Episode 12 – C22 of COP21

In this Episode Grant flies solo and spends time talking to Explorer and Environmentalist Tim Jarvis AM while his co-host Eamon spends time getting over a cold. (Best wishes for fast healing Eamon) With a Masters in environmental science and environmental law and only last year being announced as WWF-Australia Global Ambassador, Tim is amply qualified to explore the topic … Continue reading Episode 12 – C22 of COP21

In this Episode Grant flies solo and spends time talking to Explorer and Environmentalist Tim Jarvis AM while his co-host Eamon spends time getting over a cold. (Best wishes for fast healing Eamon)

With a Masters in environmental science and environmental law and only last year being announced as WWF-Australia Global Ambassador, Tim is amply qualified to explore the topic of climate change, which in our option is one of the world’s most vexing Catch 22s.

Be sure to donate to the cause at the Indigogo Page >>

Tim Jarvis AM, @TimJarvisAM, www.timjarvis.org 

Hosts

Eamon Pielow, @EamonPielow, LinkedIn
Grant Hull, @gbuffer, LinkedIn

Concepts and Themes

Cognative Dissonance of day to day life and climate change
The Arctic and how to ward of polar bears
No Dogs in the South Pole
Retracing Douglas Mawson’s Journey to the South Pole
Weight loss across the journey
Ernest Shackleton’s expeditions
Exploring Antarctica today even with technology, the possibility of death is very real.
Recreating Shackleton’s infamous two week, 1,500km journey from elephant Island to South Georgia
Eating Pemmican – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pemmican
Leadership qualities of Shackleton, never losing sight of the WHAT but modifying the HOW to suit the circumstances.
25Zero expedition and how Tim’s Shackleton’s journey helped Tim consider the extended question of humanity’s own survival
Glaciers are considerably affected by climate change, very noticeable on equatorial mountains
Climbing 3 mountains while COP21 is on
21 years of climate talks and still no legally binding agreement for reduction in carbon emission
Presidents like Obama and François Hollande might like to leave a legacy
INDC Intended Nationally Determined Contributions
Catch 22 at the individual level: Climate change to the average person feels too complicated to warrant even trying
Hard to believe that an individual can have an effect
Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Keep it in the Ground Guardian Newspaper
We cannot burn what we have in reserves, yet oil and gas companies are still looking for more
Using your superannuation as a lever to discourage the fossil fuel industry
Need a staged withdrawal from fossil fuel and those who are most capable of withdrawing should!
Challenges of Software development – using the same strategies to accomplishing an expedition to successfully negotiate a software project
The Martian Movie is a Shackleton Story
Exploring Mars as a new frontier
There is nothing like first hand experience to learning things about our world

Links

http://25zero.com – Current Expedition
Indigogo Page to Donate
Tim Jarvis on Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Jarvis
Tim’s Shackleton Expedition – http://shackletonepic.com
Tim on Vimeo – https://vimeo.com/channels/timjarvisam
COP21 – www.cop21paris.org
Keep it in the Ground Guardian Newspaper

Books, Podcasts and Online Things

BOOKS:

I Come From The Stone Age – Heinrich Harrer www.amazon.com/Come-From-The-Stone-Age/dp/B000J65NTS (to understand the climb)

 MOVIES:

The Martian – www.imdb.com/title/tt3659388
Sherper – www.imdb.com/title/tt3746250

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