Summary: I met <a href="http://www.iac.ethz.ch/people-iac/person-detail.html?persid=54778" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sonia Seneviratne</a> from ETH Zürich at a climate conference way back in 2013. This was not long after she served as a coordinating lead author of the now-famous<a href="http://www.ipcc.ch/report/srex/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> IPCC SREX report</a>, which lit a spark under the field of climate extremes. Sonia tells me the back story of becoming a CLA, the ongoing challenges of quantifying changes in extremes — droughts in particular, and the need to communicate seemingly obvious climate science to a broader audience. We talk through some of the most pressing issues in modern climate science: our chances of staying below 1.5 °C of warming without climate engineering, <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-017-0057-5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">climate engineering with land-based albedo modifications</a>, and the kinds of societal transformations needed for radical mitigation. And hanging out your laundry in Switzerland. Like climate, it’s complicated.<br> Music: Lullaby for Democracy <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CC BY-NC 4.0</a> and Rotisserie Graveyard <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CC BY 4.0</a> by <a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Doctor_Turtle/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Doctor Turtle</a>.<br> <br> <a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=http%3A%2F%2Fforecastpod.org%2Findex.php%2F2018%2F02%2F07%2Fsonia-seneviratne-droughts-extremes-ipcc-laundry-switzerland%2F&via=MWClimateSci" class="twitter-share-button">Tweet</a><br>
