Chico Harlan
speaker
273 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 19 Aug
Chico Harlan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 2 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 1.
Appearances
Yes.
And right now, the Arctic is that black T-shirt.
And that is causing these ripple effects.
What it adds up to is that Europe has been warming by about 0.5 Celsius, which is almost a degree Fahrenheit per decade.
That doesn't sound like a big number, but you spread that out and aggregate it over a couple decades, and all of a sudden you have a climate that feels different than even what you remember 20 years ago.
It is pretty straightforward, and that's especially true when heat lasts for a long time.
There's a big difference between a one-day spike and a spike that goes on for weeks.
And there are other factors at play too that are a little bit more in the background.
I mean, one is just depopulation of rural areas, more intensification of agriculture, but smaller plots of farmland that are being used.
And so more of Europe
is being overtaken by forest.
And that is definitely what happened in this part of southwestern France.
That area that's burning used to be swampland.
And in the 19th century, the government planted pine forests there.
And these monoculture forests, as they're called, often burn more easily than ones that are mixed.
This is the kind of decision that's not so consequential when France has the climate that it had historically.
But you combine that with what's changing because of climate change, and all of a sudden having pine forests becomes a huge liability.
That's right.
And I think the conclusion that you get from that and from so much else that you're seeing here is that Europe simply had built itself up in the natural world and in the physical world for an environment that no longer exists.
You just think about the cities alone and the consequences and problems that can come from thinking about how do we make the cities...
Showing 241–260 of 273 · page 13 of 14
← Previous
Next →