Warming Signs
Warming Signs with Kait Parker is a podcast that tackles pressing environmental issues with wit and expertise. She’ll go beyond the headlines to inspire both action and hope. Join her every other Tuesday at noon.
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 22 minutes
- Episodes
- 43
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2020
Why Climate Communicators Are Turning Talking Points into Punchlines
Join Kait Parker as she interviews Beth Osnes and Maxwell Boykoff about their research on humor and climate change.
00:20:45 |
Tue 19 May 2020
The Lessons Climate Change Can Teach us About Pandemics
Join Kait for a chat with Dr. Jon Foley of Project Drawdown, and see how we created what he calls a “biological storm” that unleashed a pandemic on the planet’s population.
00:23:33 |
Tue 21 Apr 2020
Do People Have to be Sick for Our Planet to be Healthy?
Join me for a conversation with Dr. Jacqueline Klopp, and hear her take on whether these recent environmental gains can become permanent.
00:18:15 |
Tue 07 Apr 2020
Climate Change, COVID-19 & Outbreaks in a Warming World
This week Dr. Mona Sarfaty and Kait delve into the relationship between infectious disease and climate change, and how the response to COVID-19 can offer lessons to those charged with protecting our …
00:20:12 |
Tue 24 Mar 2020
High School Students Race to Rescue a Disappearing Coast
Some school districts across the country have kept climate change off the curriculum, but for one high school in New Orleans, it’s the focus. New Harmony, a first-of-a-kind charter school, teaches c…
00:13:48 |
Tue 10 Mar 2020
What Melting Glaciers Mean for Our Food Supply
When glaciers melt, they trigger a domino-effect that could one day end at your dinner plate. Join Kait for a chat with Dr. Ted Scambos, a senior research scientist at Earth Science Observation Cente…
00:30:32 |
Tue 25 Feb 2020
Economy of Change: How Poor Communities are Affected by a Warming World
Some sections of our population bear more of the burden in a warming world, and it’s not just the folks who live on the coast. Join Kait for a discussion with Catherine Flowers, a senior fellow at th…
00:19:12 |
Tue 11 Feb 2020
Trouble Brewing for Beer, Thanks to Climate Change
Could your brew be in jeopardy? Made from hops and barley, beer is at risk of becoming more difficult to make due to changing weather patterns and water scarcity. Can new ideas and innovation save yo…
00:18:08 |
Tue 28 Jan 2020
How a Warming World Could Leave 30% of Us Underwater
Join Kait for a chat with Dr. Ayana Johnson. She’s a marine biologist who specializes in helping coastal cities become resilient. What she says about the future of our coastlines might have you thin…
00:31:06 |
Tue 14 Jan 2020
How Your Climate Actions Are Being Used Against You
Who is really behind the push to stop flying in the name of climate change? Or to stop using straws and to stop eating meat? Dr. Michael Mann argues that both individual action and institutional chan…
00:22:59 |
Tue 31 Dec 2019
Can Cutting Out Meat Curb Climate Change?
Meatless options are popping up everywhere you look. Some are touting them as a game-changer in a warming world. Join Kait for a chat with Dr. Jason Rowntree, an agricultural expert who specializes i…
00:33:44 |
Tue 17 Dec 2019
How Winter Weather Is Changing in a Warming World
How are disappearing sea ice and changes in the Arctic influencing winter weather in the U.S.? Join Kait for a chat with Dr. Judah Cohen, director of seasonal forecasting at Atmospheric and Environme…
00:20:59 |
Tue 03 Dec 2019
Freed from ‘Whale Jail,’ But Not Out of Danger
Join Kait for a chat with Charles Vinick of the Whale Sanctuary Project and oceanographic explorer Jean-Michel Cousteau, son of Jacques Cousteau, for a chat about the future the freed whales face in …
00:23:04 |
Tue 19 Nov 2019
Why Big Cats Are Suffering Big Losses
Lions have always captured our imaginations. Join Kait for chat with Dr. Amy Dickman, a conservation biologist at Oxford University, and find out why an animal with no natural predator faces an uphil…
00:20:37 |
Tue 05 Nov 2019
How the Big Apple’s Taking a Bite Out of Carbon Emissions
New York City is a leader in the global effort to cut carbon emissions. Join Kait for a chat with the man who makes it all possible. Daniel Zarrilli is New York’s Chief Climate Policy Advisor.
00:18:53 |
Tue 22 Oct 2019
The Difference Youth Climate Activists Hope to Make
Join Kait Parker as she talks to Alexandria Villasenor, a leader of the Youth Climate Strike last month in New York, about what is driving the movement.
00:15:40 |
Tue 08 Oct 2019
Health, Humanity and Hunger in a Warming World
Join Kait from Mashable’s Social Good Summit, as she interviews Chef Jose Andres, who just returned from feeding Hurricane Dorian survivors and first responders in the Bahamas, and Dr. Maria Neira of…
00:23:47 |
Tue 24 Sep 2019
What Your Kids are Learning About Climate Change
The climate is changing and, in most classrooms, science lessons are changing right along with it. A growing number of states have adopted standards that require science curriculums to include climat…
00:28:17 |
Tue 10 Sep 2019
The Climate Clichés That Are Nothing But Hot Air
When it comes to denying the devastating effects of climate change, scientists hear the same lines over and over.
00:29:51 |
Tue 27 Aug 2019
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