ClimateGenn hosted by Nick Breeze

Sep 30 2024 139 ep. 23 mins 926
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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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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

The Heating Arctic impacts on countries like UK, Canada and Scandinavia are worsening - Interview with Dr Jennifer Francis

Sep 10 2024 25 mins  
Welcome to a new series of ClimateGenn where we aim to speak with a range of global experts to be better able to understand the changes in the global climate system that are rapidly impacting the world in which we live. Although some like to use the term climate chaos - if we dive into the noise, more often than not, there are signals we can learn from. __________________ COP29 i

Massive Marine Ecosystem Crash Along Galicia’s Coast Due To Prolonged Atlantic Heatwave

Apr 22 2024 18 mins  
In this first published ClimateGenn episode for a couple of months, I want to thank subscribers for your patience. I have not been sitting idle but much more trying to digest the appalling consequences of climate heating that we are now experiencing. [Order COPOUT By Nick Breeze here] Everyday on social media, climate graphs and charts are posted with varying degrees of deep red a

Cayman Islands Youth Make case For climate survival with potential evacuation plan

Feb 28 2024 23 mins  
In this episode I am speaking with three young people from the Cayman Islands about the existential climate threat they face. They are taking their case to the British Government to ask for assistance in what could eventually lead to an evacuation plan. The Cayman Islands are a British Overseas Territory lying to the south of Cuba and the North East of Honduras. Currently an estim

'Saving Ourselves' by Dana Fisher: A policy cascade only after millions die from climate shocks!

Feb 24 2024 31 mins  
This episode with Dana R fisher is the unofficial part 2 of 3 looking at the sociological side of collective action, while we try to slow the sinking of the Titanic, to make homes on the lifeboats. The rub in all this is that Dana’s message is not dissimilar from Roger Hallam’s (unofficial part 1). She agrees that millions will likely die before the so-called Anthroshift kicks

The AMOC Tipping Point (And what we need to know!) with Dr René van Westen

Feb 16 2024 16 mins  
In this ClimateGenn Episode I speak with Dr René van Westen about the recent research he published with colleagues looking at what it would take to cause the Atlantic Meridonial Overturning Circulation (AMOC) to pass through it’s tipping point. Interpretations of this research have been published in media around the world and debated across social media. Here René gets a chanc

Dr Chris Kettle: Systems Under Stress, Trees, Forests, Food + Human and Planetary Health

Feb 10 2024 27 mins  
In this ClimateGenn episode I speak with Dr Chris Kettle. Chris is Principal Scientist within the International organization Alliance Bioversity International and CIAT, one of the global CGIAR centers for Agricultural research for development. Chris leads their work globally on restoration and the role of trees in transitioning food systems. This is a critically important episode

Dickson Goodness: Shell, clean up your mess! Call for justice in the Niger Delta.

Feb 03 2024 14 mins  
In this ClimateGenn episode I am speaking with Nigerian Climate Activist Dickson Goodness about the ongoing struggle to pressure the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, to clean up it’s colossal toxic mess left behind after nearly seven decades of oil extraction in the Niger Delta. Beyond carbon emission, the damage done has destroyed ecosystems, decimated biodivers

Roger Hallam: Can Rolling Climate Dice End The Carbon Regime?

Jan 21 2024 40 mins  
In this ClimateGenn episode I speak with Roger Hallam, original cofounder of Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil and other socially focussed organisations. He also hosts the ‘Designing The Revolution’ podcast. Roger’s communication style is often confrontational and very direct. In this interview Roger discusses where he thinks we are now and the complex sociological processe