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'We need to know what's real:' AccuWeather founder discusses his new book at Davos
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1/31/2024
Dr. Joel Myers spoke about his new book, "Invisible Iceberg: When Climate and Weather Shaped History," as well as his lifelong passion for meteorology.
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Well, I've always been fascinated by the weather and the impact it's had on humanity and also
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in history, and so it ties in with my life's work.
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And there's so many stories to tell, and I thought many people would be interested in
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reading the stories and seeing how it ties in, of course, with climate, which is a major
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focus of so much interest and concern today.
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Give me some sense of the lessons for today.
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Well, obviously, this book's about what happened in history and how so important weather and
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climate was in determining the course and the pathway that got us here.
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And now we're dealing with the real challenge of warming, a lot of it being caused by human
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activities.
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And so we need to know what's real and make real decisions based on the data.
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And there's a lot of talk today about the warming, but what is it going to mean specifically?
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That's what's not getting enough attention.
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So what AccuWeather's doing now is providing answers as to what the warming is going to
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mean for particular places and in terms of parameters and information that will really
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help businesses make and governments make policy decisions around the changing climate.
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What made you fall in love with meteorology?
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Well, when I was three years old, I fell in love with snow growing up in Philadelphia.
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And by the time I was seven, I knew I wanted to be a weather forecaster.
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And when I was 11, my grandmother bought me a diary and I kept writing down the weather
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conditions and I just knew I wanted to be a weather forecaster.
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And I also wanted to combine that burning desire to be a forecaster with my entrepreneurial
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spirit.
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And I've been blessed that AccuWeather is the result of that.
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We've had such a positive impact globally.
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We've saved over 10,000 lives, saved companies tens of billions of dollars, and now have
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an opportunity to contribute in the climate space.
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So you're now Davos man.
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You've been to Davos.
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Any advice for the Davos crowd from what you've heard this week?
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Well, I think a lot of the brilliant people here are talking about the right issues, but
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I think there's more we can do specifically, as I mentioned, to focus on what the warming
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is going to mean, where it's going to be more critical than elsewhere.
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So we're planning the right way rather than just talking about it in general, because
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it's going to be a huge challenge.
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The demand for energy keeps increasing and AI is going to exacerbate that.
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So how do we meet that?
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That's a challenge.
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There's definitely a lot of people working on that, but we can't stop it.
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What already exists, the CO2 and methane in the atmosphere, it continues to increase.
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So how do we understand what that's going to mean and then develop policies and allow
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companies and governments to plan specifically?
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I don't see enough of that.
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