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Fear and Wonder

by The Conversation

The sixth report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a vast and terrifying analysis of humanity's impact on the conditions for life on Earth. It took hundreds of climate experts from all over the world four years to write, drawing on decades of prior knowledge. They’re advising humanity on what it’ll take for our civilisations to survive. Who are those scientists? What do they actually do? And what do they care about? Host and IPCC lead author Dr Joelle Gergis, and her friend, journalist Michael Green, guide listeners through the report – via the experts who wrote it. In each episode, they meet some of scientists involved, and get immersed in their lives and their science. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Latest episodes

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What is fair?

Should poorer countries be compensated for climate disasters that aren't their own making? The concept of "loss and damage" was debated at the United Nations COP27 clima

May 18 2023
47 min

Breakthrough

"The problem [of climate change] is getting worse," explains Greg Nemet, a Canadian renewable policy expert and IPCC author. "But we've got solutions now that are so much

May 10 2023
43 min

Bonus episode: Where to next on climate change

"I'm often asked if I feel hopeful for the future," says former IPCC climate scientist Lesley Hughes. "For me, hope is a strategy, rather than an emotion. Because if we d

May 3 2023
48 min

Life on the move

Around half of all life on Earth is on the move because of climate change. That staggering statistic shows just one of the ways climate change is impacting animal specie

Apr 26 2023
45 min

Wetter and drier

"The wet gets wetter and the dry gets drier". That's one of the key messages from the chapter in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) latest report on

Apr 19 2023
39 min

Equations

Fear & Wonder is a new climate podcast, brought to you by The Conversation. It takes you inside the United Nations’ era-defining climate report via the hearts and minds o

Apr 12 2023
45 min

Cool beasts

Fear & Wonder is a new climate podcast, brought to you by The Conversation. It takes you inside the United Nations’ era-defining climate report via the hearts and minds o

Mar 29 2023
43 min

Entries from the Log

Fear & Wonder is a new climate podcast, brought to you by The Conversation. It takes you inside the United Nations’ era-defining climate report via the hearts and minds o

Mar 22 2023
46 min

Preview: Meet our hosts Joelle and Michael

Co-hosted by IPCC scientist Dr Joelle Gergis and journalist Michael Green, Fear and Wonder will take listeners inside the defining scientific advice on the climate crisis

Sep 7 2022
1 min

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