May 5, 2024
MEERTALK May 2024
Learn about the complexity of tipping points, including the difference between positive and negative tipping points, whether pertaining to the Earth System or to human agency. Find out where we should be putting our focus and efforts.
Paul Beckwith is a part-time professor in climatology; working on Ph.D. in abrupt climate change. He has an engineering and physics background with a varied experience base including product management and organization, teaching, and research (academic and corporate).

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Fighting Extreme Heat: Eleni Myrivili / Global Chief Heat Officer
Stressing the need for awareness, Global Chief Heat Officer Eleni Myrivili leads the response to extreme heat that threatens lives and livelihoods worldwide. She outlines ideal countermeasures.
February 6, 2024
Articles

Let's Restore a Healthy Climate
The world continues to experience a relentless increase in average and extreme temperatures every year - much beyond what scientists and scientific models projected or expected. We now have to use previously unfamiliar terms to describe today’s new world - atmospheric rivers, sunny day flooding, rain bombs, derechos, flash droughts and many more. No place, no time of year and no person is immune from the severe direct and indirect impacts of a scorching planet.
February 6, 2024
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MEERTALK February 2024
The Emperor's New Climate Scenarios
Sandy Trust explains why commonly used models in financial services are underestimating climate risk, presenting the findings of a collaborative research paper between actuaries and leading climate scientists ‘The Emperor’s New Climate Scenarios’, in a talk that will be in turns absurd, scary and hopeful.
February 4, 2024
MEERTALK