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Hannah Ritchie – Clearing the Air: 50 Questions and Answers About Climate

    How To Academy | 20 January 2026 | 1h 10m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
    Interview with Hannah Ritchie about her book Clearing the Air: 50 Questions and Answers About Climate. Discusses the rapid, cost-competitive rise of renewables and electric vehicles and the efficiency gains of electrification, individual versus systemic change, the role of AI in efficiency, and the environmental impact of dietary shifts. Argues that while 1.5°C warming is likely unattainable, a 2°C target remains a realistic “stretch goal” if society prioritizes agency and hope.

    Peter Brannen – The Story of Carbon Dioxide is the Story of Everything

      Tides of History | 23 January 2025 | 0h 42m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
      Interview with Peter Brannen about his book The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything: How Carbon Dioxide Made Our World. Argues that CO2 is fundamental to Earth’s history, not merely an environmental pollutant. Uses geological time scales to underscore how radical the current human experiment is, introducing CO2 into the atmosphere 100 times faster than all volcanoes combined, rapidly reversing 50 million years of subtle climate change in decades.

      Hannah Ritchie – Clearing the Air

        Ben Yeoh Chats | 26 October 2025 | 1h 15m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
        Interview with Hannah Ritchie about her book Clearing the Air: 50 Questions and Answers About Climate. Discusses why honesty builds trust in climate science; why the 1.5 °C target is likely out of reach (and why that’s not the end of hope); China’s paradoxical role as both the world’s largest emitter and clean-tech powerhouse; how abundance, not austerity, could define the next phase of climate progress; how to manage renewable energy variability and mineral demand; why “net zero” may need a more realistic framing; and how she balances optimism with realism.

        Deborah Gordon – No Standard Oil

          New Books in Environmental Studies | 19 April 2022 | 0h 46m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
          Interview with Deborah Gordon about her book No Standard Oil: Managing Abundant Petroleum in a Warming World. Explains that different sources of oil and gas have vastly different climate impacts. Advocates transparent reporting and pricing carbon based on its emissions intensity.

          Quico Toro on How to Save the Climate

          The Good Fight | 31 May 2025 | 0h 48m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
          Interview with Quico Toro about his Substack One Percent Brighter. Discusses outdated ideas within environmentalism, why we need to decarbonize – and how technology can save us.

          It’s my policy not to post links to episodes with part of the content behind a paywall. This is a special case. I went looking for an episode with Toro to publicise his writing on climate change, which deserves a huge audience, for the way he frames scale and cost, to focus on the few interventions that can fix the problem.

          Nat Bullard on Decarbonization

            Plain English with Derek Thompson | 7 February 2025 | 1h 07m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
            Interview with Nat Bullard about his 2025 Decarbonization presentation. Discusses the state of energy and decarbonization; coal, oil, wood, and natural gas; the history of nuclear versus solar in America; the solar and battery revolution of the 21st century; the political barriers to solar growth; the rise of BYD in China; the flatlining of Tesla’s growth; and the future of energy technology.

            See also the 2024 episode.

            Casey Handmer – Mining the Air

              Multiverses | 11 May 2023 | 1h 31m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
              Interview with Casey Handmer about his firm Terraform Industries and its work pioneering air-to-fuel technology to synthesise methane and hydrocarbons from the air aiming to displace the transport of carbon from the crust to the atmosphere.

              Check out Casey Handmer’s blog.

              Can Solar Power and Battery Tech Save the World from Climate Change?

                Plain English with Derek Thompson | 9 February 2024 | 0h 59m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
                Interview with Nat Bullard about his presentation Decarbonization: Stocks and flows, abundance and scarcity, net zero. Discusses the twin pillars of the global clean energy revolution (solar and storage), how these two technologies have consistently beat expert predictions, how they’re reshaping energy generation around the world, and what stands in the way of a clean energy future based around sunshine and batteries.