Can Coronavirus cool our climate?
13:36 | How will global civilisation bounce back? We might actually have a once in a lifetime opportunity to reshape the way we run our societies.
Global Dimming Paradox: Are we facing an abrupt temperature spike?
13:55 | As entire countries are getting shut down around the world, with the rapid reduction of emissions that this causes, is the global dimming paradox about to be tested?
Antarctica: What happens if the ‘Doomsday’ Glacier collapses?
12:40 | Antarctica is home to some of the world’s largest ice sheets and glaciers. Now a new US / UK research collaboration has discovered that the rate of melt is even worse than scientists feared.
Bezos and Gates: What’s their impact on the Climate Crisis?
16:20 | How do Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, and the companies they founded, measure up in their green credentials?
Greenwashing. Is it still a thing?
14:41 | Is GREENWASHING even still a thing or have big corporations finally started to tell us the truth?
Carbon Negative : Can we get there?
18:18 | Carbon Negative is the bigger braver sibling of Carbon Neutral. But with coal still generating 40% of the world’s electricity, and 98% of the world’s vehicles still running internal combustion engines, how will we achieve the goal?
Blue Carbon. An invisible time bomb
10:47 | As the oceans absorb heat and sea levels rise, another less well known store of Carbon is being threatened, with potentially disastrous consequences.
Coal: Can we kick our addiction?
17:21 | Are we reducing our global coal consumption and moving to alternative sources of power quickly enough?
Thorium. Is it the future of clean energy?
16:52 | Thorium as a fuel for Nuclear Power has been an aspirational goal since the 1960’s, but despite its apparent advantages, Thorium has never been adopted. This week we look at why.
What’s really driving the bush fires down under?
14:48 | Bush fires have been a natural part of the Australian ecosystem for at least 400,000 years, but whenever human beings get involved we see a spike in the data record.
Solar Farm Grid power at night! How do they do that?
11:41 | Balancing grid voltage using solar farms during the night time is exactly what a new trial in the South of England achieved recently. We take a look at how this seemingly impossible feat was achieved.
Review of 2019 : Climate In Focus
14:32 | As yet another record breaking year of extreme weather events draws to a close, we take a look back at just a handful of examples from 2019.
Greenland is melting seven times faster than 30 years ago
11:59 | There’s been debate and dispute in recent years over whether Greenland, and Antarctica, are genuinely losing ice mass. But now a group of scientists has combined and consolidated their data to reach a solid, trustworthy result.
Liquid Hydrogen Jet Aircraft : A Carbon-Free Flying
12:06 | Liquid Hydrogen has proven a very useful energy storage solution in industrial applications for some time, but can it really ever be put to practical and economically viable use in the global aviation industry?
Is a mini ice age coming?
12:43 | New research from Rice University has revealed a surprising link between extreme cold events and global warming.
How Europe is wrecking US carbon reductions
15:13 | Team Trees’ target is to get 20 million new saplings in the ground by January 1st 2020. And it’s just as well, because the European Union (including the United Kingdom!) is busy destroying millions of trees across the south-eastern United States.
Galactic Cosmic Rays. Climate Changers?
13:52 | Some think Cosmic Rays affect our climate and that the Grand Solar Minimum we’re now entering might mean this effect will increase. This week we take a look at the science involved.
New Carbon Dioxide Battery Solutions
11:50 | UIC has proved that a Lithium Carbon Dioxide battery can hold far more energy than a traditional battery. MIT has shown us a system that significantly improves the efficiency of capturing pure CO2 from ambient air streams.
Google and the Megacity Climate Heroes
17:15 | Our governments are failing us on Climate Change mitigation, and our own individual efforts can seem pointless. But our City Mayors, with help from Google’s Environmental Insights Explorer, are fighting back.
Carbon Pricing : Kill or Cure?
11:45 | Carbon Pricing. Carbon Tax. Emissions Trading. Call it what you will.
Chasing Methane : Big Brother is watching!
12:10 | Methane bubbling out of the arctic, accelerating the amplification of temperature rises in that region, plus a billion or so belching cows around the world spewing out millions of tons of CH4 every year. Are these the only culprits for increased methane?
Funding The Climate Breakdown : How can it be stopped?
11:17 | We all know the impact that fossil fuels, backed by huge government tax subsidies are having on the climate. What’s less well publicised are the mind boggling levels of investment that they have also been pouring into Oil, Coal and Gas.
IPCC : Accelerating Ice Melt and Rapidly Warming Oceans
17:04 | The IPCC have just released the third of three special reports on the perilous state of our our climate. We take a brief look at some of their headline findings and recommendations.
How much water is in my steak?!?
13:32 | Water is not something you expect to ooze out of your nice juicy rare rib eye. But the amount of water that goes into producing that slab of beef may surprise you.
Regenerative Agriculture – Part 2
11:23 | Regenerative Agriculture has been around for a very long time. The trouble is it’s just not the way most modern farming techniques are taught or practiced.
Regenerative Agriculture – Part 1
15:45 | Some people think that all we need to do is take some lessons from the way nature has always used it’s resources to regulate heat across our blue planet.
Nuclear Energy in the 21st Century
15:15 | Nuclear energy has been a source of somewhat emotive debate since its discovery in the 1930’s. We take a look at the current status of the global Nuclear Energy industry and the role it may play in the fast approaching energy transition.
Grand Solar Minimum is coming. And..?
16:26 | Our sun is reaching the end of it’s normal 11 year cycle and is now approaching a period of minimum solar activity. Some say it’s the real cause of climate change and that it’s going to wreak havoc with our weather systems.
Top ten reasons NOT to buy an electric vehicle (and why each one is wrong!)
16:19 | Electric vehicles. To buy or not to buy? All the major manufacturers are investing billions in research and development to bring us some spectacular electric choices.
Decarbonisation in the USA : New report says “SLOW DOWN!”
15:41 | A new report from energy consultants Wood Mackenzie suggests caution and a slower transition. We look at their findings.
Methane: The Arctic’s hidden climate threat
14:02 | A methane burst from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf could happen at any time and needs only a trigger. That’s the conclusion of the world’s leading research scientist in that region – Natalia Shakhova.
One Belt One Road – Xi Jinping’s Green Vision?
15:44 | The New Silk Road is quite simply the most ambitious social and civil engineering project since the Marshall Plan. But is President Xi Jinping’s vision one of a green utopian future or will his plans cause even more climate chaos?
Hydrogen for heating our homes
14:03 | We focus on the potential of hydrogen for heating our homes – something that is being enthusiastically embraced by the UK government.
Energy Storage in Hydrogen : Does this beat batteries?
12:25 | Traditional batteries have some limitations, not least in capacity and duration of storage. Hydrogen has no such limitations and as a result it’s rapidly gaining attention as a potential market disrupter.
TESLA batteries : Are they the Holy Grail of Climate Change?
12:19 | Huge advances in battery technology now mean that energy can be stored as it’s generated, giving national grid operators an instant solution for smoothing demand and bringing domestic micro-generation to hundreds of millions of people.
Pompeo’s CIA (Climate Insanity Again!)
15:47 | Most of the Arctic Council agreed that Climate Change was a clear and present danger that required extremely careful stewardship. But Mike Pompeo represented a voice of dissent that effectively scuppered any progress.