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KUT Considers is an occasional live discussion and exploration of topics and issues that are important to Austin. Events are recorded and later air on KUT News.

Steps that could mitigate the effects of climate change in your neighborhoods, parks, and backyards

KUT Considers: Climate Change and You is a live discussion with Andrea DeLong-Amaya of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, arborist Roy Johnson from St. Edward's University, landscape architect Jennifer Orr of Studio Balcones, and John Hart Asher host Austin PBS’ "The Central Texas Gardener." Moderated by Mose Buchele. Recorded November 14, 2023, at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.

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What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet. 

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