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In this episode, MIT engineer and Manhattan2 director Glenn Weinreb presents an “engineering approach” to the climate emergency that identify some practical pathways that can operate at the immense scale required, quantify their costs and risks, and invest seriously in the research and industrial capacity needed to carry them out. He argues that the world must not only reduce emissions to zero but ultimately remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to bend the warming curve.An Engineering Approach to Climate

The discussion examines how human-caused warming is destabilizing the global water cycle, creating a world in which water is increasingly “too much, too little, or too unsafe.” Warmer air holds more water vapour and accelerates evaporation, adding energy to the atmosphere that can intensify torrential rainfall, storms, and flooding while leaving other regions vulnerable to prolonged drought. Recent reports and satellite observations are cited to show declining river flows, depleted land-water storage, shrinking glaciers, dry soils, and growing freshwater stress across much of the world.

https://youtu.be/wzphp944H68?si=lOWBxwZNOW87DIZR

In this episode we examine the intertwined crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, water, food, and human health. Drawing on the IPBES Nexus Assessment and the Planetary Health Check, the discussion argues that these are not isolated problems but connected pressures on the systems that sustain life. https://youtu.be/D0yym8VRrjY?si=XgOO3ipiEFh7XXJV

In this episode we examine the catastrophic ice-and-rock avalanche and flash flooding that struck the Nepal–Tibet border region. The discussion traces how a collapse on Langtang Lirung sent immense volumes of ice, rock, and debris into steep Himalayan valleys, temporarily damming a river before a powerful wall of water surged downstream, devastating communities, schools, roads, and hydropower infrastructure. https://youtu.be/VIika655A-s?si=QcOSQnGMQHKu6Jzg

In this episode we examine James Hansen’s analysis of a developing El Niño against the backdrop of a rapidly warming planet. We discuss Hansen’s warning that global warming may be accelerating as Earth absorbs more energy, and that an El Niño occurring on top of this elevated heat could help drive exceptionally high global temperatures in the years ahead.

https://youtu.be/ZLhOVss5Vso?si=Aw1vefJbHOIkc8bX

In this episode we speak with Tom Chi—physicist, engineer, former Google X leader, climate-tech investor, and author of *Climate Capital*. Chi describes witnessing the rapid bleaching and collapse of a Hawaiian coral reef, an experience that redirected his work toward protecting ecosystems and building a regenerative economy. He argues that the climate and ecological emergency requires not only urgency, but new ways of thinking, communicating, and acting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u2GCjOO8qI&t=2s

In this episode we speak with Clare Farrell, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion. Clare reflects on XR’s origins, its rapid international rise, and how nonviolent direct action brought the reality and urgency of climate breakdown into mainstream public discussion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc-HHnq8IhQ&t=141s

Learn about what it's like at the bottom of the world with Antarctic facilities engineer and climate restoration advocate Ray Sundby, who spent four winters at McMurdo Station and the Amundsen‑Scott South Pole Station. In this episode, Ray shares first‑hand stories of life in the cold and dark Antarctic winter, from maintaining critical infrastructure and water supplies to navigating isolation in small, tightly knit communities of fewer than 200 people,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNR8y5XBp3E&t=144s

In this episode we introduce the Climate Intervention Environmental Impact Fund (CIEIF), a unique family-funded initiative that supports climate intervention field tests by financing rigorous environmental impact assessment and stakeholder outreach. Fund manager and environmental attorney Peter Jenkins and science advisor Dr. Renaud de Richter explain how the fund focuses on projects with real-world field trials that can scale to meaningful climate benefits, rather than basic research or conventional adaptation and clean energy effort.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkZ7kAfd3jg&t=1710s

In this episode we examine North America’s extraordinary early‑summer heat, floods, fires, and cascading impacts. From Ottawa’s record rainfall and basement‑flooding storm to northern Canada’s boreal forest ablaze, they connect local disasters to global climate dynamics and jet stream disruptions. https://youtu.be/U-wMcIZEhnI?si=dY05MNxKMMROtbc3

In this episode we examine how repeated spring and early‑summer heatwaves across Europe are undermining crops, livestock, rivers, and food prices. We connect extreme heat, drought, and locked jet‑stream patterns to falling yields, stressed farmers, and rising risks of regional and global food emergencies. https://youtu.be/ZRyZTi9MqcY?si=kAYeIViSNrGg-N8f

Europe is in the grip of a record‑shattering heatwave, with France, Spain, the UK and much of the continent seeing all‑time and June temperature records fall in rapid succession. From Madrid to New York, our panel unpacks what this extreme heat really means beyond the headlines: deadly heat stress, school closures, wildfire risks, collapsing harvests, and the mounting toll on both humans and non‑human animals. This isn’t just “a hot summer” – it’s a clear signal of how a rapidly warming climate is reshaping daily life across Europe and the world.

https://youtu.be/uFMCsj_W9kw?si=Lqhume4x_eW6IYLj

In this episode we unpack the latest “10 New Insights in Climate Science” report and what it really means for our future. From record‑shattering global and ocean heat to marine heatwaves, weakening land and ocean carbon sinks, and the tight feedback loop between climate breakdown and biodiversity loss, the panel connects the dots across Earth’s rapidly shifting systems. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rKhgC-4s7s&t=211s

Climate disruption is already pushing millions to move—but most “climate migration” is still invisible, internal, and legally unprotected. When home becomes unlivable, will we choose compassion or walls? Watch our new episode. https://youtu.be/zr1gRfEpeBE?si=NoorVDDCpdsgWh6l

How is climate change reshaping disease? A hotter, stormier world is spreading infections like dengue, Lyme, malaria and Vibrio—and driving deadly heat and respiratory risks. Watch our new video on climate, extreme weather and disease. https://youtu.be/oSEGjkXelig?si=ZpdXcIvb83fIhSCo