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The Big Story
"brick smith" Discussed on The Big Story
"I'm fatma fitting in for jordan heath. rawlings this is the big story. Brick smith is the president of the canadian institute for climate choice. Herrick thanks for being here. It's pleasure so what was your first reaction when you read the report while i mean. Let's let's just acknowledge that this thing is massive minutes thousands of pages. Hundreds of scientists around the world have been working on this thing for months of fourteen. Thousand studies were incorporated and summarized and synthesized in this reports enormous amount of information. This is the most significant update to what we know about climate in in many years over half a decade. There's a lot of stuff now does not surprising me for anybody. That's been keeping track of climate change science and the the notion that warming is getting is happening more quickly than expected. would not be news. I think one of the more significant aspects of the report is the unequivocal linkage. Based on the best available science that recent extreme weather events are being driven by climate change in the idc has never been that explicit before. And of course there's this whole new discipline called attribution science that's That's quite new. This new kind of science is makes it possible for us to say yeah. This particular heatwave is being driven by climate change that is a. That's a very new Development in the climate change debate. And i think very powerful because long story short what this report does is. It brings climate change home for people. Climate change is a health concern. Climate change is a is an issue of cultural survival for for many peoples around the world. So it's interesting. You used the word unequivocal. Because that's the word that is stood out to me as well In the report it comes up. Time and time again You know certainty of human activity causing the warming and the extreme weather events that we're seeing was undeniable in this report. Wondered why this report is getting more attention than a previous iterations. Is it because it comes. Like on the back of some extreme events that we're still experiencing or is it just how as you mentioned how comprehensive it is a big part of it is the climate change. Science has gotten a lot better over the last decade and since the last big ipcc report. It wasn't that long ago. The climate climate scientists when when they talked about climate change. How does it a thirty thousand foot level. And they talked about The extent of global warming and they weren't really able to drill down and make predictions for specific locations around the world about what warming would look like in your neighborhood. The report had any number of analyses showing specific climate change impacts in specific places around the world. And you know you're quite right you know. We're we're coming off with summer where climate change literally came to the doorstep of british columbians in terms of Incredible heat waves of people across europe. Who are doing with intense. Flooding people in greece who had to be evacuated because of intense fires and it just goes on and on so this report in terms of its granular conclusions in terms of its In terms of its tangible conclusions. Aligns with the lived experience of people around the world and people around the world this summer. Let's take a step forward and talk about the reactions to the report because at the end of the day report is just a report until someone does something with it right so you know. We had Environment minister jonathan wilkinson. Put out a statement in which he just. You know commended. The authors of the report reiterated that you know climate change is unquestionable that. It's impacting canada. That it's going to play a part in the negotiations at cop. Twenty six in glasgow in a couple of months and that canada is taking aggressive climate action to avoid the worst impacts of climate change very soon after though there was a news report about how wilkinson was defending the government's purchase of the trans mountain pipeline. Saying that the government needed the money. That's quite contradictory right. Look what what's your take on. How the government responded to the report. Yesterday i think that's It was kinda lost in the in the in the stampede to summer but it is true in the last few months our country has taken a real significant steps forward in terms of getting his act together on climate so last month finally parliament approved the net zero capability akzo moving towards net zero carbon emissions is now the law of the land in this country. We now have A target an improved target with respect to electrification of vehicles on the list goes on so i kind of feel like you know as canadians. We spent a lot of the last few years arguing about whether we should embark on the carbon transition trip at all We finally have a all-party consensus that the action is necessary. We have we now have parties appro different parties approaching that question from their different perspectives. But i actually welcome the fact that that finally like most countries around europe like many countries around the world. We haven't all party consensus now that we need to get a move on with respect to significant carbon reductions as quickly as possible. So there's a lot of work to do to figuring how to do that. We are organization. The canadian institute for climate choices has done a number of big studies recently. We've concluded that Getting to net zero in candidate is possible. But then it's gonna win. It's going to involve a suite of measures getting serious about building efficiency. Getting serious about electrifying. Everything and then making sure. That sources of electricity are not emitting.
The Big Story
"brick smith" Discussed on The Big Story
"I'm fatma fitting in for jordan heath. rawlings this is the big story. Brick smith is the president of the canadian institute for climate choice. Herrick thanks for being here. It's pleasure so what was your first reaction when you read the report while i mean. Let's let's just acknowledge that this thing is massive minutes thousands of pages. Hundreds of scientists around the world have been working on this thing for the last many months of fourteen. Thousand studies were incorporated and summarized and synthesized in this reports enormous amount of information. This is the most significant update to what we know about climate in in many years over half a decade. There's a lot of stuff now does not surprising me for anybody. That's been keeping track of climate change science and the the notion that warming is getting is happening more quickly than expected. would not be news. I think one of the more significant aspects of the report is the unequivocal linkage. Based on the best available science that recent extreme weather events are being driven by climate change in the idc has never been that explicit before. And of course there's this whole new discipline called attribution science that's That's quite new. This new kind of science is makes it possible for us to say yeah. This particular heatwave is being driven by climate change that is a. That's a very new Development in the climate change debate. And i think very powerful because long story short what this report does is. It brings climate change home for people. Climate change is a health concern.
The Big Story
How the IPCC Report Is About More Than Just Climate Change
"I'm fatma fitting in for jordan heath. rawlings this is the big story. Brick smith is the president of the canadian institute for climate choice. Herrick thanks for being here. It's pleasure so what was your first reaction when you read the report while i mean. Let's let's just acknowledge that this thing is massive minutes thousands of pages. Hundreds of scientists around the world have been working on this thing for the last many months of fourteen. Thousand studies were incorporated and summarized and synthesized in this reports enormous amount of information. This is the most significant update to what we know about climate in in many years over half a decade. There's a lot of stuff now does not surprising me for anybody. That's been keeping track of climate change science and the the notion that warming is getting is happening more quickly than expected. would not be news. I think one of the more significant aspects of the report is the unequivocal linkage. Based on the best available science that recent extreme weather events are being driven by climate change in the idc has never been that explicit before. And of course there's this whole new discipline called attribution science that's That's quite new. This new kind of science is makes it possible for us to say yeah. This particular heatwave is being driven by climate change that is a. That's a very new Development in the climate change debate. And i think very powerful because long story short what this report does is. It brings climate change home for people. Climate change is a health concern.
Questlove Supreme
"brick smith" Discussed on Questlove Supreme
"Again we here for brick smith and i co hosted the show this next year. The rick dees no wrecks regular your riot wrecks. Forgot about that okay. Until later later yet right now then rex. I did second year and then the third year they were trying to decide who who i should work with on the third year and then they decided that that that they would just go with me. And so then. I i was. I was with a solid goal for those next three years. As the only years i remember years i watch because you were children. Yeah oh what was the scheduling into. Because i mean because they were celebrating the charts. Was it all year rounder. was it like seasonal. Yeah it was. It was seasonal way we do. The shows We would do. We would take every other week and We will go with the charts in what was big at that time and we would. We would take monday. Tuesday and wednesday and then the following week off i go out and work yu-lian i would go out and work and then come back and we do feature the next. The songs that were popular then. Yeah so but it was basically just. It was a good experience in in doing met. Enjoy that a lot because like you said. Everybody came on and did the shows. And you know you're your seat. I remember when madonna came on. And i remember prince being there and that was that was I don't. I didn't get a chance to really spend any time with grants. Because he's kinda it was kinda shy but still it was. It was a lot of fun in the dancers. of course. we're just amazing. I was going to say how nice was dr sell. Wayne sorta like a unicorn in bet you know probably next to zero song on soul train. Dr phil wayne was probably the most popular dancer on solid gold. But he never heard of anything. I've earned in the presser. Anything since like this one move is beautiful long hair on the show. 'em n i. I didn't hear much afterwards. Like was she. You know like out there. She sanssouci and i don't. I haven't seen in quite a while. But she was. She was to work with and she was just beautiful. Just watch. I mean her. Dancing was just amazing and it was i. I enjoyed the experience. I enjoyed the too. Because i got a chance to be on the show quite a few times myself. Right those advantages agreement. We would sing. Duets album should also be noted. That casper the even. Even though jeffrey daniels sorta gets the glory for teacher michael jackson how to do the move it was. It was actually casper. Who was a dancer on solid gold. That really you know taught. Michael be extent aesthetics on how to do. He's also i didn't dancers. This is a wealth of knowledge right now this moment right now for this specific moment so also wanted to know. I know that you guys Went went through To your gospel phase shortly thereafter in the mid to late eighties and the nineties. I recall i believe you guys As the fifth dimension reunited what was what was that process like in reuniting the group and how was it. There is a special moment moment. I think that would that says it all burst time. We got back together and we we started talking about. Do this reunion tour. And we said well first of all. Let's see where we are and so we hadn't sung any harmonies together in in many years. And of course you know we've gotten away from that so we were the harmonies so so well we're act. We got around the piano. Said let's start out with up and way which is unison. And everybody.
Retropod
How Lego Took Over the Toy World
"In a year then goodyear here's a clue those tires well you'll never see them in traffic it here's another it's notorious for causing theme two souls of bare feet all over the world still guessing it's Lego accompanied that started as a tiny manufacturer of wooden toys that built itself into an empire of plastic locks that have provided kids with millions of hours of fun though why is it that adults are always the ones to step up anyway. The story of legos starts in the nineteen thirties in Denmark with a master carpenter named Ole Kirk Christianson with the Great Depression in full swing Christianson desperately needed a way to earn money so he used his skill with would to start a company that made all sorts of things step ladders ironing boards and an entirely new line of wooden toys yoyos trucks duck on wheels Christians and called his company Lego a Portmanteau of the Danish words for play and well according to David C Robinson author of a history of the lego company Christianson ran the business all on his own while raising four sons survived the Great Depression it survived the German invasion of Denmark in even survived fire that destroyed its factory including all of the blueprints for new toys in the one thousand nine hundred he's Lego began producing what it called automatic binding bricks from wood but plastic completely new idea a British inventor already developed the stackable plastic cubes with studs on top but Christianson modified the concept by sharpening the edges and in the one thousand nine hundred fifty s keep them the formal name Lego bricks the six were a hard sell they weren't sturdy they didn't stick together in the hollow plastic cubes just did not sell then in one thousand nine hundred fifty eight got a patent for an idea the company had been working on for years a new study and to design that let the bricks snap together without coming apart Christianson died the same year leaving his son to take over the company so he never had the chance to see what happened next eight total revolution in children's toys after watching children play with the bricks oh executives realized their future success was not about the brick itself but about the world's it could help create and so began expanding its offerings with the brick as the cornerstone in the one thousand nine hundred sixties the company's Brick Smith's invented go we'll around brick with a rubber tire in the nineteen seventies they were miniature figures to populate the Lego towns then castles with nights kings and Queens astronauts came soon after by this time toymakers around the world were trying to replicate goes success when the last of legos patents for its bricks expired in the late nineteen eighty s the company tried to fight back against imposters and failed but it hardly mattered lego experienced double digit growth in sales with control of over eighty percent of the toy instruction and then in the nineteen ninety s Lego found another way to solidify its place the imaginations of kids and their parents Lucasfilm was about to release its first Prequel to the original star wars gives their wanted to license a set of Star Wars toys to come out at the same time at first like executives were wary they value it their companies independence and worried about aligning themselves with a franchise that contained violence but the company surveyed parents and they didn't mind the partnership so the result was the phantom menace Lego line then someone else came along Harry Potter the company's path has always been upwards though in the early two thousands After expanding rapidly into other businesses like those sales sank and they were forced to shut down several theme parks and kill off poor performing product lines. Lego went back to basics those lovable stackable bricks just recently they released a new set