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Renewable Energy and Climate Lessons From Winter Weather Disasters (w/ Dr. Gabriel Filippelli and American Clean Power CEO Heather Zichal)

Feb 24, 2021

54:45

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Episode notes

Introduction

3min

How to Quicken the Pace for Action on Climate Change

5min

The Truth About the Texas Blackout

3min

The Importance of Distributed Energy Resources on the Grid

6min

The Role of American Clean Power in the Commercialization of Offshore Wind Energy

3min

The Importance of Transmission in Deploying Clean Energy

6min

The Polar Vortex and Winter Weather

4min

The Probability of a Polar Vortex Event

2min

The Predictability of Climate Change

3min

10.

The Importance of Climate Insurance

3min

11.

The Cost of Climate Denial

4min

12.

The United States Re-Joined the Paris Climate Accord

3min

13.

The United States' Disagreement With World Leaders on Climate Change

5min

14.

The Politics of Renewable Energy

3min

15.

The Bummer of Local Elections

4min

This week, we look back on the winter weather disaster in Texas and assess the lessons moving forward: how do we properly adapt to a changing climate that's affecting our winters? Dr. Gabriel Filippelli, Professor of Earth Sciences at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, explains why winter weather is getting weirder and American Clean Power CEO Heather Zichal discusses the accelerated need for more clean energy to combat the crisis.

Co-hosts Ty Benefiel and Brock Benefiel also discuss America officially re-entering the Paris Agreement, partisan motivation behind renewable opposition, and natural gas nonsense.

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