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In the last episode, we briefly introduced "climate change doomers" and some of their misleading claims. In this episode, I talk about despa...
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In the last episode, we briefly introduced "climate change doomers" and some of their misleading claims. In this episode, I talk about despa...

We're going there. In this episode, I discuss why civilization is not going to imminently collapse due to climate change, explain why doomis...

A new episode released from behind the Patreon paywall. This episode, we'll review and discuss some of the issues raised by Tim Wu's The Att...

In this episode, we will continue our analysis of Direct Air Capture and conclude the series on negative emissions - crucial component of de...

Direct Air Capture - machines that suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. Could this be the solution to a scaleable negative emissions i...

Hi all! This is a slightly special bonus episode. Some years ago I had plans for another series "Black Mirror IRL", which was going to be a...

What are "nature-based solutions" to climate change? Can we restore the ecosystems that we've destroyed? And how can restoring mangroves hel...

"Give me a tanker full of iron, and I'll give you a new Ice Age." It might sound like something Hank Scorpio would say, but this episode wil...

How could grinding up rocks and sprinkling the dust over vast areas help to combat climate change? In this episode, we deal with "enhanced w...

Mention carbon capture, and the refrain you'll often hear is "why invent a machine that captures CO2? We already have one - it's called a tr...

N/B: Owing to a ridiculously hectic schedule until the end of the year, episodes will continue to be released on a fortnightly basis until f...

In this episode, we get into some of the specific technologies that might be called upon to deliver negative emissions at scale. Specificall...

In this episode, we discuss whether the promises that some new technology - like negative emissions - will come along and "solve climate cha...

Increasing levels of negative emissions are envisioned by models in climate-change scenarios that are compatible with the Paris Agreements....

Negative emissions technologies (NETs), also called carbon dioxide removal (CDR), are seen by many as an increasingly essential part of clim...

The book club returns, with a two-part review and overview of anthropologist Jason Hickel's book "The Divide", about global inequality, its...

In this episode, we discuss the ongoing battle throughout the 1930s and 1940s between those who believed in a steady-state Universe, and tho...

To close out this series of news episodes, we discuss the depressing failure of carbon capture and storage projects in Australia, as well as...

In this episode of Thermonuclear Takes, we tackle a couple of recent climate-related news stories - the "tipping point" carbon flux measurem...

Updates on the Softbank Vision Fund and the sad fate of Pepper the robot.
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