ClimateGenn hosted by Nick Breeze

Jan 13 2025 147 ep. 23 mins 939
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Interviews with environmental / climate change experts discussing the choices we collectively face in determining what future we will shape for ourselves, future generations, and all other life within the biosphere. The podcast is produced by Nick Breeze - find out more at https://genn.cc + https://patreon.com/genncc Please subscribe to the podcast. Thank you, Nick Breeze ClimateGenn

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John D. Liu interview - To survive climate, stop destroying ecological function

Jan 13 2025 32 mins  
Welcome to this ClimateGenn episode recorded during COP29 in Baku, a conference unashamedly hijacked by the fossil fuel industry. John D. Liu is a renowned ecologist, filmmaker, and environmental advocate. Liu's later career has been dedicated to large-scale ecosystem restoration, emphasising the profound impact of natural regeneration in combating climate change. His pioneering wo

~50% chance of vital ocean circulation halting this century | AMOC: critical component of Earth’s climate

Jan 09 2025 25 mins  
As Gabriel says in the interview, if the AMOC collapses then we can expect much harsher weather in Europe (especially in UK & Ireland) as less heat is transported via the Atlantic circulation. Less heat means less moisture leading to less rain and more drought. In these conditions, food production is impossible and, with concurrent food crashes around the globe, famine is likel

Should Norway’s Equinor energy company cease new oil and gas production to avoid irreversible climate catastrophe? Ola Elvestuen MP for Oslo is not so sure.

Nov 29 2024 20 mins  
Welcome to this episode of ClimateGenn recorded at the end of COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan. The question we are putting to Norwegian MP for Oslo, Ola Elvestuen is: Should Norway’s Equinor energy company cease new oil and gas production to avoid irreversible climate catastrophe? A quick note that if you want to come with me into the COPs from COP21 Paris to COP28 in the UAE, meetin

Professor Kevin Anderson - "... taking large risks with dire consequences ..."

Nov 27 2024 36 mins  
Welcome to ClimateGenn. I recorded this interview with Professor Kevin Anderson via Zoom from Baku in the last days of COP29. Kevin provides some critical insights into how the headlines we often see reported breakdown from a numerical standpoint. Although the COPs remain an important component of our overall global diplomatic approach to this complex existential problem, there ar

Should we engineer the climate? Nick Breeze interviews Dr Heidi Sevestre and Herb Simmens

Nov 26 2024 36 mins  
In this Climategenn episode we hear two committed voices non different sides of the climate engineering debate, make their cases as to why we should or should not research geoengineering with the intention of deployment to cool the Earth. Dr Heidi Sevestre is an internationally renowned polar scientist making the case against climate engineering (also known as geoengineering) and H

Is the climate glass half full or half empty? IPCC Vice Chair Prof. Diana Ürge-Vorsatz

Nov 24 2024 21 mins  
In this interview with the Vice Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Professor Diana Ürge-Vorsatz, gives her perspective on a range of critical issues - in part presenting a glass-half-full perspective, despite so many mounting challenges. This was recorded on Saturday 16th Nov at the midway point through COP29. Since the COP has ended, countries have fi

Lessons Europe Can Learn From Africa On Adaptation - Ina-Maria Shikongo

Nov 22 2024 13 mins  
COP29 Baku series of interviews - also consider buying Nick's book, COPOUT - How governments have failed the people on climate. Available online worldwide in paperback ebook and audio formats. Key Points from Ina-Maria Shikongo: Reason for Attending COP29: Advocates for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty and opposes Namibia’s plans for offshore oil drilling amidst the cli

Nature Is Angry! A New Era Of Extreme Weather: UK Met Office Chief Meteorologist & Climate Risk Prof Join The Dots.

Nov 01 2024 24 mins  
In this ClimateGenn episode, Professor of Climate Risk at University of Newcastle, Hayley Fowler, and Professor Paul Davies, Chief Meteorologist at the UK Met Office, explain how the mega storm events we are now seeing so frequently, are generated and why they are going to get more intense and more widespread. This was recorded just after the incredible central European flooding i

Interview with XR cofounder, Gail Bradbrook: "How do we live an honourable life?"

Sep 30 2024 19 mins  
In this ClimateGenn episode I am speaking with Extinction Rebellion cofounder, Gail Bradbrook, about the role of activism today and the inner world of those taking action that can and does result in severe imprisonment, and in some countries, even death. ORDER COPOUT BY NICK BREEZE: https://genn.cc/copout-nick-breeze/ GAILS LINKS: https://www.praler.net/ https://buymeacoffee.com/

UK Gov funding Geoengineering: Between grinding rocks and a very hard place - Interview with Dr Shaun Fitzgerald

Sep 22 2024 18 mins  
Intro with clips - Prof. Jason Box (Geological Survey of Denmark & Greenland), Prof. Kevin Anderson (Tyndall Centre for Climate Research), Prof. Heidi Sevestre (AMAP, Arctic Council), Joshua Aponsem (Green Africa Youth Organization, Ghana), Anni Pokela (Operatatio Arktis, Finland) Lord Rowan Williams (Fmr. Archbishop of Canterbury). I started recording interviews on geoenginee