Episode Summary: This episode is an excerpt from a previous episode about Carbon Almanac's contributors' own experiences of signs that the climate is changing

Today’s episode is another conversation on Climate and Weather with contributors from all over the world. They discuss what factors seem to have changed over their lifetimes.  Ecology of animals, agriculture and water usage and wine crops producing twice a year are all discussed from real-life experience.  

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Featuring Carbon Almanac Contributors Leekei Tang, Steve Heatherington, Tania Marien and Olabanji Stephen.

Leekei is a fashion business founder, a business coach, an international development expert and podcaster from Paris, France. 

From a  beautiful valley in Wales, UK, Steve is a Podcast Coach, Producer and Alpaca Shepherd. Steve is fascinated by the ideas of regeneration beyond sustainability and is still a biologist at heart. 

Tania is from southern California, France, she is a podcaster and independent environmental education professional with experience connecting educators and bringing attention to the work of freelance professionals. 

Olabanji is from Lagos Nigeria. He’s a Creative Director and visual designer that helps brands gain clarity, deliver meaningful experiences and build tribes through Design & Strategy. He founded Jorney - a community designed to help people stay productive, accountable, and do their best work.

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The CarbonSessions Podcast is produced and edited by Leekei Tang, Steve Heatherington and Rob Slater.

It's variable cause you've got complicated interactions cause

it's the amount of water, , as well as the amount of sun, , and the

overall background temperature.

And some of the plants seem to respond to one of those things more than others.

And then you've got the birds and sometimes the birds are going to go.

We've got some cuckoos around at the moment, which, which

are here, but they've traveled.

So they've actually come from, from Africa, they've

flown up and over and across.

And, uh, they probably come, come past you leaky.

They probably waved as they came past you.

Um, uh, I, I traveled across and now in the Southwest.

, area in the UK, the dates are going to vary a bit.

And I heard, uh, an interesting, , an account of a place in Oxford,

uh, Oxfordshire, where there an area of Woodland where

there've been monitoring birds.

Uh, it was a great tits in particular, but it was, it was since 1947.

I think it was certainly the 1940s.

There'd be monitoring every year when these birds are laying the first day.

In this.

So they've got nest boxes and various things they're able to

monitor and they'd been watching.

And this year is compared to 19.

Forties is like 28 days.

So it's warmer.

It's everything is coming earlier and that's that's 28 days.

Really?

That's that's,

That's quite a shift, isn't it?

That you can't see that year by year.

It might be a little bit different, a little bit here, a little bit there, but

because you've got that long-term record, you can see that there's a definite shift.

Yeah, there is a website, the project called bud burst

that monitors how the changes in plants when they're flowering.

Bud and all that it's over over many years time.

Yeah.

That's that study that, yeah, that track that it's this big citizen

science project, but I'm sure there's one for ornithologist as

well for the birders and all that.

Yeah.

The climate is really changing.

and it's a big deal, because the way we experience everything

is it's just changing.

The way we experience seasons are changing the way we experience food, the way we

experience, , . Um, a, I read a blog post that says climate is what you expect.

And weather is what you get.

What we expect is delivered to us and what we get typically, and if we

expect something and we don't get.

It \ it just changes the way we do things on a whole new skill is just like sleep.

When you have a constant time, you sleep, you, your body is trained

to understand that that's when you sleep and you have a time that you

wake up and so seasons are like that.

We expect fruit.

At certain times, we expect, the holidays at certain times we expect many of these

things, the form, the, the experiences, our human experiences in general.

And so when these things are changing without we expect them that they

are going to change it, it just alters our experience as humans.

Um, I mean on different levels and, and that really is a big.

Um, and I think a little people are experiencing it differently.

Just like what we're seeing here.

Um, the climate is changing.

Yeah.

And, and I think that our lives has been, as you said, our lives have been organized

around a certain expectation of whether, like, you know, we talk a lot about,

adaptation and the coping mechanism.

So many things needs to change.

Like you just look at the built environment, look at the

buildings that houses were living.

I mean, it just crazy if the climate changes and it is changing.

And, the houses that we've been living in and I live in a very old house it's

been built like a hundred years ago.

And, , does that mean that we need to turn it down and build a new one?

It just doesn't make sense.

Yeah.

Uh, uh, I think that there's a lot of, I think that we're going to do a lot more,

we probably will do a lot more than we're anticipating because on one hand, we're

saying we need to protect the ecosystem from the changes that we're experiencing.

So that.

We don't express this changes as, as much.

And so there's the carbon Almanac that says, Hey, read, here's how to

protect the earth or preserve the ecosystem that we have right now.

And we're doing that on one hand.

But I think on the other hand, we also have to.

I don't know, find ways to be ready for what is already changing,

because this is going to be gradual.

If where we're going to make progress to ensure that we don't experience

too many more changes, but right now we're already experiencing changes and

chances are, we will experience will continue to experience them for awhile.

Maybe before things take a turn.

And so I think we're, it's a two-sided thing here.

If I don't know if that makes any sense

Yeah, a lot of the memories we've got again.

The strongest ones go back to when we were

children.

and when we were younger, we would kind of remember things.

Do you remember those really long, hot summers?

Uh, when

we weren't at school, we had the school, vacations holidays, and I

think, well, yeah, but that's, what is that to do with my memory?

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