Climate Changes Everything

Episodes

1. Moving America To Moderate Beef Intake | Annie Bleveans

   Nov 12, 2024

   13m
2. Climate Changes Everything: Episode 17, The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be (Part Two)

   Swords into plowshares into bigger swords and bigger plowshares ... destruction and production, war and peace, and scale and control are the intense frenemies of the nuclear energy story. And that history now informs the world's response to (and the nuclear role in) growing global power demand,...

   Sep 24, 2023

   19m
3. Climate Changes Everything: Episode 16, The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be (Part One)

   Nuclear power was going to be the future ... until it really really really wasn't. And now, just might be again. Join us for another episode of Climate Changes Everything as we explore the amazing origins of nuclear power, the tension between productive uses like electricity and destructive uses...

   Sep 3, 2023

   17m
4. Climate Changes Everything: Episode 15, Take Me To The River (Part Three)

   A ten million ton, concrete Swiss Army knife? Yes, indeed. For all their monolithic permanence, dams and hydroelectricity are the Swiss Army knives of infrastructure and the power grid, respectively. With plenty of compromises, caveats, and questions but also opportunities for innovation,...

   Jun 25, 2023

   20m
5. Climate Changes Everything: Episode 14, Take Me To The River (Part Two)

   The seeming simplicity of a hydroelectric dam belies significant (and often surprising) complexity and compromise around climate, environment, human welfare, local and geopolitics and even the rotation of the Earth itself! Lots to consider and no easy answers, but that's why we're here for this...

   Jun 17, 2023

   18m
6. Climate Changes Everything: Episode 13, Take Me To The River (Part One)

   In this episode, we dive back into the world of electricity generation to begin our examination of hydroelectric power: from the emergence of water on Earth about four billion years ago to torrents of innovation both three thousand years and 150 years ago to today's behemoth dams around the…

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   Jun 5, 2023

   16m
7. Climate Changes Everything: Episode 12, The Greatest Generation 2.0?

   It's graduation season here in the US but the usual pomp and circumstance is matched by the stark realities of a climate-changing world. Today's graduates face unprecedented challenges in the world they inherit but, I argue, unprecedented opportunity too. How can this generation survive and…

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   May 1, 2023

   11m
8. Climate Changes Everything: Episode 11, Texas Tea

   The liquid form of ancient solar energy, oil, is seemingly embedded in everyone and everything everywhere in the world. And it plays a surprisingly complex role in the power system, both as a legacy fuel and as a backstop for reliability, resilience, and even renewable integration. Curious? Eyes...

   Apr 17, 2023

   19m
9. Climate Changes Everything: Episode 10, Green Eggs & Ham

   How do the negatives inherent in natural gas-fueled power generation compare to the positives, both at the "burn" and across the entire lifecycle of the fuel? It's a wonderfully complex question – or more accurately, set of questions with profound implications for our climate and environment,...

   Apr 5, 2023

   20m
10. Climate Changes Everything, Episode 9: The Wonder Twins Meet The Elephant In The Room

    Is natural gas actually more climate-friendly than coal? The data is not at all conclusive and that's a huge part of the problem, along with economic and regulatory incentives and a world full of infrastructure. Problems are opportunities, too -- for innovation, entrepeneurship, and advocacy.…

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    Mar 19, 2023

    23m
11. Climate Changes Everything, Episode 8: Ancient Solar Energy, Part4

    Fracking and horizontal drilling: natural gas's Wonder Twin Powers, most definitely activated. But good, bad, ugly, or maybe some combination of each? In this episode, we celebrate big positives like boosts to economic prosperity and renewable energy integration but also big negatives like water...

    Mar 1, 2023

    17m
12. Climate Changes Everything, Episode 7: Ancient Solar Energy - Part Three

    "Wonder Twin powers, activate! Form of ... hydraulic fracturing! Shape of ... horizontal drilling!" Join us as we continue our broad and deep exploration of climate-pivotal natural gas, focused on the world-changing Wonder Twins (or Evil Twins or both?) of fracking and horizontal drilling.…

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    Feb 6, 2023

    15m
13. Climate Changes Everything, Episode 6: Ancient Solar Energy - Part Two

    Natural gas is relatively new to the electricity game but has quickly emerged as both the “swing vote” in the race to decarbonize electricity and as a high-impact, multi-position player in the power system. In this episode of Climate Changes Everything, we'll learn how gas is a relatively simple...

    Jan 22, 2023

    17m
14. Climate Changes Everything, Episode 5: Ancient Solar Energy - Part One

    White hats (hooray!), black hats (boo!), and grey hats (well ...) and a lot of strong bug spray. Join us as we dig into coal and coal-fired power generation, from coal's formation 200-300 million years ago to its pivotal role in economic development and from its grim environmental past and…

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    Jan 10, 2023

    20m
15. Climate Changes Everything, Episode 4: So Many Hats

    Put it on t-shirts, on coffee mugs, on billboards and bumper stickers: electricity is the pivot for climate change ... and the hero, villain, anti-hero, and even anti-villain of the climate change story, both yesterday, today, and into the future. Curious? Intrigued? Join us for the latest…

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    Dec 19, 2022

    18m
16. Climate Changes Everything, Episode 3: Hitting The Gas

    Like the iocane powder that finished-off the otherwise immortal Vizzini in The Princess Bride, greenhouse gases are odorless, tasteless, invisible, and one of the most deadly poisons known to climate equilibrium. (Yes, I paraphrased the last part!) And full of nuance that it is both fascinating…

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    Nov 26, 2022

    21m
17. Climate Changes Everything, Episode 2: Playing With Fire

    Energy is the origin story of climate change and compromise is the story of energy. That story starts with a campfire about one million years ago. Don't worry, I brought marshmallows.

    Nov 12, 2022

    17m
18. Climate Changes Everything, Episode 1

    "Climate changes everything." That's quite a statement, let alone a title for a podcast. Whether you're a Climate Champion or just "Climate Curious", I am excited to share this journey with you -- and educate, elucidate, and (I hope) entertain along the way. Welcome to Climate Changes Everything!

    Nov 8, 2022

    12m