Thinking Climate Change (Podcast)
department or school: Arts, Faculty of
department or school: Non UBC
department or school: Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies, Department of
data provider: DSpace
creator: Bowers, Katherine
creator: Rae, James
creator: Davies, Althea
creator: O'Rourke, Stephanie
creator: Burke, Andrea
creator: Bradley, Bridget
issued: 2024-06-28T21:36:33Z
issued: 2024
description: Thinking Climate Change is a series of interviews with researchers at the University of St Andrews (Scotland) that considers the ways their work addresses questions related to climate change and the climate crisis. Guests include Dr James Rae (Earth Science), Dr Althea Davies (Paleoecology), Dr Stephanie O’Rourke (Art History), Dr Andrea Burke (Geochemistry and Paleoclimatology), and Dr Bridget Bradley (Social Anthropology). Each episode focuses on one researcher’s work. The podcast explores approaches to understanding climate change from a variety of disciplines. This project was supported by a 2023 British Academy Visiting Fellowship.
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note: Thinking Climate Change podcast - Episode 1 - TranscriptKatherine BowersThinking Climate Change is a podcast that features interviews with researchers whose work presents interdisciplinary approaches to thinking about climate change. I’m Dr Katherine Bowers, an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia. In 2023, I was a British Academy Visiting Fellow at the University of St Andrews.Dr. James Rae is an earth scientist and Reader at the University Of St Andrews. His research investigates Earth's past climate history using geochemical measurements on archives including sediments, fossils and ice cores.So thank you so much for joining me today. Could you please tell us a little about your current research project?James RaeYeah, for sure. So my research looks at the history of Earth's climate to try and understand better where we're headed in the future. There's a couple of big flavors to this. One is, I look at the ice ages. These are times that are quite recently in Earth's history--that is recently for a geologist, right? A mere thousand years ago, there was a kilometer of ice on top of where I'm currently sat here in St Andrews, and a very different climate, lower CO2, an altered ocean circulation state, changes in biotas. It was the last time that climate was really really different. And so by looking at those altered climate states we can try and better understand how our climate system operates.And then the other flavor of my research, again looking at different climates in the past, but rather than the cold climates of the ice age looking at the warmer climates of the more distant geological past, and there our key aim is to find out an answer to what is I think a really fundamental question which is, CO2 today is at 423 parts per million in the atmosphere. It's the key driver of modern climate change. What did our planet look like the last time that it had 423 ppms in the atmosphere? And so to do that we are making long-term reconstructions of a…
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is shown at: 10.14288/1.0444043
language: eng
peer review status: Unreviewed
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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scholar level: Faculty
type: Text
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identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/88539