John Gibbons

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873 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 10 Sep

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What it does is it bounces back colossal amounts of energy, of uh heat energy back into space.

If the sea ice melts in the in the Arctic and you get a what they call a blue ocean event in the summer, you're going to

jumpstart global warming by more than a decade.

So these are the type of trip wires.

Now let's just say for a moment, to to stay with your listener, let's say that we fail on this and we slide on to two degrees.

Two degrees unfortunately then in turn begets three degrees.

Now various analysts have looked at what happens in a world of three degrees.

Now I don't want to be alarmist Matt uh perish the thought but a world of three degrees centigrade uh average surface uh temperature rise

is a world in which approximately four billion people will die.

So that's roughly half of today's world population will not be able to survive in a world of three degrees centigrade.

And you might ask, well, you know, how can something so cataclysmic happen?

The main reason is in that three-degree world, global food systems collapse.

And we have mass starvation and mass death.

Now, the last time we've seen something on this scale was, of course, the Black Death back in the 12th to 13th century.

That's the type of scale of event that we're hurtling towards.

And I personally find it really difficult to be in a country where our politicians have effectively given up on tackling global warming.

Here we are, a rich, prosperous, highly polluting country, Matt, and we have thrown in the towel.

It's an absolute outrage.

And those politicians who who who've given up on climate change should should address their constituents and their constituents.

constituents children and say, Look, we knew this is coming.

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