Show Notes
The first episode on the impacts of climate change that introduces the feedback loop process and explains how climate change creates droughts and wildfires.
Timestamps
1:00 – Recap
1:57 – Why a 1°C increase matters
2:42 – Why we say climate change
4:44 - Droughts
5:54 – Feedback loops
6:26 – Droughts as a feedback loop
7:32 – The Cape Town drought
8:38 - Wildfires
10:17 – Arctic wildfires
11:06 – Arctic wildfires as a feedback loop
Questions
Does a 1°C increase matter?
Why do we usually call it climate change instead of global warming?
How do impacts of climate change interact with one another, what is this process called?
Links
Temperatures: Warming projections
https://climateactiontracker.org/global/temperatures/
Arctic fire fills the skies with soot. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145380/arctic-fires-fill-the-skies-with-soot
How feedback loops are making the climate crisis worse. https://climaterealityproject.org/blog/how-feedback-loops-are-making-climate-crisis-worse
Drought and climate change.
https://www.c2es.org/content/drought-and-climate-change/
Harsh winters under climate change
https://climatekids.nasa.gov/harsh-winter/
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