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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