Climate Chat: Wake Up Call! What Now? with Leon Simons

In this Climate Chat episode, we will discuss the U.S. election and the potential impact it will have on climate action -- both good and bad -- and the actions we can take. Climate scientist Leon Simons will take us through recent climate change data including ocean warming data that shows a fundamental change in the past two years. Climate change is based on physics and it doesn't care about politics, but climate change will have an increasing impact on politics -- and all of us -- in this decade and beyond.

Leon Simons is a climate scientist based in the Netherlands. He was a co-author with James Hansen on last year's "Global Warming in the Pipeline" paper that discussed the recent acceleration in global warming. Leon's work has focused recently on changes in aerosol emissions from ships and the impact of those changes on climate change. You can access Leon's research writings here:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Leon-Simons

James Hansen's May 2024 update: "Comments on Global Warming Acceleration, Sulfur Emissions, Observations"
https://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2024/MayEmail.2024.05.16.pdf

Landmark "Global Warming in the Pipeline" paper by James Hansen, Leon Simons, and others:
https://academic.oup.com/oocc/article/3/1/kgad008/7335889

Climate Chat interview with James Hansen:
https://youtube.com/live/8Ag3UVSrlhE

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Climate Change: Choosing to Fail, with Climate Scientist Kevin Anderson
https://youtu.be/tVFSJINGueM

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