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Challenging Climate — 53 episodes
Farewell
50. Maarten Albers on the Nitrogen Crisis in the Netherlands
49. Gwynne Dyer on Intervention Earth: climate mitigation, CDR & SRM
48. Jonathan Blake and Nils Gilman on planetary governance
47. Shuchi Talati on ethics and governance of solar geoengineering
46. Ulrike Lohmann on clouds, aerosols and solar radiation modification
45. Benjamin Sovacool and Chad Baum on global trends in public perceptions of climate technologies
44. George Monbiot on environmentalism and climate activism
43. Janos Pasztor on global climate policy and geoengineering
42. David Stainforth on climate models and uncertainty
41. David Keith on Climate Systems Engineering
40. Jennifer Allan on global climate governance and the COP28 agenda
39. Greg Nemet on how solar became cheap (with Energy vs Climate)
A brief podcast review and update
38. Richard Tol on Climate Economics: the cost of carbon, geoengineering & IPCC
37. Emma Marris on our rambunctious garden: wilderness and human influence on nature
36. John Moore on the melting cryosphere and glacier geoengineering
35. Steve Smith on net zero pledges and CDR strategies & tech
34. Heleen de Coninck on the IPCC, climate tech & a just Net Zero transition
33. David Fahey on the Montreal Protocol, ozone depletion and SRM
32. Chris Stark on the UK’s Climate Change Committee
31. Ken Caldeira on politics in research and the feasibility of the energy transition
30. Andrew Revkin on climate journalism - its evolution, perils and narrative capture
29. Daniel Harrison on Marine Cloud Brightening and the RRAP
28. Erica Thompson on escaping Model Land
27. Luke Iseman on his for-profit solar geoengineering venture - Make Sunsets
26. The Anniversary Special
25. Patrick Brown on extreme weather and the obvious climate strategy
24. Glen Peters and Linda Steg on the Paris Agreement, the feasibility and psychology of the 1.5ºC target
23. Luke Kemp on defining, evaluating and managing catastrophic climate risk
22. Oliver Morton on reaching net zero, and the feasibility and politics of geoengineering
21. Ben Novak on Revive & Restore: leveraging biotechnology for de-extinction
20. Gaia Vince on Nomad Century: migration, food and geo-engineering
19. Kerry Emanuel on hurricanes and hypercanes in a warming world
18. Arunabha Ghosh on CEEW and India's environmental challenges
17. Tom Matthews on tropical glaciers and extreme heat
16. Hannah Ritchie on Our World in Data and some of the world's biggest problems
15. Dagomar Degroot on Historical Climatology and the Frigid Golden Age
14. Nils Gilman on avocado politics and climate security
13. Britt Wray on Generation Dread and the rise of eco-anxiety
12. Mark Maslin on Human Evolution and the Anthropocene
11. Jesse and Pete interview each other
10. Wake Smith on Pandora's toolbox and the feasibility of stratospheric aerosol geoengineering
9. Sir David King on science advice, climate politics, and climate repair
8. Jan Minx on the IPCC's latest report on mitigation
7. Gavin Schmidt on observing, attributing and communicating climate change
6. Elizabeth Kolbert on climate change, extinctions, and life Under a White Sky
5. Robert Lempert on climate impacts in the IPCC and deep uncertainty
4. Zion Lights on nuclear energy, technology, and climate change
3. Roger Pielke on the politics of climate change, scenarios, and extreme weather
2. Holly Buck on ending fossil fuels
1. Neal Stephenson on solar geoengineering and Termination Shock
Trailer: Launching in January 2022