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I’m excited to announce a new project called Climate on the Edge. It’s a podcast about what’s at the true frontier of climate change intervention. Curious about cloud seeding? Solar radiation modification? Towing glaciers? Fertilizing the ocean? Rewilding the arctic? Space based energy? The next gen of carbon removal? 👇 - Episode 1: Dispatches from the edge https://lnkd.in/gPMFaGS3 - Episode 2: What's at the edge of carbon removal? with Nikki Batchelor, XPRIZE Carbon Removal and Jack Andreasen, Breakthrough Energy https://lnkd.in/g52xtKqP - Episode 3: Cutting contrails for climate with Marc Shapiro, Breakthrough Energy https://lnkd.in/gUkucQEj The climate math tells us that even with a robust energy transition, we’re still likely to surpass safe global temperature thresholds, which means we either need to do more... or else. At the same time, within labs and situation rooms all around the world, insiders are exploring frontier, potentially game-changing climate interventions. Climate on the Edge is a space for hosting these conversations publicly to send attention and (one day) dollars to the work driving it all forward. We believe there’s still space to be hopeful and even excited, and want to share the depression-busting magic of science, technology and human discovery with you. Saving the world can be thrilling and fun, and we're gathering up everyone else who agrees. Thank you to our awesome Climate on the Edge team: Asa Kamer, Mehrad Yaghmai, Brian Ames, Kirsti Chou. Special thanks to Tommy Leep. https://lnkd.in/gH6yqnTw

In the latest #podcast from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, PSD Chemist Radu Custelcean talks about a serendipitous discovery that led to a new method of capturing carbon directly from the air. If you have a minute, check out this episode of The Sound of Science. 🎧 https://spoti.fi/3AgUX9y

This episode of the IMEG podcast is another in a series of discussions with IMEG’s market leaders. In this segment, Jack Kusek discusses water and wastewater. Jack also discusses his motivation for the work he specializes in. “The fact that we can help people on St. Thomas and other communities so that they have new facilities, cleaner water to drink, and wastewater plants that aren’t polluting the streams—just seeing how those improvements benefit people and how thankful they are, that’s motivation enough for me.” https://lnkd.in/d8zYfpir #civilengineering #engineeringpodcast #podcast

I made it: I finally got to keep my resolution to start listening to the Cleaning Up Podcast by Michael Liebreich… well, not all of it of course (there are 188 episodes so far, with number 189 coming out today!), but the latest three episodes, just to start tipping my toe in what Michael calls “#leadership in a time of #climatechange” 🎧 I had seen this podcast recommended several times by people I admire and I now understand why, and feel like I want to reinforce this recommendation. That’s why I liked these three episodes: - First of all, the podcast is entertaining! Not always easy for a novice like myself, but still at the right level of intellectual challenge without becoming overly complex 🧠 - The guests are clear experts and authorities in the domains they discuss: no non-sense and plenty of references to double check 📖 - The host is great at challenging his guests with thought-provoking questions and statements, while at the same time keeping the conversation tone light and enjoyable 🤝 - It deals with how leadership in climate tech in all its facets can (hopefully?) save our planet, and this of course matters practically to all humanity 🌏 I am putting here the link to my favorite so far: https://lnkd.in/dwebmArY —> a conversation with Rory Sutherland about how #behaviouralscience and psychology can be leveraged to drive meaningful change about climate action (despite its catchy title, most of the episode is NOT about #fossilfuels, but rather about human behaviour 😉) And I really look forward to the next episodes (even though I have such a backlog of episodes to listen to that it could keep me busy for quite a while 😅), to keep educating myself about the thousands faces of #technology applied to saving our world 🌍

A podcast in your ears, a spring in your step: summer is the perfect season for on-the-go, snackable digital communication products. On a bike or a train, under a tree or a beach umbrella, take a walk through ancient and contemporary Rome with Peter Koh and yours truly. Did you know that the word school comes from the Latin 'schola', a time dedicated to enjoyable learning experiences? Yet, for many young learners in Rome, old schools that are too hot in summer, too cold in winter tamper with the pleasure of learning. In this episode of our Climate Solutions podcast, you will discover how the partnership between the European Investment Bank (EIB) and Roma Capitale makes schools more modern and sustainable, slashing costs and emissions. This is a true investment in local communities, especially in the outskirts of the city: children will get to attend more welcoming, climate-friendly schools, where also parents can meet and build meaningful networks. Did I mention that we also talk about gelati? Give it a listen to find out more 🎙️👇🏻

+++ What we do for the next 10 years, will define how we and our kids will live for the next hundreds of years. +++ >> What will you do in the next 10 years??? Here a great podcast worth listening to: https://lnkd.in/daz6GV5s

With elections occurring around the world, the need to articulate the personal value and benefits to individuals in relation to our response to the climate emergency are neatly laid out in this informative podcast. Definitely one for the Monday morning commute! I particularly like the power associated with writing a letter to future generations as a mechanism for increasing pro environmental behaviors.   https://lnkd.in/e-B4SsEa

Podcast on state of GHG sensing in 2024. Attacking the problem from all possible angles, from in situ sensing to orbit with GHGSAT (Stephane Germain): https://lnkd.in/g2Pq4sqQ

Want to know how diatoms and climate change but don't have time to read the article by Ali Bin Shahid ? Thanks to some new tech, now you can listen to a podcast discussing the article. -I would love to know what you think of the podcast! Please let me know if you would like to hear more discussions on other articles. #diatoms #climatechange

Highly recommended listen! *  Land areas are typically warming twice as fast as the average global temperature * Atmospheric CO2 levels are now at their highest for at least 3 million years, but probably as high as 15 million years * 22 July 2024 was the hottest day ever recorded on Earth, probably the hottest in the last 120,000 years * Approx. one quarter of anthropogenic CO2 emissionsis taken up by the land biosphere, one quarter by the oceans, and only half of the emissions goes for increasing the atmospheric CO2 concentration * The increase in CO2 that we are causing now will continue for tens of thousands of years, probably hundreds of thousands of years * The Earth system is absorbing 90% of the heat/warming caused by anthropogenic emissions, almost all of it in the oceans * If we held all greenhouse gases constant from now on, there would be more warming because the oceans would catch up * Further warming would basically stop around the same year as we reach zero emissions That´s the beauty of Zero! But ... * If we stop emitting, it will stay warm for tens of thousands of years. It won't get any warmer, but it won't go back to what it was for hundreds of thousands of years * If China, the US and Europe implement climate policies, that is already a big part of the solution Don't give up, make a positive difference! One of the highlights of this episode, at least for me: The people who are really worried about migration should really be big fans of climate action [...] all the right-wing parties in Europe should be fighting like hell against climate change, but they deny it because these are not people who are looking for real solutions to problems, unfortunately. Again, what a - unfortunately - relevant episode of great Nate Hagens with Stefan Rahmstorf