home is right outside our doors. professor simon donna, professor climate ology at the university of british columbia. thanks so much for sharing your thoughts here on out there. thanks everyone in the program. meanwhile, the race of deforestation and brazil's amazon rain forest rose the 4th consecutive month in june. and they're off as it will only get west with more droughts and forest fires expected higher. it has this report new, dangerous, showing the world's largest tropical rain forest is shrinking fast scientists for years been warning that the amazon is disappearing. it's an alarming rates, especially in brazil. its last refuge for many endangered wildlife and home to millions of species. some of them still on identified and now that shows that the deforestation of the brazilian amazon rose for the 4th consecutive month in june, hitting a record high. in the 1st 6 months of this year alone. it went up by 17 percent. more than 3500 square kilometers of amazon have been cleared already. that's almost 3 times the size of the city of rio de janeiro. many blame the government. phil is committed t

of a long and challenging summer ahead. british colombia is badly hit with many fires caused by intense lightning storms. well earlier i spoke to elizabeth wolkovich, who's a climate change scientist from the university of british columbiaaffecting british columbia this year. it is certainly a surprise to anyone it is certainly a surprise for anyone living through it but british columbia is like california, a system used to wildfires, they are natural here, however, with climate change we have made them much worse. they cover enormous areas now and the fire season certainly feels like it is starting earlier and earlier. it feels like it is starting earlier and earlier, what can be done? we will get into the wider issues in a little bit, but locally, more locally, what can be done to try and mitigate this? certainly the services in british columbia, the military the firefighters, are doing what they can to put in fire breaks to start fires but most of the addiction to make ignition sources in british columbia are natural, so there is no real way to reduce the number of fires we have in the materials to burn, given the heat wave in the droughts, the ground is hard, the vegetation is dry, it is the perfect material for a f

she's a fellow at the university of british columbia, the outer space institute. she joins us on skype from washington. d. c. tawny harrison welcome to al to 0 is today a game changer i would say. so we're finally seeing all of these commercial based companies getting to the point where they're marching humans to either the interest space or into space. and that's really going to change the paradigm of how much it costs and how difficult it is to spend humans, not just for space tourism, but for scientific research and sending more humans to the space station. what do we get from it? in terms of humanity, in general, i mean, robert, it really well in, in his field report actually there's not just inspiration coming to people watching this in the hopes that they might want to enter. something related to space. they might want to enter the science and technology and engineering. feel that benefit of your are, you know, working on satellites that image years every day to teach us about the effects of climate change or worked on engineering to help us combat some of t

director of learned university center for sustainability studies and a professor of sustainability science and vancouver, simon donner, professor of climate ology at the university of british columbia. a warm welcome to you all, and thanks for joining us on inside story today, simon, let me start with you today. just please talk to our viewers through how exactly you go from global warming to then flooding on this scale. what does that process look like? well as well as the plan is warming, the atmosphere is able to hold more water. it's not, it's just physics. the more water the warmer, the air is, the greater the capacity is the whole water. people can learn that in your class that are university and so it works out that for about every degree of warming there's, there's on average around 67 percent more water in there, 6 to 7 percent more water in the air. and so usually is going to mean you're going to see more string rainfall as the planet been warming. now, i don't care whether we can connect that to an individual flood event. that's complicated big, of course, because flooding depends on all sorts of other factors about the landscape, but the rainfall, these incredibly unusu

book and this gentleman's called peter ryan, a, he's a neuro ethics professor from the university of british columbia. and he explains what gina was just explaining that how our brain can then use of the things to help us think better and operate better pieces. because much but exploration that i have so serious mentioned the following scenario. a few weeks ago you made an appointment to see the dentist say for next tuesday, tuesday morning. you wake up and you realize it today so that i can see the dentist but you're not for. was it the appointment at 2 o'clock or 3 o'clock? well fortunately you also noted this time with this putting it in a diary either a paper diary or in your fold for example. and you go. busy and you check that diary and you find out that the appointment is at 2 o'clock. what you've done is actually a very smart thing for several reasons. first of all, biological memory is unfortunately, latoria slee, unreliable for details like this. on the other hand, the diary is a perfect source of storing and record recalling that kind of information. but more importantly, what you've done

his tiny harrison fellow of the university of british columbia is outer space institute. he says human kind as a whole stance to benefit from this expansion of space tourism. there's not just inspiration coming to people watching this in the hopes that they might want to enter something related to space. they might want to enter science and technology and engineering field that benefit us here on earth, you know, working on satellites that image years every day. to teach us about the effect of climate change or worked on engineering to help us combat some of the impacts of climate change. on the space station, for example, they're doing a lot of biomedical research to try and see if we can find cures or infectious diseases or treatments for cancer. and so there's a lot of impacts on research that we do in space that maybe the general public isn't all that aware of. but everything that we do in space is really geared at trying to improve our lives. your honors overseeing this huge burst of innovation and the speed at which they can do things so much faster than any governme

we can now spaek to elizabeth wolkovich who's a climate change scientist from the university of british columbiaprogramme. the pictures are awful. the scale is incredible. is your position that actually, as shocking as it seems, this is not a surprise? it as shocking as it seems, this is not a surprise?— is not a surprise? it is certainly _ is not a surprise? it is certainly a _ is not a surprise? it is certainly a surprise i is not a surprise? it is certainly a surprise to| is not a surprise? it is - certainly a surprise to anyone living through it but british columbia is like california, thatis columbia is like california, that is used to wildfires, they are natural here, however, with climate change we have made them much worse. they cover enormous areas now and the fire season certainly feels like it is starting earlier starting earlier and earlier. it is starting earlier starting earlier and earlier. it feels like it is — earlier and earlier. it feels like it is starting _ earlier and earlier. it feels like it is starting earlier i earlier and earlier. it feels. like it is starting earlier

well, simon data is a professor of climatology at the university of british columbia. he says, world leaders must accept the climate change is no longer a future threat. it's already here. well this, this event, these he waved are clearly due to climate change. we've already had kind of forensic analysis sort of like the c s i team coming in after the crime scene looking for fingerprints. and then that analysis shows that the heat waves that we experienced in canada last week, we're more than 99 percent attributable to climate change. or another way to think about that, is there a $150.00 times or more, more likely to happen because of the human impact on the climate system. these are rare events that are becoming and incredibly more common because of climate change . and so there's really, there's really no doubt in the scientific community about that. you know, we're really getting to the key question. i mean we, what we're learning is that we cannot live with easily with climate change. the core of the problem is that the climate is changing faster than we can adapt

no line is a profess of climate justice, at the university of british columbia author of a number of books including on fire the burning case for a green new deal and she joins me now. naomi, i know that you have reported and written about migration and population movement in response to the warming of the planet. i think it is something that we don't think about a lot because we don't think of our era of being an error, like the great northern migration were huge amounts of people are going to move amount, but it seems to me inevitable that they're going to be huge population displacement and movements in the era that we're entering in right now. >> well, i think we're in that era, chris. it's good to be with you. when we see this huge migrations from central america, climate is already a driver, a un figure puts it at 20 million people on the move because of the climate crisis. and there's often an intersection of issues. it isn't just one single issue that pushes people to make that decision to move, it's usually multiple issues. you're talking about migration within the united st

. >> reporter: daniel poly is a marine biologist at the university of british columbia. he global catch comes from little guys. who eat or sell what they catch, just to survive. >> i have no problem with people not eating fish or not eating meat. but it is not a solution to a problem, like overfishing. >> there are hundreds of millions of people in bangladesh who don't have the luxury of thinking about going vegan. >> yeah. >> so, you end up with an audience that was privileged. >> reporter: he argues that the only fix is to force governments and corporations to police their waters and supply chains. >> the most fisheries, they are the ones that can mix up in the high seas, stolen fish. slave fish that are being caught by people that are working on slave-like commission. legal fish. they mix. and then, do not know what it is. you have no idea. >> reporter: and he says the best move for a healthy conscience and planet is to get to know your fishermen. when is possible, in places like maine. where most of the nearly-4,800 lobster licenses are owner operated. by people extre

she joins me now and an adjunct professor at the university of british columbia also with me, emily carringtonwashington. i'm so excited to talk to you. alyssa, first you told "the washington post" that this is the first time you've ever seen anything with this magnitude of mortality. tell us what you saw. >> yeah, it actually started with a smell. i went down to the beach to cool off because it was incredibly hot and it just smelled like cooking shellfish, sort of rotten putrid cooking shellfish smell and that triggered alarms for me and went and looked closer. you can see in these images mussels during low tide should be closed. they should be completely closed and holding water in to withstand the high temperatures and these had just all of them that i was looking at had died and you're seeing at the top of these rocks all of the mussels that were there died because -- >> were you just completely shocked? looking at these pictures, i can't believe what i'm seeing? >> yeah, i had been worried about the high temperatures because of the coincidence with the low tides but hadn't expected anythi

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