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Gwynne Dyer -- Geopolitics in a Hotter World
Historian and journalist Gwynne Dyer gives a long UBC talk on how climate change will reshape international politics. He covers food, borders, refugees and the possibility of unilateral geoengineering by affected nations.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as a sobering, still-relevant look at the geopolitical consequences of warming, including why official reports lag the data.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- The University of British Columbia
- Topic
- climate geopolitics
- Format
- lecture
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 4
- HN mentions in dataset
- 11
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Oh but this gets better! This is a great dissertation on how the GeoPolitics will play this little game out: [VIDEO] - by Gwynne Dyer
artur_makly on Hacker News · 2018-10
In Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040surprisingly there are low-tech ways to reverse the heating. watch Gwynne Dyer‘s closing arguments: [VIDEO]
artur_makly on Hacker News · 2018-05
In We’ve Passed the Carbon Tipping PointDr. Gwynne Dyer gave a talk, "Geopolitics in a Hotter World" – Sept. 2010 > So when the Hadley Centre put these numbers out they were incorporating (which the IPCC does not) the early impacts of positive feedbacks, as well as just how much carbon …
carapace on Hacker News · 2019-08
In Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change
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