Den kommande hettan

En stor del av vår planet är på väg att bli fysiskt obeboelig för den mänskliga arten. Att bo långt norrut kommer inte att skydda oss från hettan. Vad kan vi göra?

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Våra utsläpp har värmt jorden till 1,2 grader över normaltemperatur och vi är på stadig kurs mot två, tre och kanske fyra grader. Vad händer när termostaten skruvas upp? Hur mycket klarar människokroppen av? Varför kan luftkonditionering vara en dödsfälla? Och när börjar den mänskliga civilisationen att kollapsa?

P3 Dystopia går till klimatkrisens kärna och tar reda på vad vi måste veta när världen värms upp. Vi upptäcker underskattade hot men ser också ljus i mörkret.

Producent och programledare: Viktor Hariz
Programledare: Torill Kornfeldt

Medverkande

• Elfatih Eltahir - Professor i hydrologi och miljöteknik vid MIT

• Karin Lundgren-Kownacki - utredare på SMHI:s kunskapscentrum för klimatanpassning

• Brian Stone - professor i stadsplanering vid Georgia Tech

• Ruth Michaelson - Mellanösternkorrespondent för bland annat The Guardian

• Mark Lynas - författare, klimataktivist och rådgivare åt Climate Vulnerable Forum

Artiklar

• Värmeböljors påverkan på samhällets säkerhet (MSB, 2012)

• Händelsescenario värmebölja (MSB, 2020)

• Heat Waves, the New Normal: Summertime Temperature Extremes Will Impact Animals, Ecosystems, and Human Communities - Jonathan Stillman (Physiology, 2019)

• A Ferocious Heat in Delhi - Nilanjana Roy (NYROB, 2019)

• Värmens påverkan på samhället (MSB, 2015)

• Take a nap - James Meek (LRB, 2003)

• Resisting Climate Reality - Bill McKibben (NYROB, 2011)

• 130 Degrees - Bill McKibben (NYROB, 2020)

• Burning Down the House - Alan Weisman (NYROB, 2019)

• Warmer, Warmer - John Lanchester (LRB, 2007)

• How can we live with it? - Thomas Jones (LRB, 2013)

• The Four Degrees - Paul Kingsnorth (LRB, 2014)

• Summer Simmer - Tom Vanderbilt (LRB, 2002)

• Increasing trends in regional heatwaves - S. E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick & S. C. Lewis (Nature Communications, 2020)

• Heat Waves in the Age of Climate Change: Longer, More Frequent and More Dangerous - Kendra Pierre-Louis (NyT, 2019)

• Billions Could Live in Extreme Heat Zones Within Decades, Study Finds - Henry Fountain (NyT, 2020)

• Halfway to boiling: the city at 50C - Jonathan Watts and Elle Hunt (The Guardian, 2018)

• Climate change to cause humid heatwaves that will kill even healthy people - Damian Carrington (The Guardian, 2017)

• Global risk of deadly heat - Camilo Mora et. al. (Nature Climate Change, 2017)

• Extreme heatwaves could push Gulf climate beyond human endurance, study shows - Damian Carrington (The Guardian, 2015)

• Most Deadly of the Natural Disasters: The Heat Wave - Tara Bahrampour (NyT, 2002)

• Climate change: How hot cities could be in 2050 (BBC, 2019)

• Future of the human climate niche - Chi Xu et. al. (PNAS, 2020)

• Baghdad’s record heat offers glimpse of world’s climate change future - Louisa Loveluck, Chris Mooney (Washington Post, 2020)

• Förbered för värmestress i vården - Karin Lundgren-Kownacki et. al. (Kommunalarbetaren, 2020)

• 2020 on track to be one of three warmest years on record (WMO, 2020)

• Kuwait's inferno: how will the world's hottest city survive climate change? - Ruth Michaelson (The Guardian, 2017)

• Extreme temperatures and mortality in Kuwait: Who is vulnerable? - Barrak Alahmad et. al. (Science of the Total Environment, 2020)

• In superheated Arab world, there are AC haves and have-nots - Taylor Luck (CSM, 2020)

• The Future of Cooling (IEA, 2018)

• Facing unbearable heat, Qatar has begun to air-condition the outdoors - Steven Mufson (Washington Post, 2019)

• The air conditioning trap: how cold air is heating the world - Stephen Buranyi (The Guardian, 2019)

• The people living in the hottest places on the planet are the least likely to have air conditioners - Zoë Schlanger (Quartz, 2018)

• How modern emissions compare to ancient, extinction-level events - Kate Wheeling (NPR, 2020)

• I can’t stand this December heat, but it has nothing to do with global warming - Boris Johnson (The Telegraph, 2015)

• 2020 May Be The Hottest Year On Record. Here's The Damage It Did (NPR, 2020)

• When will we reach 2°C? - Ed Hawkins (Climate Lab, 2014)

Klipp

• Climate Change in US Cities: Managing A Rising Tide of Extreme Heat - Brian Stone (Clinton School Speakers, 2015)

• With Record Temperature in 4 Cities, This Is The Worst Heatwave Ever (NDTV, 2019)

• Heatwave in India kills over a dozen civilians (France24, 2019)

• Heatwave: red alert in France as 45C expected in the south (euronews, 2019)

• Iraqis brave the heat with no power (AP, 2020)

• Uppsalaborna om värmen - Stina Zetterberg (SR, 2018)

• Boris Johnson has been 'sucked into the conformist political view' on climate change (Sky News Australia, 2020)

• Boris Johnson: Climate change is a challenge 'far worse than coronavirus' (The Telegraph, 2020)

• Why a 'feverish' Arctic will affect everyone on the globe (PBS NewsHour, 2020)

• Record temperature heatwave in Europe: The new normal? (DW News, 2019)

• Heat wave leaves more than 800 people dead in Pakistan (CBS News, 2015)

• Paris hits 109 degrees in record-breaking heat wave (CBS News, 2019)

• Arctic Siberian town hit with record heatwave (Al Jazeera, 2020)

• Climate change means heatwaves will only get worse (France24, 2019)

• UN calls on humanity to end ‘war on nature’ (Guardian News, 2020)

• Disasters - extreme heat kills thousands in Paris (BBC, 2007)

• Heatwave 2018 explained (BBC, 2018)

• CARTA: Unique Features of Human Skin– Sweating Thermoregulation and Water Balance (UCTV, 2015)

• Ringhalsverket informationsfilm (Vattenfall, 80-tal)

Musik

• Ben Prunty - Lost Ship (Explore)

• Sophie Harris - Crooked Durham

• Cliff Martinez - Drizzled Him Good

• Kid Loco - Theme from The Graffiti Artist

• Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Empty Places (reprise)

• Vince Pope - Coming Down

• Lorn - Unraveled

• Cliff Martinez - I Got Time

• Vince Pope - Fake

• Cliff Martinez - Not Leaving This Circus

• Michael McCann - The Mole

• Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Clue One

• Marcus Bagala - Cascading Bells

• Paul Leonard Morgan - Anderson's Theme

• Vince Pope - Who Are You?

• Marcus Bagala - Frets: problem after problem

• Calexico - Untitled III - Remix by two lone swordsmen

• Marcus Bagala - Boxes: autumnal moping

• Cliff Martinez - I Can't Dig Her Out

• Cliff Martinez - Fire It Up Again

• Marcus Bagala - Wires: Tangerines

• Jon Brion - You Learn

• Sophie Harris - Exhumation

• Clint Mansell - Finish It (feat. Chronos Quartet)

• Vince Pope - Touching

• Marcus Bagala - Frets: Too Too

• Jon Brion - Cubes

• Helios - Even Today

• Vince Pope - A New Home

• Sophie Harris - Driving to Prison

• Smash Mouth - All Star