Fear and Wonder

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.

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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 climate summit in Egypt in November 2022 – which resulted in an historic agreement to establish a loss and damage fund to compensate countries that are most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. In our final episode of Fear & Wonder, we hear from Senegalese meteorologist Aïda Diongue-Niang, who called us from COP27. She exp...

May 18, 2023•47 min•Season 1Ep. 7

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 more affordable than they were." After studying advances in solar technology, which has seen rapid expansion and price reductions, he's optimistic about our capacity to avert the worst possible climate outcomes. In this week's episode of our climate podcast Fear and Wonder, we speak to Greg about the pace of change in the solar...

May 10, 2023•44 min•Season 1Ep. 6

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 don't have hope and optimism, then we all give up, and if we all give up, then we are truly lost." In this live bonus episode of Fear & Wonder, recorded on May 1, host Michael Green spoke with Hughes, alongside current IPCC authors Mark Howden and Frank Jotzo to unpack the latest Synthesis Report. All three guests have been a...

May 03, 2023•48 min•Season 1Ep. 8

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 species around the world, which is the topic of this week's episode. In case you're new here: 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 of the scientists who wrote it. The show is sponsored by the Climate ...

Apr 26, 2023•45 min•Season 1Ep. 5

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 how climate change is impacting Earth's water cycle. And it's the topic of our latest episode. In case you're new here: 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 of the scientists who wrote it. The s...

Apr 19, 2023•40 min•Season 1Ep. 4

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 of the scientists who wrote it. The show is sponsored by the Climate Council , an independent, evidence-based organisation working on climate science, impacts and solutions. The show is hosted by Joelle Gergis, a climate scientist and lead author for the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and her friend M...

Apr 12, 2023•45 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Cool beasts

Mar 29, 2023•44 min•Season 1Ep. 2

Entries from the Log

Mar 22, 2023•46 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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 that threatens every human society on Earth, via the hearts and minds of the scientists who wrote it. Subscribe now to be the first to listen. Sound recording from Yle (Finnish Broadcasting Company) Archives . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Sep 07, 2022•1 min

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