Climate Chat 
In this Climate Chat episode, we will discuss the link between climate change and extreme weather including hurricanes, droughts and floods with UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain. Daniel also hosts the Weather West blog.
Dr. Daniel Swain is a climate scientist in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California, Los Angeles, and holds concurrent appointments as a Research Fellow in the Capacity Center for Climate and Weather Extremes at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
Daniel studies the changing character, causes, and impacts of extreme weather and climate events on a warming planet–with a particular focus on the physical processes leading to droughts, floods, and wildfires. He holds a PhD in Earth System Science from Stanford University and a B.S. in Atmospheric Science from the University of California, Davis.
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Daniel’s UCLA web page: https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/person/daniel-swain/
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This is a superb discussion. Thank you Daniel and Dan.
Informative interview. Thank you
33:22 "When it burns it pyrocumulonymbizes."
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Fantastic and insightful discussion, thank you!
I think Dr. Daniel Swain is wonderful!
There is a limit to what we have to leave consideration for climate crisis denial
Daniel really is very very articulate and obviously informed. Thank you for a rare listen.
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When it dries, it desiccates?
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Working on the complete set:
If it rains, it pours.
If it dries, it desiccates.
If it burns, it blazes.
If it blows, it blasts.
If it hails, it bombards.
If it shines, it bleaches.
If it snows, it blizzards.
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At the beginning when talking about man made climate change. Theres been more evidence that man has changed the climate yes from agriculture. But I've seen that the bronze age had big effects on climate. The total amount of trees cut and burned to create the heat needed for forging metals took so much wood they even changed certain geographic areas for ever . Then with the discovery of coal had lots of particulates in the Atmosphere it might of caused some cooling but the more population grew the more man's changed the climate now with all the science and everthing we have accomplished. We are heating up the planet and although some people are already unable to grow food raise live stock causing mass migration and we are still letting maim stream elites having us guess if climate change is effecting and making the planet unliveable for humans and wildlife plants and micro organisms all are on the blink of extinction
Yes, the Earth has warmed slightly since the end of the "Little Ice Age", but there has been no increase in extreme weather events. No increase in droughts, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, sea ice loss, glacial melting….. the list goes on. False, hurricanes have not become stronger, and there is zero proof anything has been caused by humans. This video is a propaganda piece for the World Economic Forum. This kid is using manipulated data from compromised NOAA and NASA data! CO2 is our friend, climate alarmists are not!
It was a good party.
Great vid, great presentation, Cheers.
SRM is a result of overly linear thinking. We fundamentally can't know all of the effects. It is also another attempt to keep the modern techno-industrial society chugging along without any sacrifices (other than all the other vertebrate species on earth).
Via geo engineering screw around with the weather and create large negative local weather consequences of India or Pakistan or any nuclear power and then deal with the repercussions of their retribution.
Why haven’t we heard from Exxon’s Lee Raymond about the effects of climate change and why he discouraged the world from mitigation planning and increased use of fossil fuels? Shameful.
Excellent chat. Interesting dynamic of your trolley problem, you know that flicking the switch may save some lives, but it will kill an unknown number of others. Then its a gambol and different from your normal hypothesis that it will kill fewer.
yeah, it looks good, i have not watched it all. I lack time and it ain't saying anything new to me after 45 minutes in. thing is that the folks that do not want to hear wont listen this, so….. GLHF.
3W clay and straw beans and tortillas is Zero Carbon. When they move to the 1W, they join TheGreatHive 48 tons of CO2 per year per person. So Härris- Mäyorkäs 9 million 'climate refugees'(sic) added 485 GIGATONS of CO2. Every year more. Forever!
Thank you both very much 👍🏻
both global warming and higher levels of CO₂ would benefit the biosphere
Warming Alarmism is pseudoscience
Luv that new doctor… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLtwBSMVx3M&ab_channel=movitmovit
Forest management…, there's a word for something you plant, knowing that it will be dead in a few years…, I forget the word…there are no more forests. The vegetations is beyond half dead, it's a terminal cancer, not a forest. It is vegetation destined to die in a few years…, can't remember that word…
Thanks for the discussion-interview with Daniel. It is the same around the world for sure. As a New Zealander I can say we are a very windy country irrespective of climate chaos. Winds of 30Kph to 80Kph and more aren't unusual. The most recent cyclone-hurricane was Gabriel in Feb 23. Both the Pacific and Great Southern Ocean are warming and staying above average between 1º and perhaps 2º for months on end around the coast, and the cause of mass fish death and migration of whales. Gabriel formed from 2 atmospheric rivers to the north of Auckland which combined and fell from the skies as a single event. I believe there was around a 20percent increase in the amount of water in the atmosphere. Auckland is 36º Latitude south about the equivalent of Tunis. Successive governments here are effectively going 180º in the wrong direction and causing our emissions to rise and do not care one jot it would seem. The political anti-climate rhetoric of the present regime is verging on hysterical. As an ex-colony of Britain I consider New Zealand is not controlled by anyone who lives in New Zealand but by overseas investors of capital, often multinational corporations. There has to be a strong link to the climate and environment in the latter sentence that resonates around the globe.
Save the South Asian Monsoon
DR K F SOCCER S-P-C KNOWS THAT
THEY ARE ALL CONNECTED
IT IS THE HISTORY AND THE SCIENCE OF THE PLANET'S 50 YEAR CYCLE
IF YOU CAN UNDERSTAND IT THEN ALL THE QUESTIONS WILL BE ANSWERED
IT IS A 50 YEAR CYCLE
2012 TO 2035 BACK 50 YEARS
1960 TO 1985 BACK 50 YEARS
1910 TO 1935 BACK 50 YEARS
1860 TO 1885 BACK 50 YEARS
1810 TO 1835 BACK 50 YEAR
EVERY 50 YEARS
=MAJOR VOLCANIC-SMOG ERUPTIONS DAILY AND MAJOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES OUTBREAKS
THE EARTH IS RELEASING THE 25-30 KILOTONS OF SURFACE WATER RETAINED BY THE CORE OF THE EARTH AND NOT ONLY THE EARTH HEATS UP SO DOES THE ENTIRE ATMOSPHERE AROUND THE ENTRE WORLD
AND THE ATMOSPHERE WILL COOL THE ENTIRE WORLD AT THE SAME TIME
MINI ICE AGE FOR 2-5 YEARS
DR K F SOCCER S-P-C KNOWS THAT
WHY I AM SURPRISED YOU DO NOT ?
DR K F SOCCER S-P-C KNOWS THAT
IT WORKS TO FOR EVERY 50 YEARS
THE EARTH IS CLOSED UP
1985 TO 2011
1935 TO 1960
1885 TO 1910
YOU GET IT BOTH CYCLE ARE 50 YEAR CYCLES
DR K F SOCCER S-P-C KNOWS THAT
Everyone should be listening to Daniel Swain right now; if you are not then you don't really know what is going on.
Daniel has such a pleasant demeanor as he talks about how all the young people are going to be dealing with awful mega storms for the rest of their lives.
In a high C02 greenhouse world there are processes that begin to stop the planet from going full runaway greenhouse effect like Venus. More rain and more C02 = more plants = more sequestration. If we slow down photosynthesis by blocking out some sunlight as well as keep emitting C02 and chopping down forests we could destroy this planet for real. Not just extinctions but a completely dead planet.. The rate of change is way faster than even the end permian. The point is it takes a long time for balancing to get started so inhibiting it is a very bad idea.
The area of impervious surface is also significantly increased any urban place.
Great interview. Carbon pricing! You don't hear much about that currently.
Vapour pressure deficit, had to look that up. Thanks a lot
WE ARE NOT ON THE BRINK OF ANYTHING. The same alteration to the Sub Saharan climate which promoted the growth of the desert is that which also reduces the cloud mass of the equitorial Atlantic. This affecting how much solar energy aka heat is absorbed and transported by ocean currents polewards. The same region of the Atlantic subject to the Sub Saharan dominent weather system, African Easterly Waves (AEWs), is from where hurricanes germinate. The trade winds and Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) ensures these African and Atlantic conditions carry westward into the Pacific and Indian Ocean arenas.
So why did it all change? How can one event send ripples round the planet which can affect virtually everything?
Look to Viste and Sorteberg 2013 – Moisture Import to the Ethiopian Highlands: there the keremt storms form, which evolve westwards into the massive AEW system. Yet humans have interfeared with one of the atmospheric rivers which create these atmospheric distrubences which form the first domino in a global chain reaction. The 4,000 m3/s of moisture evaporated from the pre 1900 July to October lower Nile flood is the missing link in this so called climate crisis…….. just by replacing this one component we can reestablish the equitorial solar reflective cloud mass, which can allow us to not just to rebalence the planet's solar heat budget, but that we can with relative ease control much of the global meteorological systems………
No tipping point – just plain and simple meteorology.
There is no evidence whatsoever that hurricanes in the Atlantic or the Pacific are getting worse or becoming more frequent.
All forest fire data shows a precipitous decline for almost a hundred years.
Flooding is caused by the bullseye effect and 24/7 media which is happy to shove every single flood across the globe in your face.
May I play this discussion on my volunteer, community radio show on WGDR, in central VT?