Climate, It Is A-Changin’

This week is part one of our two-part series on CLIMATE CHANGE. For part one, Sean and Nathan talk about what is causing climate change and how humans are involved in all of that. Part two (coming next Monday!) covers the different scenarios for what the world could look like in the year 2100, and what we can do to combat climate change! Stay tuned!

In the episode, Sean praises China for building a lot of renewable energy, but he didn't know how aggressively India has been expanding their renewable energy capacity (https://reut.rs/2SmotAv). Also, in the episode Sean and Nathan discuss electrification of rural areas, an important variable in the emissions-reduction equation. India has made big strides in electrifying rural areas in the past few years, and nearly all households now have electricity for part of the day. The challenge now is getting them electricity for more of the day, ~50% of rural households have electricity for about half the day. That's better than nothing! But it suggests the grid may be stressed when they need it most, like to help with cooling during heat waves (or to help avoid food spoilage, preservation of drugs/vaccines and stuff, etc).

This episode also features listener responses to episode 4 on acupuncture!

Podcasts are an audio format, but sometimes visual learning is way more convincing, so check out some beautiful graphics here: https://visme.co/blog/climate-change-facts/

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References:

This time around, pretty much everything was pulled from IPCC reports (they are super long and comprehensive, check them out!)

https://www.ipcc.ch/reports/

I recommend the more recent report on keeping things to 1.5 C (https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/), though for background info the AR5 report is nice (https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/syr/)