Extreme Weather Events

Join Dr. Peter Carter, Paul Beckwith and Regina Valdez as they discuss the challenges we face as a result of the increasing frequency, severity, and duration of Extreme Weather Events, abbreviated EWEs.

This video was recorded on April 16th, 2021, and was first published on this channel on July 14th, 2021.

Items discussed include the following:

• Given the land and oceans continue to warm, EWEs will increase in frequency, severity, and duration.
• The toll EWEs are placing on our infrastructure and food supply.
• Both Hurricane Harvey and Katrina are discussed.
• The inevitable need for people to migrate inland from coastal cities as a result of Sea Level Rise (SLR) and EWEs.
• The reasons for the increase in EWEs is discussed.
• The EWEs we are seeing today can no longer be considered ‘natural.’
• The fact that according to the UN, EWEs have doubled in frequency over the last 20 years
• The fact that we can no longer count on the relatively stable climate of greater than 50 years ago, ‘The Holocene’, and that we have moved to a new age, ‘The Anthropocene’, where the climate will be much less stable
• The need for more aggressive activist movements to spur government action such as Extinction Rebellion.
• The impact of EWEs on crop yields

Articles, Papers, Links from Blue Slides:

• Global Trends 2040 from the National Intelligence Council
• ‘Staggering’ rise in climate emergencies in last 20 years, new disaster research shows
• Tropical nations aren’t ready for fish stocks to vanish
• Floodlines, The story of an unnatural disaster
• Extreme weather hits western farmers harder, UBC study finds
• Global energy investments set to recover in 2021 but remain far from a net zero pathway
• Global migration, by the numbers: who migrates, where they go and why

Panelists:

• Dr. Peter Carter - MD, Expert IPCC Reviewer and the director of the Climate Emergency Institute

• Paul Beckwith - Climate Systems Scientist. Professor at the University of Ottawa’s Paleoclimatology Laboratory as well as at Carleton University

• Regina Valdez - Program Director, Climate Reality Project, NYC. GreenFaith Fellow and LEED Green Associate

Video Production:

• Charles Gregoire – Climate Reality Leader, Electrical Engineer, Webmaster and IT prime for FacingFuture.Earth and the Climate Emergency Forum

• Heidi Brault - Climate Reality Leader, BA(Psychology), Library & Information Technician Diploma - Video production and website assistant - Organizer and convener, Metadata technician, COP26 Team Lead for FacingFuture.Earth and the Climate Emergency Forum.

Attributions:

Background Music:

• Title: Through the City II
• Author: Crowander
• Source: Free Music Archive
• License: BY-NC 4.0

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