THE 101 CLIMATE QUESTION
If you do not have time for global warming,
the 101 climate question is just the answer
Frederic Hanusch & Christian Parenti answer the question
Can the Democracies of Today
Solve the Climate Crisis?
Frederic Hanusch did his Dr. phil. as part of the research group “Democracy and Climate Change” at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Essen (KWI). He worked from 2013-2016 at the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) and has since 2016 been a part of the project “Futurisation of Politics” at the IASS, the Institute for Advances Sustainability Studies at Potsdam. His research is focused on a combination of democracy research, global change research and the study of time. His most recent publication is Democracy and Climate Change (2017) published in the Routledge Global Cooperation Series.
Christian Parenti has a PhD in sociology (co-supervised in geography) from the London School of Economics and is a professor in the Global Liberal Studies Program at New York University. His latest book, Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence (2011), explores how climate change is already causing violence as it interacts with the legacies of economic neoliberalism and cold-war militarism. The book involved several years of travel and research in conflict zones of the Global South.
Christian’s current research focuses on the environmental history of state involvement in American economic development, from the earliest days of the republic onward. As a journalist, he has reported extensively from Afghanistan, Iraq, and various parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. His articles have appeared in Fortune, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Middle East Report, London Review of Books, Mother Jones, and The Nation (where he is a contributing editor). He has also helped make several documentaries and has won numerous journalistic awards, including the 2009 Lange-Tailor Prize and “Best Magazine Writing 2008” from the Society for Professional Journalists. He also received a 2009 Emmy nomination for the documentary Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi.
Frederic Hanusch & Christian Parenti answer the question
Can the Democracies of Today Survive
a Serious Climate Crisis?
Frederic Hanusch did his Dr. phil. as part of the research group “Democracy and Climate Change” at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Essen (KWI). He worked from 2013-2016 at the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) and has since 2016 been a part of the project “Futurisation of Politics” at the IASS, the Institute for Advances Sustainability Studies at Potsdam. His research is focused on a combination of democracy research, global change research and the study of time. His most recent publication is Democracy and Climate Change (2017) published in the Routledge Global Cooperation Series.
Christian Parenti has a PhD in sociology (co-supervised in geography) from the London School of Economics and is a professor in the Global Liberal Studies Program at New York University. His latest book, Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence (2011), explores how climate change is already causing violence as it interacts with the legacies of economic neoliberalism and cold-war militarism. The book involved several years of travel and research in conflict zones of the Global South.
Christian’s current research focuses on the environmental history of state involvement in American economic development, from the earliest days of the republic onward. As a journalist, he has reported extensively from Afghanistan, Iraq, and various parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. His articles have appeared in Fortune, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Middle East Report, London Review of Books, Mother Jones, and The Nation (where he is a contributing editor). He has also helped make several documentaries and has won numerous journalistic awards, including the 2009 Lange-Tailor Prize and “Best Magazine Writing 2008” from the Society for Professional Journalists. He also received a 2009 Emmy nomination for the documentary Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi.
Stefan Rahmstorf and Michael E. Mann talk
about tipping points and the science of climate change
What are Tipping Points?
Michael E. Mann is Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State University and director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center (ESSC). Stefan Rahmstorf obtained his PhD in oceanography at Victoria University of Wellington in 1990. He has worked as a scientist at the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute, at the Institute of Marine Science in Kiel and since 1996 at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. His work focuses on the role of the oceans in climate change.
Michael E. Mann and Stefan Rahmstorf answer the question
What is Climate Sensitivity and
why is it so important?
Michael E. Mann is Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State University and director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center (ESSC). Stefan Rahmstorf obtained his PhD in oceanography at Victoria University of Wellington in 1990. He has worked as a scientist at the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute, at the Institute of Marine Science in Kiel and since 1996 at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. His work focuses on the role of the oceans in climate change.
Stefan Rahmstorf and Michael E. Mann talk about denial and the science of climate change
How dead is denial?
Michael E. Mann is Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State University and director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center (ESSC). Stefan Rahmstorf obtained his PhD in oceanography at Victoria University of Wellington in 1990. He has worked as a scientist at the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute, at the Institute of Marine Science in Kiel and since 1996 at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. His work focuses on the role of the oceans in climate change.
Gavin Schmidt, Kevin Anderson, Erik Conway and Erick Fernandes tell us why we should worry about climate change
Why should we worry
about climate change
Gavin Schmidt is the Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies; Kevin Anderson is professor of energy and climate change at the University of Manchester, and deputy director of the Tyndall Centre; Erik Conway is, with Naomi Oreskes, the author of Merchants of Doubt (2010) and The Collapse of ‘Western’ Civilization (2014); and Erick Fernandes is Adviser on Agriculture, Forestry & Climate Change at the World Bank.
Gavin Schmidt, Kevin Anderson, Erik Conway and Erick Fernandes tell us what they say to someone who asks if the science is settled
What do you say to someone who says the science isn’t settled?
Gavin Schmidt is the Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies; Kevin Anderson is professor of energy and climate change at the University of Manchester, and deputy director of the Tyndall Centre; Erik Conway is, with Naomi Oreskes, the author of Merchants of Doubt (2010) and The Collapse of ‘Western’ Civilization (2014); and Erick Fernandes is Adviser on Agriculture, Forestry & Climate Change at the World Bank.
Gavin Schmidt, Kevin Anderson, Erik Conway and Erick Fernandes tell us what we can personally do about climate change
What can we personally do about climate change?
Gavin Schmidt is the Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies; Kevin Anderson is professor of energy and climate change at the University of Manchester, and deputy director of the Tyndall Centre; Erik Conway is, with Naomi Oreskes, the author of Merchants of Doubt (2010) and The Collapse of ‘Western’ Civilization (2014); and Erick Fernandes is Adviser on Agriculture, Forestry & Climate Change at the World Bank.
Gavin Schmidt, Kevin Anderson, Erik Conway and Erick Fernandes tell us what our government should do about climate change
What should our government do about climate change?
Gavin Schmidt is the Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies; Kevin Anderson is professor of energy and climate change at the University of Manchester, and deputy director of the Tyndall Centre; Erik Conway is, with Naomi Oreskes, the author of Merchants of Doubt (2010) and The Collapse of ‘Western’ Civilization (2014); and Erick Fernandes is Adviser on Agriculture, Forestry & Climate Change at the World Bank.
Gavin Schmidt, Kevin Anderson, Erik Conway and Erick Fernandes tell us what a four degree warmer world would mean to us
What would a four degree warmer world mean to us?
Gavin Schmidt is the Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies; Kevin Anderson is professor of energy and climate change at the University of Manchester, and deputy director of the Tyndall Centre; Erik Conway is, with Naomi Oreskes, the author of Merchants of Doubt (2010) and The Collapse of ‘Western’ Civilization (2014); and Erick Fernandes is Adviser on Agriculture, Forestry & Climate Change at the World Bank.