Episode #1777
Andrew Dessler
Books mentioned
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Andrew Dessler, a climate scientist and professor at Texas A&M University who served in the Clinton White House, discusses the evidence that human-caused greenhouse gas emissions are driving global warming. The episode examines fossil-fuel impacts, climate risks, decarbonization, lower-carbon technologies, agricultural adaptation, and the economics and politics of transitioning energy systems.
What they talked about
- Climate science vs. contrarian arguments
- Historical parallels to tobacco and ozone debates
- Human-caused warming and fingerprint evidence
- Renewable energy grid integration and dispatchable power
- Texas winter storm failure of natural gas system
- Economic models and social cost of carbon
- Political obstacles to climate action
- Permafrost melting and ocean acidification impacts
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