25. Patrick Brown on extreme weather and the obvious climate strategy

Dr Patrick Brown is the Co-director of the Climate & Energy group at the Breakthrough Institute and Adjunct lecturer in Energy Policy & Climate at Johns Hopkins University. In this episode, we discuss Patrick’s expertise on the economic impacts of extreme weather, and unpack trends and attributable risk. We then venture into a broader scope based on his essay, ‘The obvious climate strategy nobody will talk about’, which carries the rest of the discussion into climate targets and bias in climate communication. 

Links: 

• Patrick Brown’s profile 
• Patrick’s essay in Foreign Policy: The obvious climate strategy nobody will talk about 
• His paper in PLOS, 'Approximate calculations of the net economic impact of global warming mitigation targets...' 
• Another article on heat deaths versus cold deaths 

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