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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.
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Challenging Climate
17. Tom Matthews on tropical glaciers and extreme heat
Dr Tom Matthews is a climate scientist at King’s College London, specialising in glacier-climate interactions and extreme weather. In Episode 17, we discuss Tom’s exciting fieldwork on Mt. Everest co-installing the highest-altitude weather stations in the world, as well as extreme heat and its impacts on society.
Links:
- Tom Matthews’ profile
- Two articles on Tom’s expedition to Mt Everest: this and that
- Wikipedia page on penitentes
- Check out this article on the upper temperature limit of human tolerance and Tom’s paper documenting the first occurrences of this temperature
- Check out these 3 articles on extreme heat in Asia: this and that and this other one
- The book discussed: The Ministry for the Future
