Nature Climate Change

And the systems, even our political systems, tend to operate on the people who have a lot of money are the fossil fuel people.

And so our political system has a certain amount of inertia and it's been hard to get I published Nature Climate Change, and Nature rates all their publications by how many people read them and how much publicity they get.

And so they rated our paper as the 99.6 percentile in public impact globally.

In other words, it was published all over the world.

This came from the BBC and WMO.

And number three, a study published in Nature Climate Change found that climate change has already reduced the ecological suitability for European bumblebees by an average of 5%, reaching up to 19% in some areas, with losses accelerating sharply since 1980s as warnings sped up.

No pollinators, no food system.

This came from Nature Climate Change, the journal and the University Libre de Brussels.

I don't know why I put Brussels.

Brussels.

And the majority of those are in the West, are in the EU, the UK, Canada, United States.

A new study published in Nature Climate Change finds that the world's wealthiest 10% are responsible for two-thirds of observed global warming since 1990 and the resulting increases in climate extremes such as heat waves and droughts.

Let's

see.

The last thing to mention in this connection is that wildfires are a driver of extinctions.

There's a study in Nature Climate Change from April earlier this year which concluded that the future intensification of wildfires will put about 9,500 non-marine species which are already identified as threatened by increased biofrequency under greater stress.

So the big picture is that the rate of wildfire change and its tendency to compound existing stresses and its tendency to produce biotic homogenization are a major threat to biodiversity.

A little bit later, we're going to talk about why it is that you think that a sort of apocalyptic framing is not the right way in which to view the current situation.

That makes sense.

And, you know, you write about this in your recent piece in Nature Climate Change.

And one of the things that you do in that article that I really appreciated was you sort of walked us through the research on this topic and how it's evolved over the last, I So some of the early studies that you talk about that look at the effects of personal experience with extreme weather and attitudes on climate are really nicely explained in the article.

So can you just walk us through, like, what did some of those early studies find?