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CultureLab: Surviving the climate crisis – Michael Mann’s hopeful lessons from Earth’s deep history

Oct 2, 2023
Michael Mann, University of Pennsylvania climate scientist and activist, discusses how past climate events can teach us about our future and emphasizes the urgency of taking action to prevent further climate damage. Topics include extreme weather events in 2023, embracing uncertainty when discussing climate change, the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), the impacts of climate change throughout Earth's history, and insights from the paleoclimate record.
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