In episode 93 of America Adapts, host Doug Parsons interviews Dr. Carolyn Kousky, the Executive Director at the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center at the University of Pennsylvania.  In this lively discussion, Doug and Carolyn discuss: how wildfires in California drove their utility into bankruptcy and what policy reforms are needed to prevent this from happening again; who owns the legal risks of climate change; needed disaster aid reform; the dysfunctional nature of flood insurance and the need to help low income households get access to appropriate disaster insurance. These topics and much more! Donate to America Adapts Listen to America Adapts on your favorite app here! Topics covered: Climate change and California wildfires and that state’s unique legal liability to these threats. Who ‘owns’ risk when it come to climate impacts? What are the major shortcomings of disaster aid. The critical need to engage with decisionmakers early in the policy process. How do you make academic adaptation research relevant in the real world. History and role of the Penn Risk Management Center. The challenge of people making illogical home buying decisions even if presented with accurate disaster risk information. (think flood plain and coastlines) Low income families need for disaster insurance and policy reform to help them get it. Why would any rationale private insurer do business in Florida? Need a Medicaid equivalent for low income households on resilience. What are the adaptation academic opportunities in universities. Dr. Carolyn Kousky is Executive Director at the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center at the University of Pennsylvania, where she also directs the Policy Incubator.  Dr. Kousky’s research has examined multiple aspects of disaster insurance markets, the National Flood Insurance Program, federal disaster aid and response, and policy responses to potential changes in extreme events with climate change. She has published numerous articles, reports, and book chapters on the economics and policy of natural disasters and disaster insurance markets, and is routinely cited in media outlets including NPR, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Fortune, CBS News, and Business Insurance, among others. She is the recipient of the 2013 Tartufari International Prize from the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Dr. Kousky was a member of the National Research Council Committee on Analysis of Costs and Benefits of Reforms to the National Flood Insurance Program and is a visiting Fellow at Resources for the Future.  She has a BS in Earth Systems from Stanford University and a PhD in Public Policy from Harvard University. Links in this episode: https://riskcenter.wharton.upenn.edu/carolyn-kousky/ https://riskcenter.wharton.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Financing-Third-Party-Wildfire-Damages-1.pdf https://www.citylab.com/environment/2018/10/how-america-fails-communicating-flood-risks/572620/ https://riskcenter.wharton.upenn.edu/incubator/ https://media.rff.org/archive/files/document/file/RFF-PB-17-01.pdf Donate to America Adapts Subscribe on your favorite podcast app! Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on Android Subscribe on Spotify  Podcasts in the Classroom – Discussion guides now available for the latest episode of America Adapts. These guides can be used by educators at all levels. Check them out here! Doug Parsons and Speaking Opportunities: If you are interested in having Doug speak at corporate and conference events, sharing his unique, expert perspective on adaptation in an entertaining and informative way, more information can be found here! Now on Spotify! List of Previous Guests on America Adapts Subscribe/listen to podcast on Apple Podcasts. Facebook and Twitter: @usaadapts https://www.facebook.com/americaadapts/timeline www.americaadapts.org Subscribe to America Adapts on Apple Podcasts https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/america-adapts-climate-change/id1133023095?mt=2 On Google Play here. Please share on Facebook! The best climate change podcasts on The Climate Advisor http://theclimateadvisor.com/the-best-climate-change-podcasts/ Directions on how to listen to America Adapts on Amazon Alexa https://youtu.be/949R8CRpUYU America Adapts also has its own app for your listening pleasure!  Just visit the App store on Apple or Google Play on Android and search “America Adapts.” Join the climate change adaptation movement by supporting America Adapts!  Please consider supporting this podcast by donating through America Adapts fiscal sponsor, the Social Good Fund. All donations are now tax deductible! For more information on this podcast, visit the website at http://www.americaadapts.org and don't forget to subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts.   Podcast Music produce by Richard Haitz Productions Write a review on Apple Podcasts! America Adapts on Facebook!   Join the America Adapts Facebook Community Group. Check us out, we’re also on YouTube! Producer Dan Ackerstein Subscribe to America Adapts on Apple Podcasts Doug can be contacted at americaadapts @ g mail . com

In episode 92 of America Adapts, host Doug Parsons interviews the CEO of Grist, Brady Walkinshaw.  Grist is the long time, online environmental news group.  Doug and Brady discuss the presidential politics of climate change; the race to define what the Green New Deal really is.  They also discuss how the Green New Deal address climate adaptation and Grist’s own coverage of the issue. They also discuss the challenges of covering environmental news in a non partisan way, and sharing some of the Grist news programs. Donate to America Adapts Listen to America Adapts on your favorite app here! Topics covered: What is Grist environmental news. A deep dive on the Green New Deal: substance, players and politics of it. “It’s a positive viewpoint of the future, not a negative one.” 2020 Presidential elections and climate politics. Should there be a climate presidential debate (yes)? Does the green new deal address climate adaptation? Is it impossible to do bipartisan Green New Deal? Is it time to play hard ball on this issue? How does Grist cover climate adaptation. The media needs to help with the false narrative of ‘climate proofing’ society. Learn how to follow Grist and their media programs. Links in this episode: https://grist.org/article/this-california-community-is-paying-for-your-holiday-shopping-with-their-air-quality/ https://grist.org/article/the-green-new-deal-is-pushing-climate-change-into-the-mainstream-media/?utm_content=buffer2756c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-resolution/109/text https://grist.org/article/the-green-new-deal-is-here-and-everyone-has-something-to-say-about-it/ https://grist.org/article/the-green-new-deal-is-pushing-climate-change-into-the-mainstream-media/?utm_content=buffer2756c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer https://twitter.com/grist https://grist.org/article/the-green-new-deal-is-here-and-everyone-has-something-to-say-about-it/ Donate to America Adapts Subscribe on your favorite podcast app! Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on Android Subscribe on Spotify Podcasts in the Classroom – Discussion guides now available for the latest episode of America Adapts. These guides can be used by educators at all levels. Check them out here! Doug Parsons and Speaking Opportunities: If you are interested in having Doug speak at corporate and conference events, sharing his unique, expert perspective on adaptation in an entertaining and informative way, more information can be found here! Now on Spotify! List of Previous Guests on America Adapts Subscribe/listen to podcast on Apple Podcasts. Facebook and Twitter: @usaadapts https://www.facebook.com/americaadapts/timeline www.americaadapts.org @grist Subscribe to America Adapts on Apple Podcasts https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/america-adapts-climate-change/id1133023095?mt=2 On Google Play here. Please share on Facebook! The best climate change podcasts on The Climate Advisor http://theclimateadvisor.com/the-best-climate-change-podcasts/ Directions on how to listen to America Adapts on Amazon Alexa https://youtu.be/949R8CRpUYU America Adapts also has its own app for your listening pleasure!  Just visit the App store on Apple or Google Play on Android and search “America Adapts.” Join the climate change adaptation movement by supporting America Adapts!  Please consider supporting this podcast by donating through America Adapts fiscal sponsor, the Social Good Fund. All donations are now tax deductible! For more information on this podcast, visit the website at http://www.americaadapts.org and don't forget to subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts.   Podcast Music produce by Richard Haitz Productions Write a review on Apple Podcasts! America Adapts on Facebook!   Join the America Adapts Facebook Community Group. Check us out, we’re also on YouTube! Producer Dan Ackerstein Subscribe to America Adapts on Apple Podcasts Doug can be contacted at americaadapts @ g mail . com

In episode 91 of America Adapts, host Doug Parsons goes to the 2019 National Adaptation Forum in Madison, Wisconsin!  During this adaptation-palooza, Doug interviews a variety of conference participants.  Discover the topics and themes covered at this event and learn how diverse the adaptation community has become. Hear what presentations stood out and how adaptation professionals see this sector growing.  Doug also interviews several listeners of the podcast and gets their feedback on the conference.  If you couldn’t make the conference yourself, this is the next best thing, hearing dispatches from those in attendance on what makes the National Adaptation Forum the premiere adaptation event in the country.    Donate to America Adapts Interviewed in this episode: Lara Hansen, Executive Director of EcoAdapt and co-founder of NAF Amber Pairis, lead for the Climate Science Alliance, California Emily Wasley, Adaptation Professional Jesse Keenan, Harvard University Lisa Craig, Principal Lisa Craig Group Rohan Hamdem, XDI Cross Dependency Initiative Sebastian Malter, Climate Resiliency & Water Resources Expert at CDM Smith Patrick Marchman, Mitigation Champion at Resilience Action Partners/Michael Baker Intl. Angela Wong, Climate Adaptation & Resilience, Massachusetts of Technology Hugh C. McDiarmid Jr., Communication Officer, Kresge Foundation Deanna Moran and Elena Mihaly, Conservation Law Foundation Lannette Rangel, Duke University Rich Bunnell, Communications specialist Rebecca Esselman, Huron River Watershed Council Links in this episode: https://www.nationaladaptationforum.org/program Donate to America Adapts Subscribe on your favorite podcast app! Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on Android Subscribe on Spotify Podcasts in the Classroom – Discussion guides now available for the latest episode of America Adapts. These guides can be used by eductors at all levels. Check them out here! Doug Parsons and Speaking Opportunities: If you are interested in having Doug speak at corporate and conference events, sharing his unique, expert perspective on adaptation in an entertaining and informative way, more information can be found here! Now on Spotify! List of Previous Guests on America Adapts Subscribe/listen to podcast on Apple Podcasts. Facebook and Twitter: @usaadapts https://www.facebook.com/americaadapts/timeline www.americaadapts.org @Jesse_M_Keenan Subscribe to America Adapts on Apple Podcasts https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/america-adapts-climate-change/id1133023095?mt=2 On Google Play here. Please share on Facebook! The best climate change podcasts on The Climate Advisor http://theclimateadvisor.com/the-best-climate-change-podcasts/ Directions on how to listen to America Adapts on Amazon Alexa https://youtu.be/949R8CRpUYU America Adapts also has its own app for your listening pleasure!  Just visit the App store on Apple or Google Play on Android and search “America Adapts.” Join the climate change adaptation movement by supporting America Adapts!  Please consider supporting this podcast by donating through America Adapts fiscal sponsor, the Social Good Fund. All donations are now tax deductible! For more information on this podcast, visit the website at http://www.americaadapts.org and don't forget to subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts.   Podcast Music produce by Richard Haitz Productions Write a review on Apple Podcasts! America Adapts on Facebook!   Join the America Adapts Facebook Community Group. Check us out, we’re also on YouTube! Producer Dan Ackerstein Subscribe to America Adapts on Apple Podcasts Doug can be contacted at americaadapts @ g mail . com

In episode 90 of America Adapts, host Doug Parsons travels to beautiful Saint Augustine, Florida for the Keeping History Above Water conference.  Doug interviews experts on the threat of sea level rise to cultural resources. Learn the innovative, proactive approaches the city of St. Augustine is taking to address sea level rise. The conference highlights the specific examples of adaptation planning that are happening at the local community level.  Discover how historic preservation will be a key catalyst for adapting the built environment to climate change. Learn how the Keeping History Above Water series is challenging the historic preservation sector to factor in the enormous challenges of sea level rise.   This episode of America Adapts was generously sponsored by Sponsored by the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training, Flagler College, and the University of Florida. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app! Donate to America Adapts Interviewed in this episode: Leslee Keys – Assistant Professor, Director of Historic Preservation and Special Initiatives, Flagler College (2:50) Kelsey Mullen - Public Programs Manager, Newport Restoration Foundation (11:46) Andrea Dutton – Asst. Professor, University of Florida (14:50) John Regan – City Manager, City of St. Augustine (27:09) Lisa Craig – The Lisa Craig Group (33:45) Emily Jane Murray - Public Archaeology Coordinator at The Florida Public Archaeology Network (40:49) Katherine Jacob – Education Director, The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach (43:43) Briana Paxton Grosicki - Director of Research at PlaceEconomics (48:30) Jeff Goodell – Rolling Stone Magazine (53:46) Marcy Rockman – Climate Change and Cultural Heritage, IPCC Team Lead (1:01:42) Mallory Hopkins – Filmmaker “Sea Level Rise in St. Augustine” (1:06:50) Morris Hylton III - Program Director Historic Preservation, University of Florida (1:14:13) Melissa Wyllie – Executive Director of The Florida Trust for Historic Preservation (1:24:32) Isabel Rivera-Collazo - Assistant Professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (1:28:10) Links in this episode: http://historyabovewater.org/2019-st-augustine/ https://dcp.ufl.edu/historic-preservation/ http://historyabovewater.org/2019-st-augustine/st-augustine-program/ http://historyabovewater.org/2019-st-augustine/2019-st-augustine-speakers/ https://www.palmbeachpreservation.org/directory/katherine-jacob http://www.citystaug.com/government/administration/city_manager.php http://www.newportrestoration.org/staff-and-trustees/ Link to the presentation Doug Parsons did at Flagler College on “How to podcast” prior to the conference. Donate to America Adapts Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on Android Podcasts in the Classroom – All episode discussion guides available here. “Watch” America Adapts on the Climate Monitor tv channel. For more information, here. Doug Parsons and Speaking Opportunities: If you are interested in having Doug speak at corporate and conference events, sharing his unique, expert perspective on adaptation in an entertaining and informative way, more information can be found here! Now on Spotify! List of Previous Guests on America Adapts Subscribe/listen to podcast on Apple Podcasts. Facebook and Twitter: @usaadapts https://www.facebook.com/americaadapts/timeline www.americaadapts.org @jeffgoodell @HistAboveWater @PBPreservation ‏ @FlaglerCollege @DrAndreaDutton Subscribe to America Adapts on Apple Podcasts https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/america-adapts-climate-change/id1133023095?mt=2 On Google Play here. Please share on Facebook! The best climate change podcasts on The Climate Advisor http://theclimateadvisor.com/the-best-climate-change-podcasts/ Directions on how to listen to America Adapts on Amazon Alexa https://youtu.be/949R8CRpUYU America Adapts also has its own app for your listening pleasure!  Just visit the App store on Apple or Google Play on Android and search “America Adapts.” Join the climate change adaptation movement by supporting America Adapts!  Please consider supporting this podcast by donating through America Adapts fiscal sponsor, the Social Good Fund. All donations are now tax deductible! For more information on this podcast, visit the website at http://www.americaadapts.org and don't forget to subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts.   Podcast Music produce by Richard Haitz Productions Write a review on Apple Podcasts! America Adapts on Facebook!   Join the America Adapts Facebook Community Group. Check us out, we’re also on YouTube! Producer Dan Ackerstein Subscribe to America Adapts on Apple Podcasts Doug can be contacted at americaadapts @ g mail . com

In episode 89 of America Adapts, host Doug Parsons interviews Yale-Nus College Asst. Professor of Environmental Studies Dr. Matthew Schneider-Mayerson about his recent literacy research on how “Cli-Fi”, or climate change science fiction, can influence a reader’s behavior. Doug is joined in this interview by Cli-Fi expert, Dr. Amy Brady, a previous guest on America Adapts.  In a bonus conversation, Doug interviews Laur Hesse Fisher, host of a new podcast, Today I Learned: Climate (TILClimate), based out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Discover how this new podcast is teaching climate fundamentals in short, science driven episodes. Donate to America Adapts Other Topics covered: Using “Cli-Fi” to influence a reader’s behavior. Amy Brady weighs in on need for empirical evidence in the cli fi genre. Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, says “the future is a distant country.” Using “Cli-Fi” to move people from just awareness to actual action. “Cli-Fi” can help bring people together to talk about climate change. Links in this episode: https://yale-nus.academia.edu/MatthewSchneiderMayerson https://www.yale-nus.edu.sg/about/faculty/matthew-schneider-mayerson/ http://news.mit.edu/2019/mit-tilclimate-podcast-breaks-down-climate-change-facts-0502 https://www.academia.edu/37913124/The_Influence_of_Climate_Fiction_An_Empirical_Survey_of_Readers https://climate.mit.edu/users/tilclimate-podcast https://climate.mit.edu/ https://www.yale-nus.edu.sg/ Donate to America Adapts Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on Android Podcasts in the Classroom – All episode discussion guides available here. “Watch” America Adapts on the Climate Monitor tv channel. For more information, here. Doug Parsons and Speaking Opportunities: If you are interested in having Doug speak at corporate and conference events, sharing his unique, expert perspective on adaptation in an entertaining and informative way, more information can be found here! Now on Spotify! List of Previous Guests on America Adapts Subscribe/listen to podcast on Apple Podcasts. Facebook and Twitter: @usaadapts https://www.facebook.com/americaadapts/timeline www.americaadapts.org @schneidermayers @TILclimate Subscribe to America Adapts on Apple Podcasts https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/america-adapts-climate-change/id1133023095?mt=2 On Google Play here. Please share on Facebook! The best climate change podcasts on The Climate Advisor http://theclimateadvisor.com/the-best-climate-change-podcasts/ Directions on how to listen to America Adapts on Amazon Alexa https://youtu.be/949R8CRpUYU America Adapts also has its own app for your listening pleasure!  Just visit the App store on Apple or Google Play on Android and search “America Adapts.” Join the climate change adaptation movement by supporting America Adapts!  Please consider supporting this podcast by donating through America Adapts fiscal sponsor, the Social Good Fund. All donations are now tax deductible! For more information on this podcast, visit the website at http://www.americaadapts.org and don't forget to subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts.   Podcast Music produce by Richard Haitz Productions Write a review on Apple Podcasts! America Adapts on Facebook!   Join the America Adapts Facebook Community Group. Check us out, we’re also on YouTube! Producer Dan Ackerstein Subscribe to America Adapts on Apple Podcasts Doug can be contacted at americaadapts @ g mail . com

In episode 88 of America Adapts, host Doug Parsons interviews Dr. Marcy Rockman, cultural resource and climate adaptation expert. Marcy, until recently, was the Cultural Resources Adaptation Coordinator for the National Park Service and is now the IPCC Team Lead with the International Council on Monuments and Sites Climate Change and Heritage Working Group. Marcy and I discuss her time at the Park Service, developing the first of its kind cultural resource and climate change white paper. We also talk about how climate change will impact historic sites and how it’s a threat multiplier.  Marcy also discusses the tension at the Park Service between natural resources and cultural resources which ultimately led to her leaving the NPS. Hear about these issues and much more! Donate to America Adapts Other Topics covered: Is time more important than resources? When do historic sites stop making history? Climate change is a threat multiplier for cultural history. Has the NPS ever let a park or resource ‘go’ due to climate change? Some historic sites are ‘frozen in time’ but climate change may allow them to start making history again. Should we let Ft. Jefferson in Florida fall apart into the sea? Tension at NPS on natural resources versus historic preservation. Natural resource parks and cultural resources parks are sometimes treated in a gender oriented way. Nat resources the masculine, cultural the more feminine. History of the cultural resources memo at NPS and what went into it. Links in this episode: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/climatechange/upload/NPS-2016_Cultural-Resoures-Climate-Change-Strategy.pdf https://grist.org/article/national-park-service-climate-change-jamestown/ https://medium.com/@marcyrockman/how-to-pack-a-cultural-suitcase-d8c02a6c455d https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/417022-head-of-nps-climate-change-adaption-program-resigns https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aRl9tgTW3-XCEjNOtfxp2XG6ZpIs_BSv/view https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2018/11/nps-climate-change-adaptation-head-quits-over-lack-support Donate to America Adapts Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on Android Podcasts in the Classroom – All episode discussion guides available here. “Watch” America Adapts on the Climate Monitor tv channel. For more information, here. Doug Parsons and Speaking Opportunities: If you are interested in having Doug speak at corporate and conference events, sharing his unique, expert perspective on adaptation in an entertaining and informative way, more information can be found here! Now on Spotify! List of Previous Guests on America Adapts Subscribe/listen to podcast on Apple Podcasts. Facebook and Twitter: @usaadapts https://www.facebook.com/americaadapts/timeline www.americaadapts.org @marcyrockman Subscribe to America Adapts on Apple Podcasts https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/america-adapts-climate-change/id1133023095?mt=2 On Google Play here. Please share on Facebook! The best climate change podcasts on The Climate Advisor http://theclimateadvisor.com/the-best-climate-change-podcasts/ Directions on how to listen to America Adapts on Amazon Alexa https://youtu.be/949R8CRpUYU America Adapts also has its own app for your listening pleasure!  Just visit the App store on Apple or Google Play on Android and search “America Adapts.” Join the climate change adaptation movement by supporting America Adapts!  Please consider supporting this podcast by donating through America Adapts fiscal sponsor, the Social Good Fund. All donations are now tax deductible! For more information on this podcast, visit the website at http://www.americaadapts.org and don't forget to subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts.   Podcast Music produce by Richard Haitz Productions Write a review on Apple Podcasts! America Adapts on Facebook!   Join the America Adapts Facebook Community Group. Check us out, we’re also on YouTube! Producer Dan Ackerstein Subscribe to America Adapts on Apple Podcasts Doug can be contacted at americaadapts @ g mail . com

In episode 87 of America Adapts, host Doug Parsons interviews Dr. Kyle Powys Whyte. Kyle is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Community Sustainability and a faculty affiliate of the American Indian & Indigenous Studies and Environmental Science & Policy programs at Michigan State University. Kyle is also an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Kyle and I discuss how indigenous people define urgency in the face of climate change, managed retreat for tribal communities, the national climate assessment and tribal issues, the sometimes controversial relationship between tribes and climate scientists, climate change’s role in ongoing colonization of indigenous people, effective tribal engagement and much more in a fascinating and sometimes raw conversation. Donate to America Adapts Other Topics covered: Fundamentals of indigenous people and climate adaptation. Tribal people have historically ‘adapted’ to environmental change many times. What does managed retreat mean for tribal people? Is history repeating itself with displacing native people in response to climate change? Can existing tribal treaty rights be used as a legal tool to combat climate change? How did the recent national climate assessment do on tribal issues (hint: pretty well); Does tribal integrity help with adapting to climate change more effectively? For tribes, resilience is cultural and spiritual, and something always done by tribes. Indigenous people can define climate urgency and intrinsic value differently than western cultures. The challenges of tribal engagement, from both tribal perspective and western cultures. Does tribal ‘bureaucracy’ inhibit climate adaptation and partner building? The sometimes controversial relationship between tribes and climate scientists. Raw transcripts of this episode are available here. Links in this episode: https://risingvoices.ucar.edu/ https://kylewhyte.cal.msu.edu/climate-justice/ https://kylewhyte.cal.msu.edu/ https://kylewhyte.cal.msu.edu/about/ https://www.potawatomi.org/ Donate to America Adapts Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on Android Podcasts in the Classroom – All episode discussion guides available here. “Watch” America Adapts on the Climate Monitor tv channel. For more information, here. Doug Parsons and Speaking Opportunities: If you are interested in having Doug speak at corporate and conference events, sharing his unique, expert perspective on adaptation in an entertaining and informative way, more information can be found here! Now on Spotify! List of Previous Guests on America Adapts Subscribe/listen to podcast on Apple Podcasts. Facebook and Twitter: @usaadapts https://www.facebook.com/americaadapts/timeline www.americaadapts.org @kylepowyswhyte Subscribe to America Adapts on Apple Podcasts https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/america-adapts-climate-change/id1133023095?mt=2 On Google Play here. Please share on Facebook! The best climate change podcasts on The Climate Advisor http://theclimateadvisor.com/the-best-climate-change-podcasts/ Directions on how to listen to America Adapts on Amazon Alexa https://youtu.be/949R8CRpUYU America Adapts also has its own app for your listening pleasure!  Just visit the App store on Apple or Google Play on Android and search “America Adapts.” Join the climate change adaptation movement by supporting America Adapts!  Please consider supporting this podcast by donating through America Adapts fiscal sponsor, the Social Good Fund. All donations are now tax deductible! For more information on this podcast, visit the website at http://www.americaadapts.org and don't forget to subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts.   Podcast Music produce by Richard Haitz Productions Write a review on Apple Podcasts! America Adapts on Facebook!   Join the America Adapts Facebook Community Group. Check us out, we’re also on YouTube! Producer Dan Ackerstein Subscribe to America Adapts on Apple Podcasts Doug can be contacted at americaadapts @ g mail . com

He’s back! In episode 86 of America Adapts, host Doug Parsons interviews famed climatologist Dr. Michael Mann.  Dr. Mann is the author of the famous ‘hockey stick’ climate research that has become one of the iconic images in the climate movement. This is Dr. Mann’s second appearance on America Adapts. In this episode, we discuss: winning the Tyler Prize (the environmental equivalent of the Nobel Prize); the quickly emerging issue of climate adaptation; Trump’s climate policies being worse than our worst case predictions; academic freedom and climate denial; the new generation of outspoken climate scientists and the worldwide climate youth movement!      Donate to America Adapts Other Topics covered: Discussing the Tyler Prize and his co winner Dr. Warren Washington, a trailblazer in climate modeling. Discussing people living with climate impacts today and how that undermines President Trump’s climate skepticism. Climate trolls and how to counter them. Climate deniers harassment has led to a new generation of battle ready climate scientists. Trump administration burying the National Climate Assessment. Appointing skeptics and why universities protect the few climate skeptics with PhDs. How the issue of adaptation has become more prominent for climate scientists. Mann wants America Adapts to interview Donald Trump! And finally the exciting development of the Youth climate movement! Subscribe to America Adapts, text “adapters” to 31996! Links in this episode: https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/updates/mann-tyler.cfm https://news.psu.edu/story/558486/2019/02/12/research/michael-mann-awarded-2019-tyler-prize-environmental-achievement https://www.ucsusa.org/how-fossil-fuel-industry-harassed-climate-scientist-michael-mann http://www.michaelmann.net/ Donate to America Adapts Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on Android Podcasts in the Classroom - Use this episode in your classroom, discussion guides available below. Episode 83 discussion guides available here. This episode is especially relevant for workforce trainings, be sure to check it out! Episode 82 with Signe Nielsen (New York Adapts to Climate Change) Discussion Guide here. For a list of general questions that we believe are useful for classroom discussions about podcast more generally, see the exemplar guide available here. “Watch” America Adapts on the Climate Monitor tv channel. For more information, here. Doug Parsons and Speaking Opportunities: If you are interested in having Doug speak at corporate and conference events, sharing his unique, expert perspective on adaptation in an entertaining and informative way, more information can be found here! Now on Spotify! List of Previous Guests on America Adapts Subscribe/listen to podcast on Apple Podcasts. Facebook and Twitter: @usaadapts https://www.facebook.com/americaadapts/timeline www.americaadapts.org @MichaelEMann Subscribe to America Adapts on Apple Podcasts https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/america-adapts-climate-change/id1133023095?mt=2 On Google Play here. Please share on Facebook! The best climate change podcasts on The Climate Advisor http://theclimateadvisor.com/the-best-climate-change-podcasts/ Directions on how to listen to America Adapts on Amazon Alexa https://youtu.be/949R8CRpUYU America Adapts also has its own app for your listening pleasure!  Just visit the App store on Apple or Google Play on Android and search “America Adapts.” Join the climate change adaptation movement by supporting America Adapts!  Please consider supporting this podcast by donating through America Adapts fiscal sponsor, the Social Good Fund. All donations are now tax deductible! For more information on this podcast, visit the website at http://www.americaadapts.org and don't forget to subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts.   Podcast Music produce by Richard Haitz Productions Write a review on Apple Podcasts! America Adapts on Facebook!   Join the America Adapts Facebook Community Group. Check us out, we’re also on YouTube! Producer Dan Ackerstein Subscribe to America Adapts on Apple Podcasts Doug can be contacted at americaadapts @ g mail . com

In episode 85 of America Adapts – a true event episode - Doug Parsons interviews the hosts of some of your favorite climate change podcasts!  Warm Regards, Climactic, No Place Like Home, Climate Ready, Climate One, The Climate and Security Podcast, MIT’s Climate Conversations and Reversing Climate change all join Doug on the pod to share their stories.  Learn what inspired them to start their podcasts, the types of guests they host and their insight on why podcasts are a great platform to create awareness around  climate change. This episode will truly inspire you as you go behind the scenes on what it takes to host a climate podcast.  The hosts are scientists, journalists, activists and educators, all bringing their unique style to their shows. For the first time in a podcast, a single episode highlights some of your favorite climate podcasters. You’re going to love this episode!  Podcasters, in order of appearance: Warm Regards (02:02) with host Jacquelyn Gill Listen on Apple Podcasts Climactic (17:52) with Mark Spencer and Rich Bowden Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify The Climate and Security Podcast (34:31) with Sweta Chakraborty Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify No Place Like Home (48:00) with Anna Jane Joyner & Mary Anne Hitt Listen on Apple Podcasts Climate Ready (1:06) with Ingrid Timboe and Alex Mauroner Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Climate Conversations (1:21) with MIT’s Curt Newton Listen on Apple Podcasts Reversing Climate Change (1:33) with Ross Kenyon Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Climate One (1:46) with Greg Dalton Listen on Apple Podcasts Facebook and Twitter: @usaadapts https://www.facebook.com/americaadapts/timeline www.americaadapts.org @ourwarmregards @JacquelynGill @maryannehitt @nplhpodcast https://twitter.com/nplhpodcast https://twitter.com/annajanejoyner @ClimateMIT @qwertnewto @climateone Donate to America Adapts Subscribe to America Adapts, text “adapters” to 31996! Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on Android Podcasts in the Classroom - Use this episode in your classroom, discussion guides available below. Episode 84 discussion guides available here. Episode 83 discussion guides available here. This episode is especially relevant for workforce trainings, be sure to check it out! Episode 82 with Signe Nielsen (New York Adapts to Climate Change) Discussion Guide here. For a list of general questions that we believe are useful for classroom discussions about podcast more generally, see the exemplar guide available here. “Watch” America Adapts on the Climate Monitor tv channel. For more information, here. Doug Parsons and Speaking Opportunities: If you are interested in having Doug speak at corporate and conference events, sharing his unique, expert perspective on adaptation in an entertaining and informative way, more information can be found here! Now on Spotify! List of Previous Guests on America Adapts Subscribe/listen to podcast on Apple Podcasts. Subscribe to America Adapts on Apple Podcasts https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/america-adapts-climate-change/id1133023095?mt=2 On Google Play here. Please share on Facebook! The best climate change podcasts on The Climate Advisor http://theclimateadvisor.com/the-best-climate-change-podcasts/ Directions on how to listen to America Adapts on Amazon Alexa https://youtu.be/949R8CRpUYU America Adapts also has its own app for your listening pleasure!  Just visit the App store on Apple or Google Play on Android and search “America Adapts.” Join the climate change adaptation movement by supporting America Adapts!  Please consider supporting this podcast by donating through America Adapts fiscal sponsor, the Social Good Fund. All donations are now tax deductible! For more information on this podcast, visit the website at http://www.americaadapts.org and don't forget to subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts.   Podcast Music produce by Richard Haitz Productions Write a review on Apple Podcasts! America Adapts on Facebook!   Join the America Adapts Facebook Community Group. Check us out, we’re also on YouTube! Producer Dan Ackerstein Subscribe to America Adapts on Apple Podcasts Doug can be contacted at americaadapts @ g mail . com

In episode 84 of America Adapts, host Doug Parsons interviews Dr. Jesse Keenan, from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Jesse recently published a book Climate Adaptation Finance and  Investment in California. Also, Jesse answers questions from listeners on the general “State of Adaptation.” Topics covered in this episode:  adaptation finance, understanding ‘maladaptation’, differences between finance and funding; social equity and much, much more!    Donate to America Adapts Other Topics covered: Defining the field of climate finance relating to adaptation. What we give up by not adapting. California’s approach to mitigation and adaptation Financing large scale climate communications. Social equity and the opportunity adaptation provides. The current state of climate change podcasts and much, much more! The role of foundations in experimenting in adaptation planning. Disaster capitalism and could we see an Enron type situation in adaptation. Subscribe to America Adapts, text “adapters” to 31996! Links in this episode: https://www.routledge.com/Climate-Adaptation-Finance-and-Investment-in-California/Keenan/p/book/9780367026073 https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/person/jesse-keenan/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA80pmg4pGc https://scholar.harvard.edu/jessemkeenan/videos Donate to America Adapts Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on Android Podcasts in the Classroom - Use this episode in your classroom, discussion guides available below. Episode 83 discussion guides available here. This episode is especially relevant for workforce trainings, be sure to check it out! Episode 82 with Signe Nielsen (New York Adapts to Climate Change) Discussion Guide here. For a list of general questions that we believe are useful for classroom discussions about podcast more generally, see the exemplar guide available here. “Watch” America Adapts on the Climate Monitor tv channel. For more information, here. Doug Parsons and Speaking Opportunities: If you are interested in having Doug speak at corporate and conference events, sharing his unique, expert perspective on adaptation in an entertaining and informative way, more information can be found here! Now on Spotify! List of Previous Guests on America Adapts Subscribe/listen to podcast on Apple Podcasts. Facebook and Twitter: @usaadapts https://www.facebook.com/americaadapts/timeline www.americaadapts.org @Jesse_M_Keenan Subscribe to America Adapts on Apple Podcasts https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/america-adapts-climate-change/id1133023095?mt=2 On Google Play here. Please share on Facebook! The best climate change podcasts on The Climate Advisor http://theclimateadvisor.com/the-best-climate-change-podcasts/ Directions on how to listen to America Adapts on Amazon Alexa https://youtu.be/949R8CRpUYU America Adapts also has its own app for your listening pleasure!  Just visit the App store on Apple or Google Play on Android and search “America Adapts.” Join the climate change adaptation movement by supporting America Adapts!  Please consider supporting this podcast by donating through America Adapts fiscal sponsor, the Social Good Fund. All donations are now tax deductible! For more information on this podcast, visit the website at http://www.americaadapts.org and don't forget to subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts.   Podcast Music produce by Richard Haitz Productions Write a review on Apple Podcasts! America Adapts on Facebook!   Join the America Adapts Facebook Community Group. Check us out, we’re also on YouTube! Producer Dan Ackerstein Subscribe to America Adapts on Apple Podcasts Doug can be contacted at americaadapts @ g mail . com