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Bill Hare

Physicist and climate scientist; co-founder and CEO of Climate Analytics, IPCC AR4 lead author and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (as IPCC contributor).

Jun 16, 2026

speaker_0UNKNOWN
5:14
Meanwhile, what seems like wind, in fact, is just water running, far off and nearby, hard to place but difficult to ignore, an enormous, unceasing white noise, which is merely the sound of ice melting, all day, all night, everywhere.
5:32
So it, it is pretty tough going.
5:34
And the other thing that really worries me down here, particularly sitting in Western Australia, uh, where I grew up, um, is that we are seeing a really rapid onset of climate impacts.
5:45
I, I would say that outside of the high Arctic, the kind of changes happening here on the land and on the oceans offshore here are more rapid and more extensive than I know anywhere else in the world.
5:59
This really is a serious problem
speaker_0UNKNOWN
5:14
Meanwhile, what seems like wind, in fact, is just water running, far off and nearby, hard to place but difficult to ignore, an enormous, unceasing white noise, which is merely the sound of ice melting, all day, all night, everywhere.
5:32
So it, it is pretty tough going, and the other thing that really worries me down here, particularly sitting in Western Australia, uh, where I grew up, um, is that we're seeing a really rapid onset of climate impacts.
5:45
I, I would say that outside of the high Arctic, the kind of changes happening here on the land and on the oceans offshore here are more rapid and more extensive than I know anywhere else in the world.
5:59
This really is a serious problem
speaker_0UNKNOWN
5:14
Meanwhile, what seems like wind, in fact, is just water running, far off and nearby, hard to place but difficult to ignore, an enormous, unceasing white noise, which is merely the sound of ice melting, all day, all night, everywhere.
5:32
So it, it is pretty tough going, and the other thing that really worries me down here, particularly sitting in Western Australia, uh, where I grew up, um, is that we're seeing a really rapid onset of climate impacts.
5:45
I, I would say that outside of the high Arctic, the kind of changes happening here on the land and on the oceans offshore here are more rapid and more extensive than I know anywhere else in the world.
5:59
This really is a serious problem.
speaker_0SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
5:14
Meanwhile, what seems like wind, in fact, is just water running, far off and nearby, hard to place but difficult to ignore, an enormous, unceasing white noise, which is merely the sound of ice melting, all day, all night, everywhere.
5:32
So it, it is pretty tough going.
5:34
And the other thing that really worries me down here, particularly sitting in Western Australia, uh, where I grew up, um, is that we are seeing a really rapid onset of climate impacts.
5:45
I, I would say that outside of the high Arctic, the kind of changes happening here on the land and on the oceans offshore here are more rapid and more extensive than I know anywhere else in the world.
5:59
This really is a serious problem.

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