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The Weekly Climate[Aug 9-15 ‘21] “No more excuses!“Welcome to this week’s edition of The Weekly Climate 🎉References: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] and [6].Happy anniversary to The Weekly Climate! Can you believe it? It’s been one full year of non-stop gathering the most important climate crisis news for you all. Thank you to each and everyone of my dear 696 readers for reading the newsletter every week (or almost exactly every other week according to my stats).Here are the top 3 most read issues that you may have missed:[Deep dive] Death to net-zero[Deep dive] Before the tractors…...2021-08-1600 min
The Weekly Climate[Aug 2-8 ’21] Death metal and plant-based metalWelcome to this week’s edition of The Weekly Climate 🎉References: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] and [6].I’m very proud to report that I managed to get out and run 4 times last week totaling a whopping 13.6km 😎. Which is the first time in more than 1.5 years that I managed to do that. And I feel very motivated about it — probably the endorphins 😅. If you’re a runner or consider taking up running then I have a climate change reason for why you should get out right now. The UN and Strava (sports app) have launched #thehumanrace which aims to get as many people as pos...2021-08-0900 min
The Weekly Climate[July 26-Aug 1 ‘21] G20 fails … againWelcome to this week’s edition of The Weekly Climate 🎉References: [1], [2], [3], [4] and [5].‼️News you can’t missHere’s one important scary/bad (🙀), good (😻), interesting (😼) and fossil (💩) news item. 🙀 Record-shattering heat extremes expected to be more common.😻 An uplifting and motivational post about how we can still stop climate chaos.😼 A new study looks at how many deaths each countries emissions are causing.💩 The world’s flagship fossil fuel carbon capture project has failed miserably.👩⚕️ Status: Climate & ScienceLet’s look at how we’re doing this week![#india] — Ind...2021-08-0200 min
The Weekly Climate[July 19-25 ‘21] 3.000.000.000.000$Welcome to this week’s edition of The Weekly Climate 🎉References: [1], [2], [3], [4] and [5].‼️News you can’t missHere’s one important scary/bad (🙀), good (😻), interesting (😼) and fossil (💩) news item. 🙀 New study reveals that clouds are definitely (97.5%) adding to global warming😻 For the umptienth time EVs are not worse than ICE cars, even on a dirty grid.😼 Is climate change happening faster than expected?💩 A look at how the American Petroleum Institute manipulates global politicians.👩⚕️ Status: Climate & ScienceLet’s look at how we’re doing this week![#rain] — A new...2021-07-2600 min
The Weekly Climate[Jul 12-18 ’21] Heat, flood, drought and fireWelcome to this week’s edition of The Weekly Climate 🎉References: [1], [2], [3], [4] and [5].The title for this weeks issue is taken from the 4 adaptation posts included in this weeks newsletter. Mother nature does indeed seem to punish us for our atmospheric intrusions these days. It’s weeks like this when we can really see the brunt force of mother nature that really makes one wonder if we are so much in control as we think (hint: I don’t think we’re in control at all). That’s why I want to start out talking about a board...2021-07-1900 min
The Weekly Climate[Jul 5-11 ‘21] The heat keeps rolling inWelcome to this week’s edition of The Weekly Climate 🎉References: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] and [6].‼️News you can’t missHere’s one important scary/bad (🙀), good (😻), interesting (😼) and fossil (💩) news item. 🙀 Heat waves are already wreaking havoc in the Northern Hemisphere😻 Shell’s CEO is “crying”😼 Here’s a review of 60 years of climate science pointing at all the sings we missed or ignored.💩 10 years of failed EU biofuel policies has wiped out forest the size of the Netherlands👩⚕️ Status: Climate & ScienceLet’s look at how we’re doing this week![#heat] — A...2021-07-1200 min
The Weekly Climate[June 28 - July 4 ‘21] How lobbyism is making the world burnWelcome to this week’s edition of The Weekly Climate 🎉References: [1], [2], [3], [4] and [5].This was a pretty crazy week. I mean just the two main “attractions”: Greenpeace’s undercover operation that revealed a lot about how the fossil fuel industry works with politicians just as the ocean caught on fire and a heat dome killed more than 400 people in North America, along with wildfires and heat records beaten many places. ‼️News you can’t missHere’s one important scary/bad (🙀), good (😻), interesting (😼) and fossil (💩) news item. 🙀 EU will be ripped apart by climate change according...2021-07-0500 min
The Weekly Climate[Jun 21-27’21] Systemic change is not a placeWelcome to this week’s edition of The Weekly Climate 🎉References: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] and [6].A bit of housekeeping: Last week’s live interview was unfortunately, cancelled, so I’m doing an e-mail based interview with the interviewees about offsets. I still expect the deep dive on offsets will still land in your inbox mid this week.Also changing the format for announcing deep dive interviews a bit. Instead of announcing it in the weekly newsletter I will announce it a little later in the week when the speaker is known. I hope this will make it l...2021-06-2800 min
The Weekly Climate[Jun 14-20 ‘21] Carbon neutral gas boatWelcome to this week’s edition of The Weekly Climate 🎉References: [1], [2], [3], [4] and [5].🦉Twitter Spaces topic of the week Carbon OffsetsThis is highly related to the last week’s discussion on net-zero vs real-zero and to the discussion the week before about agriculture. And I feel the news story this week about the carbon neutral boat with fossil gas warrants a discussion of what the heck is going on with offsets. What are they? Are they good for anything? Which are good? Can we make them good etc?Search for #twitter bel...2021-06-2100 min
The Weekly Climate[Jun 7-13 ‘21] Net-zero vs real-zeroWelcome to this week’s edition of The Weekly Climate 🎉References: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] and [6].As you know, when I’m launching new stuff I tend to try different things to see what works and next week we’re going to try Twitter Spaces instead of Clubhouse. Twitter Spaces is the same, just on Twitter. There’s a number of reasons why I wanted to try Twitter Spaces instead of ClubhouseIt’s where the climate discussion already isYou only need a Twitter account to joinA couple of people I’ve spoken too had...2021-06-1400 min
The Weekly Climate[May 31 - Jun 6 ‘21] Announcing Deep DivesWelcome to this week’s edition of The Weekly Climate 🎉References: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] and [6].Announcement: Deep dives & ClubhouseThanks to those who joined our Clubhouse event last week. I learned a ton from the interview with Betsy Middleton about how shareholder activism work and how it’s really a quite powerful way to force companies to change. That’s why I have decided to add another feature to this newsletter — well two to be exact but they’re related.👋 Clubhouse: The clubhouse discussions are here to stay. I really believe the format provides a great way to get...2021-06-0700 min
The Weekly Climate[May 24-30’21] Big fossils bad weekWelcome to this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate 🎉Before we continue I have a quick announcement + an invitation and even an additional unrelated invitation! First of all: Weekly Climate goes Clubhouse! I have toyed with the idea of using Clubhouse as a way to make sure that we leave no stone left unturned on some of the major news about the climate crisis. And also I wanted to give you my dear subscribers an opportunity to discuss and learn more about the most important news from the past week. And after being increasingly glued to the...2021-05-3100 min
The Weekly Climate[May 17-23’21] No more fossil fuels from this year!Welcome to this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate 🎉References: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] and [6].‼️News you can’t missHere’s one important scary/bad (🙀), good (😻), interesting (😼) and fossil (💩) news item. 🙀 The world’s biggest iceberg came into existence. A 4320 km2 behemoth.😻 30% of Shell’s shareholders voted for a resolution that calls total b******t on Shell’s climate “plan”.😼 A look at climatarianism or eating according to how carbon intensive the food is.💩 IEA: “No more fossil fuel expansion now! From this year”.👩⚕️ Status: Climate & ScienceLet’s look at how we’re doing this week!2021-05-2400 min
The Weekly Climate[May 10-16 ‘21] More space junkWelcome to this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate 🎉References: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] and [6]‼️News you can’t missHere’s one important scary/bad (🙀), good (😻), interesting (😼) and fossil (💩) news item. 🙀 Failing to meet Paris targets could ultimately lead to 59m sea level increase just from Antarctica ice melt (albeit in the next several hundred years).😻 Tesla has decided to stop taking bitcoin for vehicle purchases citing environmental damage caused by bitcoin.😼 A group of researchers are calling for net zero targets to split in two: One target dealing with actual emission reductions and the othe...2021-05-1700 min
The Weekly Climate[May 3-9 ‘21] Pollinator-friendly solar farmsWelcome to this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate 🎉References: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] and [6]‼️News you can’t missHere’s one important scary/bad (🙀), good (😻), interesting (😼) and fossil (💩) news item. 🙀 Bitcoin miners forced a coal power plant in New York online.😻 A really cool startup is making pollinator friendly solar farms.😼 A great article by Amy Westervelt that shows us why we’re continuously failing to find the right solutions for the climate crisis.💩 A new study shows that deaths from biomass now outnumbers those from coal and gas due to the phase out of mainly co...2021-05-1000 min
The Weekly Climate[Apr 26-May 2 ‘21] Win in Germany 🤩Welcome to this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate 🎉Refterences: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] and [6].‼️News you can’t missHere’s one important scary/bad (🙀), good (😻), interesting (😼) and fossil (💩) news item. 🙀 EU decided to include fossil gas as fundable clean energy.😻 Big win for activism this week in Germany as the government is being ordered to do more to ensure the future of future generations.😼 We The Power shortfilm released by Patagonia detailing the benefits of community owned energy.💩 Shell is fooling us.. again..👩⚕️ Status: Climate & ScienceLet’s look at how we’re doing this...2021-05-0300 min
The Weekly Climate[Apr 19-25 ‘21] Earth WeekWelcome to this week’s edition of The Weekly Climate 🎉References: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] and [6].‼️News you can’t missHere’s one important scary/bad (🙀), good (😻), interesting (😼) and fossil (💩) news item. 🙀 A Yale Climate Connections video discusses the rampant disinformation ecosystem that’s hurting everything we do as humans.😻 Worsening climate change is causing Sahara dust storm to appear less frequently.😼 Here’s 10 things (good and bad) that we’ve learned about the Earth since last Earth Day.💩 New documents shows that Shell has been planning most of what’s happening right now since the 90’s...2021-04-2600 min
The Weekly Climate[Apr 12-18 ‘21] Vive la FranceWelcome to this week’s edition of The Weekly Climate 🎉References: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] and [6].‼️News you can’t missHere’s one important scary/bad (🙀), good (😻), interesting (😼) and fossil (💩) news item. 🙀 76% of California are currently in a drought which does not bode well for the 2021 wildfire “season”.😻 France is moving closer to banning all national airline travel for which a 2021-04-1900 min
The Weekly Climate[Apr 5-11 ‘21] Carbon omissionsWelcome to this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate 🎉References: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] and [6].‼️News you can’t missHere’s one important scary/bad (🙀), good (😻), interesting (😼) and fossil (💩) news item. 🙀 Carbon omissions: The amount of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions that a country emits but “forget” to count.😻 A team of Swedish researchers have had a major breakthrough for making “massless” batteries.😼 Great cartoon series on the most common tactics employed by the climate delayers.💩 US banks are soaked in fossil fuels despite pledging divestment.👩⚕️ Status: Climate & ScienceLet’s look at how we’re doing this...2021-04-1212 min
The Weekly Climate[Mar 29-Apr 4 ‘21] Big agriculture knew tooWelcome to this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate 🎉References: [1], [2], [3], [4] and [5].Let’s start this one off with by far the saddest April Fools, a tweet by Greta Thunberg. Imagine if this was actually true and not a joke. And if you want to read on what happened during IEAs summit click the tweet below.‼️News you can’t missHere’s one important scary/bad (🙀), good (😻), interesting (😼) and fossil (💩) news item. 🙀 #BigAgricultureKnewToo, like big oil big meat and dairy companies have spent millions in lobbying efforts to curb climate action.😻 Bike infr...2021-04-0500 min
The Weekly Climate[Mar 21-28’21] Banking on Climate ChaosWelcome to this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate 🎉References: [1], [2] and [3].‼️News you can’t missHere’s one important scary/bad (🙀), good (😻), interesting (😼) and fossil (💩) news item. 🙀 The 60 biggest banks has funneled 3.8T$ into the fossil fuel industry since the Paris Agreement.😻 It looks like more and more ad agencies have stopped working with the fossil fuel industry.😼 Bacterias, that can help ice form?! (and the opposite)💩 Experienced climate journalist Ketan Joshi, goes through the wellknown fossil fuel industry tactics for shifting politicians focus away from them and onto other things.2021-03-2900 min
The Weekly Climate“Final” episodeThis is the final episode for now that will go out to major podcast publishing platforms. The reason is that nobody seem to notice that I forgot to publish an episode last week. I won’t go through fighting with Anchor.fm every week if nobody really cares 😅. So if you want to listen you can still do so in the newsletter itself. Just go to weeklyclimate.com and listen. AFAIK you can even add the stream to your podcast app.2021-03-2900 min
The Weekly Climate[Mar 15-21’21] Decades to come...Welcome to this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate 🎉Reference: Drilled NewsThis week I decided to mix up the climate numbers with a quote. I will do this every now and then whenever there’s something that’s so important it deserves it. This one is crucial to understanding what BP is doing right now. Of course I will dive deeper on this one below.‼️News you can’t missHere’s one important scary/bad (🙀), good (😻), interesting (😼) and fossil (💩) news item. 🙀 Nothing this week is as scary as the evidence mounting against...2021-03-2200 min
The Weekly Climate[Mar 8-14 ‘21] Fridges and F-gasesWelcome to this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate 🎉References: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] and [6].For those listening on the newsletter or the podcast you will notice that there’s not a lot of sound effects this time. Perhaps that for the better? But in any case the reason is that I’ve grown tired of fighting with my former podcast app and are getting used to a new one. So I will probably augment the podcast format in the coming weeks.Finally, remember that it’s not too late to sign up for our Massive.earth Challenge. Come join...2021-03-1500 minThe Weekly Climate[Mar 8-14 ‘21] Fridges and F-gasesWelcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!
I’m trying out a new recording app this week, so the episodes have a lot fewer sound effects and other stuff. I had a minor leveling issue with one part of the recording, so please bear with me while I use this otherwise much better app.
This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wh...2021-03-1515 minThe Weekly Climate[Mar 1 - Mar 7’21] Massive EarthWelcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!
NB! Due to a bug in Anchor.fm that I’m using to record this podcast, a bug that has been persisting now for multiple months this episode might be missing the final “goodbye” sequence. If that is the case I apologize. I’m actively looking for other tools to use as they don’t seem to want to fix this bug.
This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate cr...2021-03-0817 min
The Weekly Climate[Mar 1 - 7 ‘21] Massive EarthWelcome to this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate 🎉References: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] and [6].This friday my co-founder Martin Ferro-Thomsen and I (and a whole host of lovely advisors and partners) launched our new project Massive.earth. If you already read our launch blogpost you can just skip forward to the newsletter part. I wanted to feature it here since this initiative is very likely interesting for a whole lot you, my dear readers. For those of you who have been subscribing for a long time you will probably also see a resemblance in the way we structure our wor...2021-03-0800 min
The Weekly Climate[Feb 22-28’21] Wall Street shapeshiftersWelcome to this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate 🎉References: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] and [6].‼️News you can’t missHere’s one important scary/bad (🙀), good (😻), interesting (😼) and fossil (💩) news item. 🙀 An important ocean current that is known for shaping our climate is at its weakest in the past 1000 years.😻 Exxon has stranded 98% of its assets in the Canadian oil sands.😼 Following up on our coverage of Texas last week, this article sums up the most important lessons from the event.💩 Drilled news has uncovered an interesting tie between the fossil fuel industry, tobacco i...2021-03-0100 minThe Weekly Climate[Feb 22-28’21] Wall Street shapeshiftersWelcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!
This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.
For the full shownotes please go to https://www.weeklyclimate.com
News you can’t miss:
🙀 Did you know that supermarkets (in the US alone) emit 2.6Gt of CO2eq into the atmosphere due to F-gas emissions?
😻 Mining giants are saying goodbye to coal. Hopefull...2021-03-0114 min
The Weekly Climate[Feb 15-21’21] The Texas IssueWelcome to this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate 🎉References: [1], [2], [3] and [4].‼️News you can’t missHere’s one important scary/bad (🙀), good (😻), interesting (😼) and fossil (💩) news item. 🙀 Did you know that supermarkets (in the US alone) emit 2.6Gt of CO2eq into the atmosphere due to F-gas emissions? 😻 Mining giants are saying goodbye to coal. Hopefully for good.😼 CarbonBrief goes deep into what health benefits we can expect if we decide to solve the climate crisis.💩 Texas suffered a lot of blackouts from the recent extreme cold caused by the polar vo...2021-02-2200 minThe Weekly Climate[Feb 15-21‘21] The Texas IssueWelcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!
This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.
For the full shownotes please go to https://www.weeklyclimate.com
News you can’t miss:
🙀 Did you know that supermarkets (in the US alone) emit 2.6Gt of CO2eq into the atmosphere due to F-gas...2021-02-2215 min
The Weekly Climate[Feb 8-14’21] 8.700.000Welcome to this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate 🎉References: [1], [2], [3] and [4]A quick announcement before we go on to the newsletter. I wanna take this time to welcome our first Voluntary Researcher, Knut Eirik Almelid. I met Knut at a virtual Danish Refugee Council event earlier this year and we had a couple of chats after that about The Weekly Climate. So when I heard he had started looking for a new gig (which he still is) it was obvious to ask if he wanted to help with the time has. Knut has worked with Doctors Wit...2021-02-1500 minThe Weekly Climate[Feb 8-14’21] 8.700.000Welcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!
This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.
For the full shownotes please go to https://www.weeklyclimate.com
News you can’t miss:
🙀 Updated numbers suggest that fossil fuel based pollution kills 8.7 million (up from 7.5M) every year.
😻 Surprisingly, a NASA-bas...2021-02-1517 min
The Weekly Climate[Feb 1-7’21] The 80/18 rule of food productionWelcome to this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate 🎉References: [1], [2], [3], [4] and [5].‼️News you can’t missHere’s one scary/bad (🙀), good (😻), interesting (😼) and fossil (💩) news item.🙀 If you’re wondering about the negative effects the climate crisis has on your health, New York Times has a detailed list.😻 Some things are actually going better in the fight to solve the climate crisis than the worst predictions laid out. 😼 Steel plants have a big footprint and this week Grist looks at the paths that steel plants have to decarbonize.💩 The fossil...2021-02-0800 minThe Weekly Climate[Feb 1-7’21] The 80/18 rule of food productionWelcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!
This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.
For the full shownotes please go to https://www.weeklyclimate.com
News you can’t miss:
🙀 If you’re wondering about the negative effects the climate crisis has on your health, New York Times has a detai...2021-02-0815 min
The Weekly Climate[Jan 25-31’21] EU Renewables - The fossils: 1 - 0Welcome to this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate 🎉References: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] and [6].Due to a bug in the app I’m using for the podcast (Anchor) the episode today is missing the final minute or so. I’m sorry about that 🙏. If anybody knows a great app for making podcasts let me know. Alright, on to the newsletter! 🏃♂️‼️News you can’t missHere’s one scary/bad (🙀), good (😻), interesting (😼) and fossil (💩) news item.🙀 A new study has found that the annual rate of ice loss has increase 57% since 1994.😻 Renewables (wind and solar) gen...2021-02-0100 minThe Weekly Climate[Jan 25-31’21] EU Renewables - Fossils: 1 - 0Welcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!
This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.
For the full shownotes please go to https://www.weeklyclimate.com
News you can’t miss:
🙀 A new study has found that the annual rate of ice loss has increase 57% since 1994.
😻 Renewables (wind and sola...2021-02-0114 min
The Weekly Climate[Jan 18-24 ‘21] The Biden editionWelcome to this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate 🎉References: [1], [2], [3] and [4].Ok, let’s just be honest. This episode is more U.S. heavy than usual, obviously due to President Biden being sworn in. Lots of reactions, lots of hopes, lots of dreams. But also lots of action on his first day. Let’s see where this goes. But don’t worry. There’s also plenty of non-US stuff this week. 🤗‼️News you can’t missHere’s one scary/bad (🙀), good (😻), interesting (😼) and fossil (💩) news item. 🙀 50.000 lives would be spared every single year in...2021-01-2500 minThe Weekly Climate[Jan 18-24 ‘21] The Biden editionWelcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!
This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.
For the full shownotes please go to https://www.weeklyclimate.com
News you can’t miss:
🙀 50.000 lives would be spared every single year in EU if we stopped polluting our air with fossil fuels and other pollutants.
😻 Best news this week is that the U.S. Dem...2021-01-2515 min
The Weekly Climate[Jan 11-17’21] Mother Nature is our allyWelcome to this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate 🎉References: [1], [2], [3], [4] and [5].When you think about it humans are threatened by a changing climate i.e. nature. The ecosystem of the planet is changing and making it more and more uninhabitable for us. That could make you conclude that climate change is man against nature. That has been the prevailing assumption since the industrial revolution that man can just modify nature to our liking. It seems clear at this point that’s not true. Nature is forcing us to change, not the other way around. Still, it’s not a...2021-01-1800 minThe Weekly Climate[Jan 11-17’21] Mother Nature is our allyWelcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!
This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.
For the full shownotes please go to https://www.weeklyclimate.com
News you can’t miss:
🙀 The next major IPCC report goes to governments for acceptance without pointing fingers at the fossil fuel industry. Why?
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The Weekly Climate[Jan 4-10’21] 9 yearsWelcome to this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate 🎉References: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] and [6].When writing this newsletter, one thing that continuously puzzles me is that it is so much easier to find climate news about the US than any other place. I always have to spend quite some time to make sure the newsletter is balanced and that it’s not too US-focussed. Most research, case-studies, policy and innovation news I find comes from the U.S. The US seems to have all the great climate reporters: Emily Atkin, Amy Westervelt, Mary Annaïse Hegglar, and many more. There’...2021-01-1100 minThe Weekly Climate[Jan 4-10’21] 9 yearsWelcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!
This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.
We go back to the original news focussed format this week but augments the newsletter with a blog that describes which actions to take based on the news items you read.
News you can’t miss:
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The Weekly Climate[Dec 28’20-Jan 3’21] Hope and fearWelcome to this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate 🎉References: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] and [6].Happy new year! 🚀 I hope you didn’t drink as much wine as I did, but if you did power to you! I was in charge of bringing wine to our small new years party (safely within our COVID-circle of course) and I’m happy to report that I did manage to drink most of the wine myself. And boy, am I a good wine-shopper 🍷. Too good for my own health apparently. 🥴So I’m therefore also excited to bring you the first issue of the Weekl...2021-01-0400 minThe Weekly Climate[Dec 28’20 - Jan 3’21] Hope and fearWelcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!
This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.
We go back to the original news focussed format this week but augments the newsletter with a blog that describes which actions to take based on the news items you read.
News you can’t miss: ...2021-01-0414 min
The Weekly Climate[Dec 21-27’20] Exxon wishes you a merry x-masWelcome to this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate 🎉References: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] and [6]This week we’re just going to start off with this leaked internal Exxon x-mas holiday video courtesy of the Climate Ad Project. Please watch, it’s really great. … because it’s true.‼️News you can’t missA part from the excellent Exxon ad above, there’s more Exxon news such as the fact that it doesn’t want to tell anybody about how much it’s new projects are going to pollute. In fact it sells some of them as climate-bene...2020-12-2813 minThe Weekly Climate[Dec 21-27’20] Exxon wishes you a merry x-masWelcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!
This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.
We go back to the original news focussed format this week but augments the newsletter with a blog that describes which actions to take based on the news items you read.
News you can’t miss: A pa...2020-12-2813 min
The Weekly Climate[Dec 14-20’20] OffsetgateWelcome to this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate 🎉References: [1] and [2].Is there an #offsetgate underway? Last week I referred to an article by Bloomberg which pointed out that one of the largest nature conservancies in the US were cheating with its offsets. This week another company is caught by Bloomberg selling worthless offsets. The key thing about offsets is that in order for them to work the company selling them must prove that had it not been for them then the trees wouldn’t have been planted or protected. This is the problem for both of th...2020-12-2100 minThe Weekly Climate[Dec 14-20’20] OffsetgateWelcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!
This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.
We go back to the original news focussed format this week but augments the newsletter with a blog that describes which actions to take based on the news items you read.
News you can’t miss: The IE...2020-12-2117 min
The Weekly Climate[Dec 7-13’20] The Emissions GapWelcome to this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate 🎉References: [1], [2], [3], [4]Another big report week. The numbers above are taken from the most important ones. And boy are the numbers clear. 2030/2043: These numbers are average case and should therefore be taken with a grain of salt in terms of precision, but I must admit I thought both temperature boundaries were way farther out into the future. 2030? That’s like 2.5 election cycles. Most politicians should care about that.3% / -24%: I knew the richest were the bad guys (yes using the male pronoun here on purpo...2020-12-1400 minThe Weekly Climate[Dec 7-13’20] The Emissions GapWelcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!
This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.
We go back to the original news focussed format this week but augments the newsletter with a blog that describes which actions to take based on the news items you read.
News you can’t miss: This we...2020-12-1418 min
The Weekly Climate[Nov 30-Dec 6’20] 7 Grand ChallengesWelcome to this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate 🎉References: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5],[6].As I’m returning to the news focussed format I decided to do a small restructuring of the way I present the content. Before the newsletter was centered around the topics: Climate & Science, Technology, Startups, Investing, Major Carbon Emitters, Policy, Climate Justice, Books, Other and Podcasts. But I figured that these topics are somewhat arbitrary. The original idea was that people could then sort what interest them. However, the categories ended up becoming very mixed. And way too often I was in a dilemma of where to pu...2020-12-0700 minThe Weekly Climate[Nov 30-Dec 6’20] 7 Grand ChallengesWelcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!
This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.
We go back to the original news focussed format this week but augments the newsletter with a blog that describes which actions to take based on the news items you read.
News Summary: The UN Secretary General...2020-12-0718 min
The Weekly Climate[Nov 23-Nov 29 2020] HybridgateWelcome to this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate! 🎉 Announcement: Launching act.weeklyclimate.comAfter gathering feedback for the new format for some weeks now I’ve decided to go back to the news focussed format for the newsletter and then keep the actions that we as individuals can do on a separate blog: act.weeklyclimate.com. I want to make sure that the newsletter coupled with the blog gives you my dear reader a way to act on the news items that you read. For instance if you read a story about something negative the fossi...2020-11-3000 minThe Weekly Climate[Nov 23-Nov 29 2020] HybridgateWelcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!
This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.
We go back to the original news focussed format this week but augments the newsletter with a blog that describes which actions to take based on the news items you read.
News Summary: Hybridgate is rolling...2020-11-3014 minThe Weekly ClimateSpecial episode: Back to the basicsJust a brief episode announcing that I’m going back to a more news focussed newsletter and leaving the action items for a different blog. You can learn more about why by reading or listening to the next newsletter2020-11-3000 min
The Weekly Climate[Nov 16-22 2020] Baby you can drive my carWelcome to this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate! 🎉 Ok that went pretty poorly.This week I took my own medicine based on the last newsletter which focussed on how bad gas stoves are for the climate and for the indoor climate. So I posted on our apartment buildings facebook page the facts about gas stoves and that I wanted to lead the effort in getting our gas stoves replaced. I wrote that if I could get people to say they were interested in that then I would also try to negotiate a good deal for the...2020-11-2315 minThe Weekly Climate[Nov 16-22 2020] Baby you can drive my carWelcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!
This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.
This one features a new format in which we go into detail about one particular theme or news item from last week at the cost of making the news section shorter but with the same amount of news (just...2020-11-2315 min
The Weekly Climate[Nov 9-15 2020] The climate and health bomb in your homeWelcome to this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate! 🎉 I love to cook. Currently, I’m really into Mexican. My coup de gras at the moment is smokey roasted chicken tacos with a goat cheese jalapeño sauce. Currently, I’m cooking on our old gas stove which stood here when we moved in. But that’s about to change. I used to belong to the tribe of people thinking that cooking with gas was just better. After all, the pros does it, right?Think again.As it turns out, the whole #cookingwithgas thing is yet ano...2020-11-1600 minThe Weekly Climate[Nov 9-15 2020] The climate and health bomb in your homeWelcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!
This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.
This one features a new format in which we go into detail about one particular theme or news item from last week at the cost of making the news section shorter but with the same amount of news (just...2020-11-1614 min
The Weekly Climate[Nov 2-8 2020] Volume is powerWelcome to this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate! 🎉 WUHU BIDEN WON! This might actually give us a shot at ensuring a livable future for future generations but seriously, we have a long way to go. Biden and the rest of the world will need to put on their working gloves ASAP.Sometimes I imagine talking to my long deceased grandparents about the world we live in today. The post-truth era with Trump, populist governments around the world, the fossil fuel industry, the total inaction on climate change and so on. And I wonder about their res...2020-11-0900 minThe Weekly Climate[Nov 2-8] Volume is powerWelcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!
This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.
This one features a new format in which we go into detail about one particular theme or news item from last week at the cost of making the news section shorter but with the same amount of news (just...2020-11-0914 min
The Weekly Climate[Oct 26-Nov 1 2020] It’s illegal to solve the climate crisisWelcome to this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate! 🎉 Thank you for all the feedback I’ve received on e-mail and in the comments on the last newsletter. I generally get the vibe that people like the updated version of the newsletter better. I still want to hear what you think especially if you disagree, so please reach out if that is the case (also if you just want to tell me how awesome it is 🥰). This week we’re going to look into why solving the climate crisis is illegal today and what you can do about i...2020-11-0200 minThe Weekly Climate[Oct 26-Nov 1 2020] It’s illegal to solve the climate crisisWelcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!
This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.
This one features a new format in which we go into detail about one particular theme or news item from last week at the cost of making the news section shorter but with the same amount of news (just...2020-11-0212 min
The Weekly Climate[Oct 19-25 2020]: The fossil enemyWelcome to this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate and today with a slightly changed format, yay! 🎉 I’ve been spending a lot of time recently thinking about how to make the newsletter more action.oriented. I have gotten a few e-mails from some of you saying something like great newsletter, but I feel powerless, I want to act, I want to do something etc. And it has been rumbling around in my head how to help facilitate that.If you’re like me you read the news here and in many cases you get pissed, angry, c...2020-10-2600 minThe Weekly Climate[Oct 19-25 2020] The Fossil EnemyWelcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!
This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.
This one features a new format in which we go into detail about one particular theme or news item from last week at the cost of making the news section shorter but with the same amount of news (just...2020-10-2614 min
The Weekly ClimateThe Weekly Climate #10: Oct 12-18 2020Welcome to this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate! 🎉 I recently started reading a book by philospher Toby Ord called The Precipice. So far it’s a highly interesting read about humanity’s existential risks and how to think about them. It deals with all kinds of existential risks we face from natural ones such as asteroid impacts to manmade ones such as climate change. And late one night as I was pondering asteroid impacts versus climate change I came up with an interesting thought experiment. Play along if you want.So let’s say that the astron...2020-10-1900 minThe Weekly ClimateThe Weekly Climate #10: Oct 12-18 2020Welcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!
This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.
Summary: Recycling plastic is largely a con perpetrated by the fossil fuel industry, letter from a waorani woman in the Amazon, Atlantic is the hottest in 2900 years and climate change has already cost over 1million lives and over 3 trillion $...2020-10-1916 min
The Weekly ClimateThe Weekly Climate #9: Oct 5-11 2020Welcome to this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate! 🎉 In-sync —October 10, 2020. Jim woke 8:30am to a brief tap on his wrist. It was his watch who told him that it was time to get up as he had just reached an optimal amount of sleep and was at an optimal place in his sleep cycle. The curtains pulled silently aside to let in the light. He sat up and he could smell the coffee from the kitchen. The coffee was actually brewed 2.5 hours ago when power prices was low and renewable wind production was high. But it was still b...2020-10-1200 minThe Weekly ClimateThe Weekly Climate #9: Oct 5-11 2020Welcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!
This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.
Summary: Greta et. al calls bullshit on EUs climate targets, September was the hottest month on reecord, California gets its first gigafire, the Amazon is turning into a savannah and Facebook climate denial ad gets 8million views despite the...2020-10-1219 min
The Weekly ClimateThe Weekly Climate #8: Sep 28 - Okt 4 2020Welcome to this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate! 🎉 The last cow (Oct 4 2020) — Nancy came running toward Catherine. As fast as she could. She always did that when Catherine rang the bell. Catherine hugged Nancy. “Come on Nancy, it’s time to go inside”. Catherine tied a leash to her collar and started to walk. Nancy followed her, as she always did. Catherine had bought the farm from a farmer who after eating cows was banned had to shut down. At that time the farmer had two cows left and Nancy was one of them. She was just a calf then...2020-10-0500 minThe Weekly ClimateThe Weekly Climate #8: Sep 28 - Oct 4 2020Welcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!
This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.
Summary: Lots of major carbon emitter news this week, as well as deeper dives into China’s 2060 carbon neutrality pledges and California’s ban on ICE cars.
For the full shownotes please go to https://weeklyclimate.subs...2020-10-0517 min
The Weekly ClimateThe Weekly Climate #7: Sep 21-27 2020Welcome to this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate! 🎉 The last human (September 28, 2020) — Sandra boarded the electric high-speed train from Pittsburgh to New York. She walked along the narrow aisle of the train, past other commuters and found her seat. She sat down and plugged her headphones in. She just came from a meeting with Pittsburgh officials discussing proposals about what to use the just retired Homer City Station Plant for. So many cool and interesting proposals were discussed. Everything from an art museum, to a startup co-working space, to a lab for researching green energy to low income...2020-09-2800 minThe Weekly ClimateThe Weekly Climate #7: Sep 21-27 2020Welcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!
This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.
Summary: 2.5m of sea level rise is coming regardless of 2C is reached or not, Facebook is in the midst of a gigantic climate change scandal, China pledges carbon neutrality, California bans ICE cars in 2035 and hurry up and...2020-09-2820 min
The Weekly ClimateThe Weekly Climate #6: Sep 14-20 2020Welcome to this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate! 🎉Degrowth and Decouple (September 20, 2020) — There are two main strategies to solving the climate crisis: Degrowth or Decouple. These strategies will define and build our future. Degrowth is the strategy of “no”: As in “no, you cannot fly”, “no, you cannot eat meat” and so on. Where Decouple is the strategy of “yes but”: “Yes you can fly, but it has to be in an a green hydrogen powered airplane” and “Yes you can eat meat, but it has to be synthetic or raised using alternative cow feed”. Both strategies are valid, but are in the pub...2020-09-2100 minThe Weekly ClimateThe Weekly Climate #6: Sep 14-20 2020Welcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!
This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.
Summary: We follow BPs moves extremely carefully, wildfires are releasing records amounts of CO2, hydro + solar is a match made in heaven, more big asset managers decarbonizing, and we discuss perhaps the only benefit of COVID19. And we also...2020-09-2118 min
The Weekly ClimateThe Weekly Climate #5: Sep 7-13 2020Welcome to this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate! 🎉 Credit: ESO/M. KornmesserThe Visitors (September 13, 2020) — Captains log, time 24572. Arrived at safe distance 0.16AU from the planet 2389AX.C, the third planet from the star 2389AX. We confirm that the planet is located within the goldilocks zone and orbits at a distance of approximately 1 AU from its star. The planet itself looks to be covered largely (~70%) by water, but with large swaths of land. We have confirmed the Chief Scientist’s suspicion that the planet is housing extraterrestrials of some intelligence. Monitoring equipment made out of metal we...2020-09-1423 minThe Weekly ClimateThe Weekly Climate #5: Sep 7-13 2020Welcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!
This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.
Summary: Fire and water everywhere, 33 trillion € moving out of fossil fuels, more damning evidence of fossil fuel lies, and a new climate refugee report. And we also get to look at our planet from the outside.
...2020-09-1423 min
Leap TakersEpisode 18: Heidi Lindvall - From documentary filmmaker to investing in ClimateTech startups with Pale Blue Dot VCHeidi Lindvall (@HeidiLindvall) is one of the founders and a general partner at Pale Blue Dot. Pale Blue Dot is a seed stage ClimateTech VC investing in reducing and reversing the effects of climate change and preparing for a new world. They invest tickets of €200k - €2M, in pre-seed and seed-stage companies based in Europe and US.
Heidi Lindvall previously co-founded Storygami, an online video company that increases viewers engagement & helped monetize content. She also founded CODOC, an award winning video production company. She has a background in Media and Human Rights and has studied for two...2020-09-1138 min
The Weekly ClimateThe Weekly Climate #4: Aug 31-Sep 6 2020Welcome to this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate! 🎉 Everything (Sep 5, 2020, Copenhagen) — In November 2018, I had just started on my climate journey, when this happened: The Sunrise Movement stormed Nancy Pelosi’s office in the White House, AOC joined them and the Green New Deal was born. Back then I was puzzled. I thought the Green New Deal was some weird attempt at jamming all kinds of social policies into a climate agenda. But boy was I wrong.A major realization that I’ve had over the past couple of years is that solving the climate crisis is...2020-09-0719 minThe Weekly ClimateThe Weekly Climate #4: Aug 31-Sep 6 2020Welcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!
This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.
Summary: A number of lawsuits, fracking bankruptcies and their impact on the climate (despite them being gone), lots of startup funding news both IPOs and venture funding and anti-solar panels! Oh, and solar getting so cheap that if...2020-09-0719 min
The Weekly ClimateThe Weekly Climate #3: Aug 24-30 2020Welcome to this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate! 🎉 I have spent some time in this and the past issues of this newsletter presenting the evidence for all the doom and gloom that we’re heading towards if we don’t solve the climate crisis. That is because I think an important part of this newsletter is reporting on what awaits us if we don’t solve it. However, something that in general is written very little about is what awaits us if do solve it. But why are both important? In 1940 the economist Ludwig von Mises wrote, that human...2020-08-3100 minThe Weekly ClimateThe Weekly Climate #3: Aug 24-30 2020Welcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!
This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.2020-08-3117 min
The Weekly ClimateThe Weekly Climate #2: Aug 17-23 2020Welcome to this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate! 🎉 First off, I want to extend my thanks to the great reception that the newsletter has received so far. Thank you for subscribing and reading it! 🙏Secondly, the U.S. is taking a severe beating these days. Two hurricanes entering the Gulf, more than 500 wildfires burning in California alone along with heatwaves triggering blackouts, a COVID situation that appear totally out of control and a president (and the fossil fuel industry for that matter) that appears to be taking pages out of Hitlers playbook (the news about what’s...2020-08-2400 minThe Weekly ClimateThe Weekly Climate #2: August 17-23 2020Welcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!
This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.
Summary: A couple of major news items has filled this week. First of all, Californias woes with blackouts and wildfires, the U.S. presidential election following Bidens Climate Change betrayal and later retraction and a lot of debate...2020-08-2424 min
The Weekly ClimateThe Weekly Climate #1: Aug 10-16 2020Welcome to the very first issue of The Weekly Climate! 🎉 This newsletter covers the week from August 10 to August 16 2020. Because this is the very first one I’m going to explain a few basics of the newsletter. First of all, the sections. The sections will likely change and adapt to new topics that arise but at this point the newsletter contains the following sections:If you can only read one article this weekClimate & ScienceTechnologyStartupsInvestingMajor Carbon EmittersPoliticsClima...2020-08-1700 minThe Weekly ClimateThe Weekly Climate #1: August 10-16 2020The inaugural Weekly Climate podcast episode. This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.
Summary: It has been a week full of good, bad and weird news. Among the good news are the $89B of stranded assets recently reported by seven of the oil majors, a UK solar company beats the world record in solar...2020-08-1725 minThe Weekly ClimateTrailerThis is a brief introduction to what The Weekly Climate is all about. Checkout weeklyclimate.com to learn more and, if you want, sign up to the newsletter.2020-08-1401 min