Climate Change Briefing Podcast Hosted By Nick Breeze - ClimateGenn

In this ClimateGenn episode I am joined by Dr Simone Mordue, Conservaton Scientist at the Royal Society For The Protection Of Birds, and by Bethany Chamberlain, Senior Policy Officer, working on climate adaptation.  We are discussing the new RSPB report titled ‘Climate Change And The UK’s Birds – Impacts risks and Conservation Responses. Also attached is the Economic Case For Nature report. This r...

In this episode, Nick Breeze speaks with Dr. Claudia Wieners, climate scientist at the University of Utrecht, to explore one of the most urgent and controversial questions in climate science: could Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI) be used to prevent the collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)? Dr. Wieners explains how AMOC is driven to collapse by two key forces — o...

In this Climate Genn Episode I speak with the Former UK Green Party leader, baroness Natalie Bennett, who is currently sitting as a Green peer in the House of Lords.  View more on https://genn.cc - become a member on patreon or Youtube for early episodes. Since the Greens scored a resounding win in the former Labour Stronghold of Gorton & Denton, many pundits and opposition party representativ...

In this ClimateGenn Episode I speak with former Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government and Chair of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group, Sir David King. The interview was initiated in response to David being quoted in the Financial Times. The article reported on how people in the East of England being forced to evacuate their homes due to erosion from inundation of sea water. A problem that i...

In this ClimateGenn episode I am discussing the forecast 2026 El Niño event with Dr Jennifer Francis from the Woodwell Climate Research Centre in the US. I don’t mind admitting my heart sank a little when I heard the news of the forthcoming el Niño.  Visit: Genn.cc for more information about this podcast The intensity of climate induced extremes that life on earth has been experiencing in recent y...

In this end of year episode I am looking back on the main climate highlights of 2025 with Research Director at the Breakthrough National Centre For Climate Restoration, David Spratt. Links:David Spratt's own 2025 Climate Round-up:https://www.climatecodered.org/2025/12/climate-hot-takes-on-2025.html?m=1National Emergency Briefing Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@nebriefing/videosProf....

In this ClimateGenn episode I am speaking with cofounder of the Climate Psychology Alliance (CPA) and author of Paradise Lost, Paul Hoggett. Paul’s book was published in 2023 and is more relevant today than it was a couple of years ago, given the ongoing tragedies and violence we are all being subjected to and forced to respond to.  "There's that kind of coldness, that cold indifference i...

“The world is as delicate and as complicated as a spider’s web, and like a spider’s web, if you touch one thread, you send shudders running through all the other threads that make up the web. But we’re not just touching the web, we’re tearing great holes in it . . .” Gerald Durrell, 'Catch me A Colobus' 1972.Important Links For This episode: https://durrell.org – find out more about the Du...

Activist Clare Farrell’s current framing of the climate crisis– on confronting political paralysis and urging radical collaboration between grassroots movements for a just, democratic response to rising global threats. Hansen In Helsinki (including Clare farrell's interview): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2abyXGvELI Main website with transcript: https://genn.cc/clare-farrell-interview/ This...

In this Climate. Genn Episode I am speaking with Baroness Natalie Bennett about her book ‘ Change Everything’ . Natalie makes a fascinating case as to why the centre of politics can no longer deal with the critical challenges we collectively face, from the economic to the social and environmental – we are living in a moment of both energising and frightening changes! In Change Everything Natalie d...

In this climategenn episode, I am speaking with journalist-and-author, Andy Neather , about his new book: Rooted In Change – The Stories Behind Sustainable Wine , co authored with Master of Wine, Jane Masters . The authors set out to document the challenges facing all aspects of wine production from the vineyard to the glass. Order 'Rooted In Change' Wine makes up an estimated 0.3% of agri...

In this climategenn episode I am speaking with Professor Paul Behrens, British Academy Global Professor, at the Oxford Martin School, at the University of Oxford, UK. “If we continue on the way we’re going, we just have less and less resiliency in the system, less and less ability to roll with the punches of climate change.”Paul is the keynote speaker at the Sustainability In Drinks conference bei...

In this ClimateGenn episode I speak with Dr René van Westen about his recently published papers with colleagues that identify a physics based method for forecasting the very consequential AMOC Tipping Point.  LINK TO RESEARCH PAPER: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025JC022651 If or when the AMOC – full name, Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation – collapses, it will lead...

"The car seems like freedom, and it might have been the freedom of the 20th century, but it certainly isn’t the freedom of the 21st century." Dame Hentrietta Moore In this ClimateGenn episode I am speaking with Professor Dame Henrietta Moore and Arthur Kay about their new book Road Kill – Unveiling the true cost of our toxic relationship with cars. Despite the motorcars association with...

IN this ClimateGenn episode I speak with ecologist and founder of the Ecosystem Restoration Communities, John D. Liu. We explore the insights that John has acquired from many years observing nature and humanity, while also pragmatically seeking collective pathways to a better tomorrow.  Full of wisdom and inspiration, it is a pleasure to feature John on the ClimateGenn podcast. Visit https://genn....

In this Climate. Genn episode I am speaking with Erin Sikorsky, Director at The Center for Climate and Security and also the Security Director at the The International Military Council on Climate and Security. We are discussing issues that Erin covers in her new book, Climate Change on the Battlefield .  With so much focus on national defence spending, while fires and floods are tearing through na...

In this climategenn episode I speak with climate policy analyst and Research Director at the Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration, David Spratt. He has recently published a report titled: Warming has reached 1.5°C. What does that mean for climate advocacy? https://www.breakthroughonline.org.au/climateadvocacy2025 David offers his perspective on climate policy through the Australian...

In this ClimateGenn episode I speak with researcher, Rene van Westen. We discuss his recent paper looking at how the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) responds in three different carbon emissions scenarios. This work builds on his – and colleagues – previous research that looked at establishing the conditions for the AMOC to collapse. René et al's findings shed new light on th...

In this ClimateGenn episode we are looking at 3 interviews recorded at the Arctic Repair Conference in Cambridge hosted by the Centre for Climate Repair at the University of Cambridge. In the 1st interview with Centre for Climate Repair director, Dr Shaun Fitzgerald, we touch on some of the theme emerging from the conference but also from the news cycle during London Climate Week that was running...

In this episode Nick Breeze speaks with Dr Soumitra Das from the Healthy Climate Initiative. Soumitra sheds light on the life threatening challenges that face citizens in India and surrounding countries today. A major threat to life is when heat and humidity combine – known as wet bulb temperatures. This is when the body is unable to cool itself, leading to fatal heatstrokes within a few hours. To...

Geoengineering, also known as ‘climate intervention’  is being debated by the UK government on 23rd June 2025. This is a response to a petition signed by ~160k people calling for a ban on geoengineering in the UK. I have been conducting interviews on this topic for the last 15 years. In that time, the climate science data has gotten worse and worse. Successive governments around the world have fai...

Zack is well known on social media for his engaging graphics that tell the climate change story. He also played a pivotal role at the US National Oceanic Atmospheric Association, or NOAA, in advancing climate modelling and forecasting through innovative AI and machine learning approaches. His forced departure, along with hundreds of other scientists due to DOGE-led federal cuts, has significantly...

[Dr Alexander MacDonald]We've been lucky. The day could come where most of the world loses electricity at exactly the same time. So we have to modernise electricity centred around the supergrid that protects the flow of electricity because it is life-giving.[Nick Breeze]In this ClimateGen episode, I'm speaking with Dr Alexander McDonald, a former head of climate research at the US National...

IN this ClinateGenn episode I am speaking with Dr Mike MacCracken, a pioneering climate scientist whose research on atmospheric physics and global climate change has significantly advanced our understanding of human impacts on the climate system. His leadership roles at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the US Global Change Research Program established him as a key figure in climate scien...

In Alentejo, techniques to conserve water are transforming the outlook for the region. As large olive oil and wine estates start to deploy regenerative farming techniques, we see the landscape come alive with biodiversity thriving. Indigenous grape varieties mean that new wine styles that are both elegant and charming are giving Alentejo a new character that resonates with international markets. T...