Episode 16: "The Truth Hurts, But the Anthropocene Might Kill You"

Sam is back for another episode of Coffee with Comrades to discuss the Anthropocene with Pearson. But first, some news:

Kavanaugh was confirmed. Let’s organize to smash the patriarchy. The fascist presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro won 48% of the vote in Brazil, which has implications for politics all across the globe. Amazon’s wage-theft continues. Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040. Only 100 companies are to blame for 71% of emissions.

The Anthropocene is our current climate epoch, one marked by a measurable influence from humankind. Most of us know that climate change is bad--really bad. But the science is absolutely damning. As our planet is rocked by one catastrophe after another, Sam unpacks the science behind anthropogenic climate change. Together, Sam and Pearson take a sobering look at the consequences of global warming. Below are a number of sources Sam compiled for folks who are interested in fact-checking or just finding out more about this dilemma.

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Intro: “I Ain’t Got No Home in this World” by Woody Guthrie

Outro: “Don’t Let the World Rot” by Northlane

Extinction, biodiversity collapse

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/07/05/1704949114.full http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/5/e1400253?ijkey=75be8629689d630dc6b8492a3f51b89d0a73276e&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha http://www.pnas.org/content/112/25/7761?ijkey=3631ac556f47977df2a85ab80c0c4b620860569e&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha http://www.pnas.org/content/105/Supplement_1/11466?ijkey=c34cee1e03df1bef68884e5901ef8d46fad741be&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cobi.12380 http://www.pnas.org/content/115/25/6506 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11538-015-0126-0 https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate2722 https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.marine.010908.163855 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/348/6231/229 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/321/5891/926

Oceans, ice

http://www.pnas.org/content/114/23/5946 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0501-8

Heat

http://web.science.unsw.edu.au/~stevensherwood/wetbulb.html https://ksi.uconn.edu/prevention/wet-bulb-globe-temperature-monitoring/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-018-0146-0 http://www.pnas.org/content/107/21/9552 ; http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aaa00e

Food

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature16467 http://www.pnas.org/content/114/35/9326 ] https://knowledge.unccd.int/glo#the-bokk ] https://elifesciences.org/articles/02245 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13179 https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EHP41

Weather

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2012GL053002 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2018EF000825