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Challenging Climate
Asking tough questions about the science, technology, and politics of climate change, two climate researchers challenge leading experts on one of the defining issues of our age. Every two weeks, they explore how we can fight global warming by cutting greenhouse gas emissions, carbon removal, adaptation and solar geoengineering. Dr. Jesse Reynolds and Dr. Pete Irvine consider the roles of computer models and persuasive narratives, economics and public policy, and renewable energy and national security in the climate debate, and look beyond to issues such as biotechnology and international development.
Questions or comments? Email info@challengingclimate.org or tweet @ChalClimate
See more information on Jesse Reynolds and Pete Irvine.
music by Peter Danilchuk @clambgramb (IG/Twitter).
Challenging Climate
16. Hannah Ritchie on Our World in Data and some of the world's biggest problems
Dr Hannah Ritchie is a Senior Researcher at the Oxford Martin Programme in Global Development and the Head of Research at Our World in Data. In this episode, we spoke with Hannah about her work at Our World in Data and her article, "Stop Telling Kids They’ll Die From Climate Change". We discuss her thoughts on what some of the world's most pressing problems are, touching on topics such as agriculture, the link between meat consumption and poverty, education and more.
Links:
- Hannah Ritchie’s profile
- Hannah's article, "Stop Telling Kids They’ll Die From Climate Change"
- The world’s biggest problem: Agriculture (check out the data here)
- Here’s an article on meat consumption and climate change by Hannah
- And another one
- Dollar Street Gapminder
Definitely check out these Our World In Data articles as well:
- Decoupling of GDP and carbon emissions
- Carbon dioxide Data Explorer
- Economic growth in low- and middle-income countries
- Global improvements in quality of education
