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Elon Musk v Mishal Husain = Frost v Nixon
The BBC presenter-turned-Bloomberg editor made news. It has largely been ignored.
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Richard Delevan
Geoengineer Once, Measure Twice
It's better to know than not to know. Kelly Wanser of SilverLining warns against the alternative.
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Richard Delevan
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Kelly Wanser
58:18
Climate "Realism" = Giving Up
Jeremy Wallace from SAIS discusses his viral Heatmap takedown of the Climate Realism initiative from the Council on Foreign Relations, "abundance…
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Richard Delevan
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Jeremy Wallace
50:22
Does apartheid South Africa offer a warning against fossil fuel "indoctrination"?
Charles Perry talks to us about his journey from Mandela's freedom to BP's first renewables attempt to working with Al Gore, and where we go from here.
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Richard Delevan
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Charles Perry
31:17
State of Climate Tech 2025
We borrowed sound from Climate Impact's Flagship Summit. Plus Carey Lovelace, founder of Visions2030; and Belinda Perriman, co-founder of ConvertWell.
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Richard Delevan
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Belinda Perriman
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The Other Chris Hayes
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Steven Meersman
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Kelly Wanser
1:07:20
Tony Blair. Climate vampire. Will Morgan McSweeney choose the Renfield Option?
Decoding the UK local elections, Reform, and Tony Blair's intervention, and what Labour will do, with Holly Brazier-Tope of Green Alliance, climate…
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Richard Delevan
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Dave Vetter
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Adam Bell
1:05:35
Is Britain in a climate tailspin?
After the UK Climate Change Committee said the country is failing to prepare for the effects of climate change, we speak to Climate Majority Project's…
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Richard Delevan
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Rupert Read
48:43
Iberian Blackout: One-off Fiesta or Climate Warning?
Climate and energy analyst Tom Raftery tells us his first-hand experience near Seville of the blackout, its aftermath, and whether there are lessons we…
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Richard Delevan
36:22
What Does Elon Musk Want? Abundance. It Makes Strange Bedfellows.
Ezra Klein, AOC, David Sirota, and Aaron Bastani are arguably on the same side as Musk, and that's awkward. Imagination Deficit Disorder, Part II…
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Richard Delevan
Imagination Deficit Disorder
Elon Musk and Peter Thiel think they know the future and how to win it. They can't both be right.
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Richard Delevan
Survive the Trumpocene: w Dana R Fisher
Author of 'Saving Ourselves - Climate Shocks to Climate Action' returns to the show.
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Richard Delevan
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Dana R Fisher
33:17
Solar Geoengineering: Climate Chemo or Ozempic?
Is it time to break glass? Or bury the idea completely? Researchers from Harvard and U Chicago weigh in.
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Richard Delevan
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Pete Irvine
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Josh Horton
53:35
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