much is climate change driving the temperature spike? And how concerned are climate scientists?
University of St. Thomas Professor John Abraham, one of the world’s leading ocean temperature researchers, talks about it.
Customer Reviews
Climate matters
Plus: your broadcast, points to the effects of CC locally with great effect. Negative: your broadcast, fails miserably at pointing fingers at the causes of CC. My quote: “fossil fuels are our destruction”! Neutral: people want/need hope. I grew up knowing our world would end in nuclear winter. Now I “believe” our end is a CO2 summer. I was wrong the first time; let’s keep our fingers crossed! I recommend a podcast called “Drilled”. Because!
Great podcast
Thanks for the variety of content
My Favorite Climate Podcast
Excellent topics. Impactful, but brief. Always interesting guests who leave an imprint and reinforce what I’m doing to reduce CO2. Thanks for all that you do!