This session of the radio show shares my conversation with Ted McIntyre, Franklin resident and climate activist via the Zoom conference bridge Thursday, April 6, 2023.
In this episode we covered the following topics:
- Steve & Ted exchange greetings
- Steve reads a recent poem he wrote partly in response to the IPCC report
- Healy appoints new DPU
- Oil hides behind whales to oppose wind
- How to be involved locally
This discussion continues our journey understanding the MA roadmap toward net zero and while it helps me “make sense of climate”, we hope it helps with your understanding as well.
If you have climate questions or Franklin specific climate questions, send them in and we’ll try to answer them in a future session.
Our recording runs about 49 minutes. Let’s listen to my conversation with Ted
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Links to articles referenced
Link to the Jorie Graham article that got me to read my own poem
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/05/jorie-graham-poet-to-2040-book/673493/
Steve’s poem “This Branch” https://www.quietpoet.com/2023/03/this-branch.html
What does IPCC mean for MA? https://blog.greenenergyconsumers.org/blog/the-latest-ipcc-report-what-it-means-for-massachusetts-rhode-island
Healy appoints new DPU
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/17/science/with-new-commissioners-healey-aims-reshape-an-agency-seen-critical-climate-reforms/
Oil uses astroturf groups to oppose wind https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/04/05/metro/whale-tales/
“Ministry for the Future” book link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_for_the_Future
Miles Howard links as mentioned
https://massclimateaction.podbean.com/e/day-lighting-a-river-is-good-for-the-city-and-the-soul-the-climate-minute/
https://massclimateaction.podbean.com/e/urban-hiking-on-the-frontiers-of-climate-change-the-climate-minute/
https://www.bostontrails.org/about.html
Justin Bean link https://www.justincbean.com/
Grid impact of Green hydrogen
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/634abba43f1e2f4dfd5e07dc/t/6400f4e00845db41f84ddc36/1677784292826/GridImpactofGreenHydrogen+-+3-6-2023.pdf
rewilding https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27032023/rewilding-animals-carbon-storage/
See the page that collects all the “Making Sense of Climate” episodes -> https://www.franklinmatters.org/2022/02/making-sense-of-climate-collection.html
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The music for the intro and exit was provided by Michael Clark and the group "East of Shirley". The piece is titled "Ernesto, manana" c. Michael Clark & Tintype Tunes, 2008 and used with their permission.
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