What do Amazon, Microsoft, Finnair, Teck Frontier, Llyods Bank, Equinor and Singapore have in common? Buried in the news so far in 2020, there's been a deluge of good climate change developments around the world, signifying a clear uptick in momentum in the fight against global heating. In Episode 32, The Angry Clean Energy Guy, less angry for once, goes through these positive developments and continues to build on the case for climate optimism made in Episode 27.
Mar 06, 2020•23 min•Ep. 32
There is so much anti-electric vehicles propaganda around, I’ve started hearing kids repeating it recently: “Oh, EVs aren’t clean because of how batteries are made" and "oh, we don’t know what to do with batteries when discarded.” In this Episode 31, The Angry Clean Energy Guy sets out why this is propaganda; where it's coming from; why it's flat out wrong; and what to do about it
Feb 21, 2020•22 min•Ep. 31
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on all you need to know (sort of) about Hydrogen: Green vs. Black vs. Grey vs. Blue, the myths peddled by Big Oil and whether hydrogen is the solution to our de-carbonization imperative
Jan 31, 2020•20 min•Ep. 30
The Angry Clean Energy Guy's definitive guide (sort of) of what works, and what doesn’t, in fighting climate change: How much can you fly? Should you eat any meat? What about plastic? What’s the best approach to transport? Should you buy any carbon offsets? How much should you recycle?
Jan 17, 2020•22 min•Ep. 29
Big Data, machine learning and Artificial Intelligence are being harnessed by Big Tech in an unholy alliance with Big Oil aimed at increasing oil & gas production, climate emergency be damned. This Episode tells you much more about that, as well as about how we can derail this alliance. Hero of the Week: Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, for the EU Green Deal she tabled in record time. Villain of the Week: Scott Morrison, Prime Minister of Australia, for dereliction...
Dec 18, 2019•22 min•Ep. 28
The Angry Clean Energy Guy's Top 10 Reasons to be a Climate Optimist Anytime you get depressed by the climate catastrophe all around us, come back here, to this Episode, to refresh, then go back out and fight: The case for climate optimism is strong.
Dec 05, 2019•30 min•Ep. 27
A cataclysmic event (well, sort of) happened recently: The largest multi-lateral lender in the world, the European Investment Bank, said no to lending more money to oil, gas and coal. Why cataclysmic? It’s the gas bit. Because we’ve been told, time and time again, by oil companies that “natural gas” is clean, or is a bridge to a cleaner future. Now the biggest multilateral bank in the world says: It’s not true. The Angry Clean Energy Guy on why this decision is historic in the context of global ...
Nov 22, 2019•24 min•Ep. 26
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on insects, what they do for us, why we should love them and how new shock findings confirm that we are in the middle of an insect Armageddon of planetary ecological breakdown proportions. Hero of the Week: James Shaw, Minister of Climate Change of New Zealand, for working on a new regime that would require companies to assess and report their climate-related financial risks. Villains of the Week: 7 banks with no moral compass that want to finance a new $2.2 billion co...
Nov 08, 2019•20 min•Ep. 25
On how in 1982, Exxon Mobil published a beautiful 46 page report and estimated with stunning accuracy that the atmosphere would contain 415 parts per million of carbon dioxide this year. Then: They lied; They lobbied; They corrupted; They profited. And so we ended up, in 2019, with a climate emergency. Hero of the Week: 1,000 Australian engineers rebelling and putting engineering firms under pressure to abandon fossil fuel projects. Villain of the Week: Shell Oil, for trying to rip off British d...
Oct 25, 2019•23 min•Ep. 24
On (almost) everything you need to know about the dangerous global boom taking place in the petrochemicals industry, the plastic myths and cons it peddles and (some of) what we should do about it. Hero of the Week: Ban ki-Moon for acting on climate in South Korea. Villain of the Week: Liv Lønnum, Deputy Minister in the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy, for being a pretend conservationist and a hard-core apologist for Big Oil, aiding and abetting the destruction of the Arctic
Oct 11, 2019•23 min•Ep. 23
On the Saudi Aramco IPO, what it is, its risks, valuation, flawed rationale and why the IPO of the third largest polluter in history, in the era of fighting climate change, is pure hubris and greed. Hero of the Week: Every person that went out for a climate strike worldwide, notwithstanding the deafening silence in Asia. Villain of the Week: Norway's Equinor, for lying to the British public about natural gas' "low carbon footprint" (not!) and getting caught by UK regulators
Sep 27, 2019•20 min•Ep. 22
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on a major recent development and a precursor of what’s coming for Big Oil everywhere, namely Shell and Exxon having their social license to operate dirty and dangerous gas fields revoked in Groningen in the Netherlands; and on China’s Belt and Road initiative and the bad rap it gets for being environmentally unfriendly. Villain of the Week: Maxime Bernier, leader of the People Party of Canada. Hero of the Week (and probably of every week): Greta Thunberg, the Swedish ...
Sep 13, 2019•18 min•Ep. 21
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the other planetary emergency coming to us via Brazil, the decimation of 500,000,000 bees through the use of pesticides illegal elsewhere; on how Costa Rica offers hope to the burning Amazon Rainforest; on using plastic waste to pay for bus fares in Indonesia and Ecuador; and on a huge health warning sign I wrote that should be slapped on the side of petrol- and diesel-powered buses everywhere in the world. Hero of the Week: Lilly (11), an international environmenta...
Aug 29, 2019•16 min•Ep. 20
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the climate change lawsuits tsunami spreading around the world to hold polluters to account; and on plastic particles falling out of the sky with snow in the Arctic and plastic raining on the Rocky Mountains and on the Pyrenees mountains - and what to do about it. Hero of the Week: Medi Bastoni, a 43-year-old father of 4, walking 700km backwards from his home to Jakarta to shine the spotlight on Indonesia's deforestation. Villain of the Week: Jennifer Wilcox, for sp...
Aug 16, 2019•21 min•Ep. 19
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on amazing reforestation initiatives in Pakistan, India, China, Ethiopia, Europe as well as the Great Green Wall from Senegal to Djibouti, the amazing lack of reforestation in the US and Russia and the criminal destruction of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest; on the climate movement's propensity to attack each other instead of staying focused on its civilization-saving agenda and as a case study of this drama, the wasteful attacks against what we know works: 100% renewa...
Aug 02, 2019•22 min•Ep. 18
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the inexorable and intolerable continuing rise of emissions 27 years after the Earth Summit of 1992 in Rio de Janeiro; and on the RE 100, the best global initiative to fight back against catastrophic climate change by bringing together major businesses driving the world to 100% renewable electricity. Winner of the Week: Adidas, for challenging the (very irresponsible) fashion industry with a huge move to use only recyclable plastic and eliminate all plastic fiber in...
Jul 26, 2019•24 min•Ep. 17
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on a virus infecting sustainability: Big Oil are deliberately poisoning what sustainability means, diluting its impact and reach, and they are doing that in plain sight, borrowing the language and applying it to terrible initiatives and companies all designed to propagate our use of harmful fossil fuels and indeed increase it, rather than decrease it, when everyone knows we need to power the world with renewables as well as pretty much phase out our use of oil, gas and...
Jul 12, 2019•20 min•Ep. 16
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the weirdest, strangest and most violent climate chaos apparent everywhere in June in China, India, Pakistan, the United States, Europe, Russia, Japan, the Arctic, Antarctic and Greenland - seemingly with not a single news outlet connecting the dots. Winner of the week: Insurers Chubb for being the first US insurer to have the common sense and the guts to exit coal; Villain of the week: BP, sustainability's cancer (together with its other Big Oil friends), taking ad...
Jul 05, 2019•17 min•Ep. 15
The Angry Clean Energy Guy names and shames top fashion brands and describes why the fashion and garments industry is a horror show from a climate change and environmental perspective. Villain of the week: Shell Oil, who think they are smarter than everyone else, now greenwashing by pretending to sell "responsible" dirty gas cargoes, as if that could even be a thing. Hero of the week: America's leading medical groups who have declared a public health emergency over climate change.
Jun 27, 2019•17 min•Ep. 14
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the (very) dirty secret of luxury cruises which are in fact just punctured garbage bins on water; on New York State's aggressive 100% renewable energy mandate and on Canada's parliament voting that we are in a climate emergency one day then finding it perfectly normal to approve a massive pipeline for filthy tar sands oil the very next day
Jun 20, 2019•16 min•Ep. 13
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the impact of climate change so far in June (and just June) on India, Pakistan, China, Finland, Russia, Australia and the US - and how these major climate impacts are seemingly broadly ignored by the media even though they dwarf in importance what counts as news these days; on the $200 billion value destruction at GE, directly related to how much its management mis-judged the competitiveness of renewables; and on the 200,000 pieces of microplastics each one of us is...
Jun 12, 2019•21 min•Ep. 12
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on what the climate movement must learn (but hasn't, yet) from the fight against HIV /AIDS: The battle against Big Pharma was won in a way that offers important lessons for the fight against Big Coal, Big Oil and Big Gas. Hero of the week: Dr. Michael Mann, director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University. Villain of the week: Asia Pulp and Paper, the Indonesian conglomerate.
Jun 05, 2019•27 min•Ep. 11
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on electric bicycles; palm oil, deforestation, haze and climate change; “natural” gas and why the re-branding of methane gas into “natural” gas can’t hide the fact that methane gas is CO2 on steroids. Hero of the week: Jerry Taylor, who spent most of his professional life arguing against climate action, then changed his mind. Villain of the week: ABC’s World News Tonight program, for spending spent more time covering the birth of a royal baby in the week after he was b...
May 29, 2019•24 min•Ep. 10
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on dolphins dying en masse in Peru because of offshore oil & gas exploration techniques and in France because of industrial fishing; on why green bonds do more harm than goods; on lyin' coal companies and the forked tongues at BP Oil; and on electric buses and why they should be deployed everywhere right now
May 22, 2019•23 min•Ep. 9
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the human race reaching the highest levels of planet-warming gases in our atmosphere in human history; on an Exxon scientific paper from 1982 accurately predicting we would be there in 2019; on how much cash, lungs and lives we are granting Big Oil free of charge to destroy the planet; and on the Bintang supermarket in Ubud, Bali
May 15, 2019•20 min•Ep. 8
On a super-important report on our biodiversity from IPBES, Amsterdam and cars, Beijing and electric scooters, Michael O'Leary, Ryanair as the new coal and the aviation industry
May 08, 2019•20 min•Ep. 7
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on China's Belt and Road Initiative; Fund managers and oil companies; Jakarta; Cyclone Kenneth in Mozambique; Deforestation and Indian lawyer and environmentalist Afroz Shah
May 01, 2019•18 min•Ep. 6
On microplastics, geoengineering, chevron, occidental, BHP, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Danone, Unilever, generating electricity from wood and climate change protests
Apr 24, 2019•14 min•Ep. 5
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the Bank of England, the world's capital markets; plant-based diets; stopping flying; overthrowing capitalism; mainstream media and the BBC; and Shell Oil
Apr 17, 2019•15 min•Ep. 4
On nuclear power, the Great Barrier Reef, Sky News Australia, Dolphins and Overfishing, and Shell Oil.
Apr 09, 2019•13 min•Ep. 3
