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FASTER, HIGHER, HOTTER, TAKEAWAYS FROM CLIMATE 2022: David Spratt, Research Director for Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration, Melbourne

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Learn how surface-based solar reflectors could provide localized cooling benefits and stabilize Earth's temperatures to prevent overheating.

At his meeting with staff at Freetown's Fourah Bay College, Dr. Ye Tao discussed the Cooldown Freetown! project concept with department heads and others.

MEER's Founder Dr. Ye Tao arrived in Freetown, Sierra Leone, in January, to begin working with local city officials and university staff on MEER's "Cool Down Freetown!" project, the first of MEER's planned Urban Cooling project series.

People in Freetown, Sierra Leone, are increasingly exposed to extreme heat due to climate change and the urban heat island effect, but covering homes in a reflective film significantly cut indoor temperatures

Dr. Rupert Read sets out succinctly the case for building what has come to be called a new mass ‘moderate’ flank in climate action: reaching well beyond the ‘ghetto’ of existing activism, to those who won’t in fact consider themselves activists at all.

MEER Founder Dr. Ye Tao was invited to Santiago de Chile to present at the "Congreso Futuro" along with many other speakers, including award-wining German filmmaker Werner Herzog.

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ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION: STORIES FROM THE FRONTLINES Ugochi Anyaka-Oluigbo, environmental journalist speaks about climate change in Nigeria and the people it's affecting.

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Dr. Tao was invited to attend Congreso Futuro in Santiago, Chile, where he presented on the topic "What Inspires Us." Dr. Tao discussed how in a just civilization, capable of longevity, we would want equality of opportunity as well as equal access to happiness, but also we would want to operate within the ecological limits of this planet.

Dr. Gulrez Shah Azhar explores mechanisms to mitigate the mortality effects of heatwaves. To generate appropriate local heat adaptation measures, he conducted sixteen in-depth interviews of academics, climate-health researchers, medical doctors, community activists, urban planners, and policy advisors with expertise in heatwaves and India.

THE APPALLINGLY BAD NEOCLASSICAL ECONOMICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE Professor Steve Keen, author, economist, and Distinguished Fellow of University College London's Institute for Strategy, Resilience & Security talks about how economists made their own predictions of climate change damages using three spurious methods.

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Paul Beckwith and special guest Dr. Ye Tao discuss the latest updates to the MEER project at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh

Dr. Ye Tao explains why efforts towards net zero, while essential, have the effect of reducing the global dimming that is the result of polluting particles, which is actually cooling the planet significantly: a terrifying dilemma that has been largely ignored.

Since 1988 the IPCC has been the world's leading resource on climate change science and policy recommendations. What if they were working not for the planet but against it? Kyle Kimball's research elucidates how the core function of the IPCC is not to highlight the velocity of climate change but to validate the erroneous conclusions of neoclassical economics.

Dr. Tao presents in Portugal: Dr. Ye Tao recently traveled to Evora, Portugal, to attend the annual meeting of "PROfiling the atmospheric Boundary layer at European scale (PROBE)", a European collaboration funded by the European Collaboration in Science and Technology (COST) involving scientists and meteorologists from national weather observatories of almost all 30 member countries

Dr. Ye Tao travelled to Evora, Portugal, to attend the annual meeting of "PROfiling the atmospheric Boundary layer at European scale (PROBE)", a European collaboration funded by the European Collaboration in Science and Technology (COST) involving scientists and meteorologists from national weather observatories of almost all 30 member countries.

MINERAL SUPPLY CHALLENGES TO PHASE OUR FOSSIL FUELS with Simon Michaux, Assoc. Prof. of Geometallurgy at the Geological Survey of Finland). Presentation and discussion about data that's been collected on global mineral reserves, as the world gradually moves toward renewable energy.

Dr. Ye Tao visited the Romanian Atmospheric 3D Research Observatory, a collaboration of meteorologists and physical instrument builders dedicated to researching the chemical processes and air circulation movements involving moisture, clouds, and aerosols in the atmosphere above site.

FACING OUR CLIMATE ANXIETY HEALTH CRISIS: Human responses to the global climate crisis and the earth’s current ecological state tend to span a wide range, including shock, grief denial numbness and rage. Embedded within the catastrophic risk of the climate crisis or issues of social justice, economic inequality, and cultural bias. Britt Wray shares how we can create personal practices and collaborative activities to strengthen ourselves and our communities? As requested by the speaker, this meeting was not recorded.

MARINE CLOUD BRIGHTENING: Is It Feasible? with Michael Diamond, CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research In Environmental Sciences at University of Colorado Boulder) Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow at NOAA's Chemical Studies Laboratory

Dr. Ye Tao in Cornish, NH: Dr. Ye Tao was recently featured in an online presentation hosted by the Cornish Energy Committee, where he presented the project’s creation, plans for implementation and our ongoing studies.

After watching a youtube video in which plastic bottles were converted to rope, Adam Lee wondered if this process could be useful for the production of solar reflectors. Could this waste be repurposed at scale without the use of fossil fuel energy?

Dr. Daniel Cziczo, Professor and Department Head of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences speaks about the unanticipated impacts of ‘designer’ aerosols suggested for increasing Earth’s albedo.

Dr. Ye Tao spoke at the Max Bergmann Symposium 2022