Energy vs Climate How the Climate Spent its Summer
David, Sara and Ed unpack what moved the dial on climate and energy this summer. They also look at this week's climate and energy news and preview what's to come on this season of Energy vs Climate.
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@1:12 Sustainable Energy Development Masters Program at the University of Calgary
@3:30 Energy within Environmental Constraints - Harvard Massive Online Open Course
@6:37 Executives from Exxon, Shell, BP and others are being called to testify in Congress
@7:39 Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
@7:45 Drilled Podcast
@12:58 Harvard University pledges to divest from fossil fuels
David on Divestment
@17:41 Cost of financing for coal
Coal financing costs surge as investors opt for renewable energy
@20:55
Work begins on 3.3 GW solar-CSP project linked to 500 MW of storage, in Qinghai
China pledges to stop building new coal energy plants abroad
@27:13 Heat Impacts
Extreme, deadly heat in Canada is going to come back, and worse. Will we be ready?
Heat has larger impacts on labor in poorer areas (David is a co-author)
Relationship between season of birth, temperature exposure, and later life wellbeing
@35:25 2021 IPCC Report
@35:30 The Environmentalist’s Dilemma: Promise and Peril in an Age of Climate Crisis by Arno Kopecky
@39:42 US EV sales data
Norway bans gas car sales in 2025, but trends
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