Part 1 of the Impacts of Climate Change (Systems Change Not Climate Change Ep 3)

The first episode on the impacts of climate change that introduces the feedback loop process and explains how climate change creates droughts and wildfires.

Timestamps

1:00 – Recap

1:57 – Why a 1°C increase matters

2:42 – Why we say climate change

4:44 - Droughts

5:54 – Feedback loops

6:26 – Droughts as a feedback loop

7:32 – The Cape Town drought

8:38 - Wildfires

10:17 – Arctic wildfires

11:06 – Arctic wildfires as a feedback loop

Questions

• Does a 1°C increase matter?
• Why do we usually call it climate change instead of global warming?
• How do impacts of climate change interact with one another, what is this process called?

Links

Temperatures: Warming projections

https://climateactiontracker.org/global/temperatures/

Arctic fire fills the skies with soot. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145380/arctic-fires-fill-the-skies-with-soot

How feedback loops are making the climate crisis worse. https://climaterealityproject.org/blog/how-feedback-loops-are-making-climate-crisis-worse

Drought and climate change.

https://www.c2es.org/content/drought-and-climate-change/

Harsh winters under climate change

https://climatekids.nasa.gov/harsh-winter/

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