Climate Conversations

By: Robert McLean
Listen for free

  • Summary

  • A continuous conversation about climate change - news, views and interviews.
    Robert McLean
    Show More Show Less
Philosophy Social Sciences
Show More Show Less
activate_Holiday_promo_in_buybox_DT_T2
Episodes
  • Climate News: The scientific dilemma, is it toilet paper and potatoes or research - it has to be both says Professor Matt King

    Climate News: The scientific dilemma, is it toilet paper and potatoes or research - it has to be both says Professor Matt King
    Nov 21 2024
    Hundreds of researchers and scientists have gathered in Hobart this week for what they're calling an "emergency" summit on Antarctica. It comes as the federal government defends its level of funding for scientific research in the region but it's resisting calls to fund a second ice-breaker vessel to help carry it out - listen to Professor Matt King, the director of the Australian Research Council's Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science during an interview on the ABC Breakfast program - "'Emergency' Antarctica summit in Hobart amid funding uncertainty"; "Green Lab roundtables to confront urgent climate adaptation challenges" - Green Lab DirectorA/Prof Anita Foerster (pictured); "The maps that show the tree-free heat islands in your city"; "Opinion How to save the climate in a second Trump term"; "Richard Flanagan knocks back $100k literature prize over sponsor’s fossil fuel links"; "Climate summit host faces backlash over support for fossil fuels, crackdown on dissent"; "Trump Wants to Kill the E.V. Tax Credit. Here’s What to Know."; "Episode 6: Phil Jones" - Micromobility Report; "If You’re Sure How the Next Four Years Will Play Out, I Promise: You’re Wrong"; "12 big changes Trump could make to climate and environment policy"; "How Trump 2.0 might affect the wildfire crisis: ‘The harms will be more lasting’"; "Drought Status Update for the Northeast"; "Ladies and Gentlemen, the Northeast Is Burning"; "Solar energy is powering public landscaping in Oak Park, Illinois"; "Cop29: ‘We’re here for life and death reasons,’ says ex-climate minister of Pakistan"; "Biden marks his climate legacy during Amazon visit, asserting 'nobody' can reverse it"; "Coalition against fossil fuel subsidies expands but misses initial targets"; "Why children like me have a right to be heard at the People’s Blockade of the Newcastle coal port"; "Record-setting bomb cyclone, intense as a hurricane, lashes Northwest"; "Construction is the world’s biggest carbon emitter, yet Labour still refuses to tackle it"; "EU zones in on $200B to $300B target for global climate fund"; "Could Russia be prosecuted for environmental war crimes?"; "New Calls for Reform Emerge as COP29 Negotiations Struggle"; "Planet-warming pollution is growing at the fastest rate in history, scientists say"; "Cop29 live: Slashing methane emissions is ‘our emergency brake’, UN says – as it happened"; "Hundreds of lobbyists for industrial farming attend Cop29 climate summit"; "The Guardian environment pledge 2024"; "At COP29, Climate ‘Optimism Has Been Dampened"; "Where Glaciers Melt, the Rivers Run Red"; "UN climate talks no longer fit for purpose, say experts"; "NZ footballer leads fight against Fifa’s fossil fuels"; "COP29: Small island states ‘feel abandoned’ as climate talks grind on"; "Spain's royals return to flood-hit region weeks after being pelted with mud"; "This seaside town will power thousands of homes with waves"; "
    Show More Show Less
    46 mins
  • Climate News: 'Relax' Festival allows access to two 'ordinary people' -Dave and Wynan

    Climate News: 'Relax' Festival allows access to two 'ordinary people' -Dave and Wynan
    Nov 20 2024

    The recent "Relax Festival" in Tatura organized by "Tatura Transition Towns" was highly successful, on a comparative basis.

    More than 100 people came to the town's Stuart Mock Place to enjoy free music; a free barbecue cooked on induction hotplates powered by an electric car; learn about composting; watch a karate display; book in to either see a rather special garden and visit another home and learn about making biochar; join the GV Gamers Guild to enjoy play without electric power; talk with John Laing about the damage our way of living is causing to other life forms, learn about insects (watch them crawl up your arm) and hear about the valuable work of Landcare; hear from Hilary Grigg about how we should be dealing with our waste; and get som home energy tips and ideas from Terry Court of "Zero Carbon Tatrura".

    The Melbourne-based "Bicycle Network" was represented, and the idea of using an electric bike was illustrated through the display of a privately owned electric trike and a folding electric bike from Shepparton's Leading Edge Cycles.

    Climate Conversations also attended and talked with two 'ordinary" people - Dave Wischer (pictured) from Rushworth and Wynan Dollar from Tatura.

    Dave is concerned about the impact of climate change and encouraged others to watch "Nature Bats Last" by Professor Guy McPherson.
    Show More Show Less
    13 mins
  • Climate News: To avoid global catastophe and the reversing of human progress we must bend the curve away from fossil fuels - Johan Rockström

    Climate News: To avoid global catastophe and the reversing of human progress we must bend the curve away from fossil fuels - Johan Rockström
    Nov 17 2024
    Professor Dr Johan Rockström (pictured) from the Potsdam Univerity fears both environmental catastrophe and catastrophe reversal of human progress if we don't bend the curve away from fossil fuels. "A Kennedy daughter offers a hand to Pacific nations threatened by climate change"; "Foodprint Melbourne: Building the Resilience of Melbourne’s Food System"; "Poorer nations need $1tn a year by 2030 in climate finance, top economists find"; "Argentina withdraws negotiators from Cop29 summit"; "‘Minimal progress’ made this year on curbing global heating, report finds"; "What Is Project 2025, and Why Did Trump Distance Himself From It During the Campaign?"; "‘Fossil Fuels Are Still Winning’: Global Emissions Head for a Record"; "Global Warming Made Helene More Menacing, Researchers Say"; "What are tariffs?"; "Proposal at UN climate talks to tax business-class flights, crypto and plastics"; "From Chile and Taiwan via Glasgow, youth call for climate justice"; "The all-male Cop29 committee is a big step backwards for climate"; "The Tug-of-War on This Climate Super Pollutant Has Big Implications for the Future"; "What the Earth’s Recent Heat Uptick Could Mean for the Climate Fight"; "Climate Advocacy Groups Say They’re Ready for Trump 2.0"; "Oil Industry Asks Trump to Repeal Major Climate Policies"; "Cop summits ‘no longer fit for purpose’, say leading climate policy experts"; "Climate Change Is Losing Its Grip on Our Politics"; "Albanese unlikely to announce new climate targets until after federal election"; "To Protect the Ozone Layer and Slow Global Warming, Fertilizers Must Be Deployed More Efficiently, UN Says"; "‘COP Fatigue’: Experts Warn That Size and Spectacle of Global Climate Summit Is Hindering Progress"; "As New York Congestion Pricing Turns a Corner, Experts Point to Lessons From London"; "Good To Go? Decarbonising Travel After the Pandemic"; "The case for COPs (even this one)"; "Did people have to fly to COP29? Private jet use soared, but one group got to Baku overland"; "Picture an all-seeing eye scanning the dying Earth – and then lighting on our ‘solutions’ at Cop29"; "At UN climate talks, nations big and small get chance to bear witness to climate change"; "COP29 climate finance in numbers: How much is needed and where is it coming from?"; "Katharine Hayhoe’s Post-Election Advice: Fight Fear, Embrace Hope and Work Together"; "In a Parched US, Human-Triggered Wildfires Are Poised to Thrive"; "Severe drought puts nearly half a million children at risk in Amazon – report"; "How will offshore wind fare under a second Trump term?"; "A new generation of cheaper batteries is sweeping the EV industry"; "Global Warming Made Helene More Menacing, Researchers Say"; "If our hot water heaters ran off daytime solar, we would slash emissions and soak up cheap energy".
    Show More Show Less
    29 mins

What listeners say about Climate Conversations

Average customer ratings

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Audible.co.uk reviews

Amazon reviews
No Reviews are Available