“I’m usually requested if I really feel eager for the longer term,” says Lesley Hughes, local weather scientist and former Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) creator.
“For me, hope is a method, moderately than an emotion. Because if we don’t have hope and optimism, then all of us hand over, and if all of us hand over, then we’re actually misplaced.”
In this dwell bonus episode of Fear & Wonder, The Conversation’s local weather podcast, recorded on May 1, host Michael Green spoke with Hughes, alongside present IPCC authors Mark Howden and Frank Jotzo.
All three visitors have been on the forefront of local weather science in Australia for many years. They hint how local weather science went from a comparatively peripheral subject to one in every of central significance to scientists and governments all over the world.
They mirror on their respective journeys, the important thing takeaways from the IPCC’s most up-to-date Synthesis Report, and the upcoming challenges and alternatives for Australia and the world.
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Fear and Wonder is sponsored by the Climate Council, an impartial, evidence-based organisation engaged on local weather science, impacts and options.
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