Climatebase Fellowship - Week 2
Learnings
Climate History
- The history of climate change science mainly revolves around dead white men
- Eunice Foote mentioned again
- We don't have a photo of her
- If you do a search another woman shows up
- Still a middle class white privileged lady
- Did not realize the importance of her discovery
- Svante Arrhenius
- Distant relative of Greta Thunberg
- Did climate maths on the side
- He was actually worried about the world getting colder
- Thought burning coal would be a positive
- Guy Stewart Callendar noted a 0.3 degree temperature increase in his lifetime
- Roger Revelle ran the first funded, professional climate science project
- Wallace Smith Broecker published a paper in 1975 which popularized the phrase "global warming"
- We've been left with a mess, but we've been left with resources
- Often the debate is framed on science, but we also need to look at people
Global Politics
- Let's switch the view of Africa being a problem to a solution
- Africa has creativity, youth and growth to offer
- Doesn't make sense to make decisions without the people most affected in the room
- Global north is bound to the fate of the south
- Should biggest polluters pay reparations for crises in other countries?
- The story of the hummingbird and the forest fire
Climate
- CO2 is being released at the fastest rate in the last 66 million years
- Extremely hot days are around 150x more likely than they used to be
- The biggest greenhouse gas emissions are: carbon dioxide (76%), methane (16%), nitrous oxide (6%), hydrofluorocarbons (<2%), perfluorocarbons (<1%), sulphur hexafluoride (<1%), nitrogen triflouride (<1%)
- Drawdown is the point where greenhouse gas emissions start going down
- Main sectors where emission reduction is required are: electricity, energy, food, agriculture, land use, industry, transport & building
- There is already hundreds of billions private climate funding. But it's not enough, we need a lot more & huge public funding
- Transport is over funded right now in comparison to other sectors
- If people cared, they'd do more is a myth
- Climate change association with mental health is now well known
- Sometimes called ecological grief / anxiety
- Coral has annual spawning event when eggs are laid
- Closing the ozone layer was a very successful goal
- Carbon credits can be an excuse for not changing destructive behavior
- But its not possible for all companies to meet net 0. That's where offsetting can help
People
Speakers
- Taj Ahmad Eldridge - Managing Director - Climate Innovations @ Jobs for the Future
- Heidi Lindvall - General Partner and Investor @ Pale blue dot
- Kyle Treige - Cofounder & CEO @ Pioneer
- Ayisha Siddiqa - Climate Advisor to UN Secretary General
- Dr. RenΓ©e Lertzman - Climate Psychologist & Founder @ Project InsideOut
Fellows
Links
Misc
- http://gapminder.com/
- https://climate.nasa.gov/interactives/climate-time-machine/
- https://climatewaterproject.substack.com/
- https://jacobdarwinhamblin.com/
- https://methanedata.azurewebsites.net/plumemap?mars=true
- https://neighboursunited.org/campaign/deep-engagement/
- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hali-hewa-podcast/id1656226902
- https://projectinsideout.net/
- https://reasonstobecheerful.world/
- https://www.bosmanvanzaal.com/cases/vertical-farming
- https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/publication/global-landscape-of-climate-finance-2023/
- https://www.climatestoriesproject.org/
- https://www.climativity.com/
- https://www.cop28.com/en/about-cop28
- https://www.edf.org/launch
- https://www.futuregenerationstribunal.com/
- https://www.globalmethanepledge.org/#pledges
- https://www.lancetcountdown.org/2023-report/
- https://www.noaa.gov/weather
- https://www.nottoolateclimate.com/
- https://www.ourclimateourfuture.org/video/secret-talking-climate-change/
- https://www.tarabrach.com/
- https://www.ted.com/talks/renee_lertzman_how_to_turn_climate_anxiety_into_action
Articles
- https://heatmap.news/politics/the-climate-coalition-is-threatening-to-split-apart
- https://novaramedia.com/2024/01/14/we-are-in-the-post-climate-change-world-aaron-bastani-meets-gaia-vince/
- https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/7/can-pakistans-indus-river-dolphins-be-saved
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-15/why-having-a-baby-isn-t-really-bad-for-the-planet?sref=DJ6uFsR8
- https://www.carbonbrief.org/revealed-how-colonial-rule-radically-shifts-historical-responsibility-for-climate-change/
- https://www.climate.gov/news-features/features/happy-200th-birthday-eunice-foote-hidden-climate-science-pioneer
- https://www.climatedrift.com/p/a-guide-to-enteric-methane
- https://www.ctvc.co/dry-powder-for-climate-2023/
- https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/03/14/how-nimbys-increase-carbon-emissions
- https://www.gatesnotes.com/Visiting-Texas-to-see-the-future
- https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2023/11/green-groups-housing-crisis-ceqa-environmental-density-nimby/
- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/26/how-extreme-weather-is-shrinking-the-planet
- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/23/the-great-cash-for-carbon-hustle
- https://www.nps.gov/subjects/fire/indigenous-fire-practices-shape-our-land.htm
- https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/12/opinion/net-zero-global-warming.html
- https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/20/opinion/indigenous-peoples-biodiversity-climate.html
- https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/13/climate/climate-footprint-map-neighborhood.htm
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/13/playing-thriving-reef-sounds-underwater-speakers-save-damaged-corals
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_But_Differentiated_Responsibilities
Interesting companies
Climatebase Fellowship - Week 1
Learnings
Climate
- Climate change discovered all the way back in the 1850s, by an american woman - Eunice Foote
- Emission cuts should make up about 96% of the distance to net 0, and the bulk of the cuts are needed in the next decade
- Carbon removal isn't making a difference yet - all removal that has been done to date is equivalent to around 30 seconds worth of worldwide emissions
- The best climate solutions are:
- Evidence based
- Cheap
- Ready to go
- Targeted (geographically)
- Granular (IE. not huge projects that need too much funding and red tape)
- Nature doesn't have a design problem, people do
- In general people are aware that climate change exists and is a problem, but the messaging can be scary.
- Net 0 is about measuring how poorly we're doing, why not switch it to measure the good we are doing?
- When building products, don't just think of the now, think about what happens after
- Time to stop taking from the earth and instead reusing what we've already taken
Work & Projects
- Energy, transport, food and agriculture make up over 75% of current climate jobs
- Work should not be an obligation, you should be able to find a sense of purpose and fulfillment in it
- All the fellows are new here, don't worry about being inexperienced
- Just ask if you want help. The worst they can say is no.
- When coming up with project ideas:
- Notice problems in your day-to-day
- Become an expert on your passions / something valuable
- Pay attention to changes in the world around you (covid, AI etc.)
- Talk to people and organizations about their problems
- Launch fast, get evidence to see if it will work
- Competitions isn't necessarily bad, but if there is none why so?
- Never do the "same as x but cheaper". Do things different, not cheaper
- Most ideas don't work out, but it's a learning process
People
Fellows
- Corey Pudhorodsky
- Karina van Schaardenburg
- Isaiah Garcia
- Noopur Sharma
- Candelaria Primero NarvΓ‘ez
- Jared Naveed Malakouti
Speakers
- Evan Hynes - CEO & Co-Founder @ Climatebase
- Dr. Jonathan Foley - Executive Director @ Project Drawdown
- William McDonough - Chief Executive @ McDonough Innovation
- Anne Downing - Sr. Recruiter & Talent Acquisition Consultant
- Dr. David Pervan - Senior Lecturer @ Climatebase
- Carol Viana - Certification Partner Support Associate @ Rainforest Alliance
- Anushka Makhija - Senior Product Manager @ Form Energy
- Nicola Phillips - Growth Marketing Manager @ Latitude Media
- Jen Johnson - Director of Marketing & Communications @ Skoll Foundation
- Lauryn Morris - Founder @ Nice
- Nicole Yershov - Cofounder @ Dropseed
Links
- https://www.techtarget.com/sustainability/definition/green-collar-job
- https://www.techcarbonstandard.org
- https://www.npr.org/2024/03/05/1235694992/a-new-satellite-will-track-climate-warming-pollution-heres-why-thats-a-big-deal
- https://www.climateu.earth
- https://drawdown.org/solutions/table-of-solutions
- https://80000hours.org
- https://www.eesi.org/papers/view/fact-sheet-climate-jobs
- https://high5test.com
- https://www.nice.car/
- https://www.dropseedmarket.com/
- https://online.fliphtml5.com/xpweq/xugb/
- https://www.futurecrunch.com
- https://www.desmog.com
- https://www.frameworksinstitute.org/issues/climate-change-and-environment/
- https://esal.us
- https://drawdown.org/solutions
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice_Newton_Foote
- https://www.forestspeopleclimate.org/
- https://cleancreatives.org/
- https://www.techtarget.com/sustainability/definition/green-collar-job
Eventually got around to finishing GTA V in 2024. Still a great game.
I'm fully on board the web component train now π
My little personal UI library is coming along quite nicely using Lit, now to see I get on exporting them for use in other projects...
Could 2024 be the year I get back to posting to my own website? I've got a bad track record, but maybe this is the year...
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So there I am walking along an empty street, not really paying much attention to where I'm going, and I kid you not I step directly on a banana peel, slip and fall on my arse. I thought it was a myth or a nonsense joke. But now I know it's a real life danger.
After 5+ years of messing around with it, I think I'm finally approaching an actual launch for https://todomap.xyz Please feel free to try it out and let me know what you think π