Dr Patrick Brown is the Co-director of the Climate & Energy group at the Breakthrough Institute and Adjunct lecturer in Energy Policy & Climate at Johns Hopkins University. In this episode, we discuss Patrick’s expertise on the economic impacts of extreme weather, and unpack trends and attributable risk. We then venture into a broader scope based on his essay ‘The obvious climate strategy nobody will talk about’, which carries the rest of the discussion into climate targets and bias in climate communication.

Chapters:
00:00 Start
02:44 Introduction and background
06:11 What is the point of learning climate science?
07:36 Extreme weather: Intensifying trends, detection, and attributable risk
18:13 Balancing the 'risk equation'
20:44 The obvious climate strategy nobody will talk about
26:37 Are temperature targets arbitrary? What’s the difference between 1.5ºC and 3.0ºC?
31:08 The discount rate of climate change
34:30 Heat deaths versus cold deaths
41:00 Bias in climate communication and academia
45:13 What gives you optimism?

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