Climate Endgame

Dr. Peter Carter, Paul Beckwith and Regina Valdez discuss a new PNAS perspective paper called ‘Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios’, which was published on August 1st, 2022.

This video was recorded on August 10th, 2022, and published on August 14th, 2022.

Some of the topics discussed:

• How the paper represents a breakthrough from the point of view of providing a peer reviewed perspective on the catastrophic risks of the climate emergency.
• The importance of knowing what could happen so that if it does happen, we can choose to be better prepared.
• The four main questions that are brought forth in the paper.
• The things the paper mentions that the IPCC tends to avoid.
• How the paper states there’s ample evidence that climate change could become catastrophic.
• How the paper, from the point of view of the climate activist community does not really state anything new.
• The discussion highlights the fact we are already experiencing many of the conditions the paper mentions.
• and more. . .

Links:

• Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios (PNAS)

• HotHouse Earth: Here’s what the science actually does and doesn’t say

• Losing Marine Stratocumulus Clouds Could Create a Mega-Hothouse Climate

• Possible climate transitions from breakup of stratocumulus decks under greenhouse warming

• The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

• Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency

• IPCC SR1.5: Chapter 3: Impacts of 1.5ºC global warming on natural and human systems

• Fat-tailed distribution

• IPCC AR6 WG1 SPM (pdf)

Regular 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.

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Background Music:

• Title: Through the City II
• Author: Crowander
• Source: crowander.com

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