When MPR News’ Climate Cast debuted in January 2013, it was one of the few regular programs to address how a warming planet could change life as we know it.
That urgency has only grown. In 2023, climate change is one of the leading issues driving political, economical and societal change.
To celebrate Climate Cast’s tenth anniversary, MPR’s chief meteorologist Paul Huttner talked to an elite panel of experts about how climate change has evolved since Climate Cast began. What does the latest science say about how fast the planet is warming now? What are the biggest climate change impacts here in Minnesota and around the world? How is public opinion adjusting? And how far have climate solutions advanced in the past ten years?
Guests:

Katharine Hayhoe is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading climate scientists. Among other things, she is a professor at Texas Tech University and the chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy.
Bernadette Woods Placky is an Emmy Award-winning meteorologist and director of Climate Central's Climate Matters, a program that offers data analyses, graphics and other reporting resources to a growing network of more than 3,000 local TV meteorologists and journalists to help them tell local climate stories.
Jason Samenow is The Washington Post's weather editor and the popular Capital Weather Gang’s chief meteorologist. 
Ed Maibach is the director of the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University. He also codirects the Climate Change in the American Mind polling project.
Jamie Alexander is the director of Drawdown Labs, which is Project Drawdown’s private sector testing ground for accelerating the adoption of climate solutions quickly, safely and equitably.
Jon Foley is the executive director of Project Drawdown, a leading resource for information and insight about climate solutions.



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