Season 3 Preview

Laur Hesse Fisher: [00:00:00] Hi everyone, it’s Laur Hesse Fisher of Today I Learned: Climate, a podcast brought to you by the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative.

Climate change can be confusing, and there’s so much to know. That’s why we’re back with a third season of TILclimate, bringing you new episodes that explain the basics, like why exactly is sea level rising, how climate change affects our national security, how can soils and trees be part of the solution, and so much more. All with real scientists and experts who can give you the straight story, in about ten minutes, jargon-free.

Here’s a preview of what’s to come:

Charles Harvey: [00:00:47] So it's difficult to keep carbon sequestered because everything wants to eat it.

That's the way the biology on earth works. Photosynthesis pulls carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and, uh, thereby creates a source of energy for, for all of the, uh, microbes and animals on the planet.

Alice Hill: [00:01:08] Well, there weren't many, this is 2009, at the Department of Homeland Security who wanted to pin their careers to the issue of climate change. So, I was the new person who had arrived at the department. And as I remember it, we're sitting around the table, the senior leadership and someone says, “Oh, give it to her. She's new.”

Laur Hesse Fisher: [00:01:31] We’ll be releasing episodes as soon as we produce them, so hit subscribe to get notified when the next one is out. We’re kicking off the season with an MIT alum and Prof. at Georgetown University who studies what Americans think about climate change—and why it matters.

That episode is up next so stay with us and don’t forget to hit subscribe. OK here we go.