Join Darragh Wynne and Ellen Hegarty over the course of 7 episodes as they ask how our experience of COVID can help better prepare us for climate change.

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In the opening episode, hosts Darragh Wynne and Ellen Hegarty explain the basic premise of the series: we can learn a lot from our experience of COVID to better understand and deal with the climate crisis.

Episode 1 focuses on the concept of a timelag; the delay between actions occurring and seeing the consequences of those actions.

With COVID, it takes a few weeks between transmission of the virus and a peak in deaths. With climate change, it will be decades and centuries before we see the impacts of the emissions we have already pumped into the atmosphere. All the more reason to act now!

Join Darragh and Ellen as they chat about science. It's been central in understanding and tackling COVID and lots of us are more scientifically literate as a result. So this episode looks at how our understanding of COVID science can help us to better understand climate science.

Ellen and Darragh make a few recommendations of where else to go to if you want to learn more about climate science:

BBC Christmas Lectures 2020

https://www.rigb.org//christmas-lectures/watch?video-type=videos&video-year=2020

NASA website:

https://climate.nasa.gov/

NASA for kids:

https://climatekids.nasa.gov/

Climate Allies Podcast Ep 1 with John Gibbons https://open.spotify.com/episode/7e8mj4kQJBy064wYPmIzGW?si=LuknJ0ofRb6kLKxqguGttQ