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Climate 201: Climate Doomism (II)

In the last episode, we briefly introduced "climate change doomers" and some of their misleading...

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Climate 201: Climate Doomism (I)

We're going there. In this episode, I discuss why civilization is not going to imminently...

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UNLOCKED: Book Club: Tim Wu's The Attention Merchants

A new episode released from behind the Patreon paywall. This episode, we'll review and discuss...

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Climate 201 NETS XI: Direct Air Capture, p2 and NETS conclusion

In this episode, we will continue our analysis of Direct Air Capture and conclude the series on...

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Climate 201 NETS X: Direct Air Capture, part 1

Direct Air Capture - machines that suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. Could this be the...

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BONUS: Black Mirror IRL pilot - Be Right Back

Hi all! This is a slightly special bonus episode. Some years ago I had plans for another series...

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Climate 201: NETS VII: Ecosystem Restoration and Mangroves

What are "nature-based solutions" to climate change? Can we restore the ecosystems that we've...

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Climate 201, NETS IX: Ocean Iron Fertilization

"Give me a tanker full of iron, and I'll give you a new Ice Age." It might sound like something...

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Climate 201: NETS VIII: Enhanced Weathering

How could grinding up rocks and sprinkling the dust over vast areas help to combat climate...

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Climate201 NETS VI: Planting Trees and Afforestation

Mention carbon capture, and the refrain you'll often hear is "why invent a machine that captures...

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Climate 201: NETS V: Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage

N/B: Owing to a ridiculously hectic schedule until the end of the year, episodes will continue to...

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Climate 201: Negative Emissions IV: Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS)

In this episode, we get into some of the specific technologies that might be called upon to...

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Climate 201, Negative Emissions III: Technological Promises, or Prevarications

In this episode, we discuss whether the promises that some new technology - like negative...

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Climate 201: Negative Emissions (II): We'll Always Have Paris?

Increasing levels of negative emissions are envisioned by models in climate-change scenarios that...

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Climate 201: Negative Emissions I: The Last Thing We Should Be Talking About?

Negative emissions technologies (NETs), also called carbon dioxide removal (CDR), are seen by...

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Book Club: Jason Hickel's The Divide, Part II

The book club returns, with a two-part review and overview of anthropologist Jason Hickel's book...

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Book Club: Jason Hickel's The Divide, Part I: The Origins of Global Inequality

The book club returns, with a two-part review and overview of anthropologist Jason Hickel's book...

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Cosmology, VII: Cosmological Contradictions

In this episode, we discuss the ongoing battle throughout the 1930s and 1940s between those who...

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TT: Climate, CCS Struggles as Adaptation Stalls

To close out this series of news episodes, we discuss the depressing failure of carbon capture...

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Thermonuclear Takes: Amazon Carbon Stocks and Global Green Recovery Progress Update

In this episode of Thermonuclear Takes, we tackle a couple of recent climate-related news stories...

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