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Climate Genn is a leading climate change podcast hosted by Nick Breeze, featuring insightful conversations with scientists, policymakers, activists, and innovators on the frontlines of climate action. Each episode dives deep into the urgent issues shaping our planet’s future — from energy transition and carbon removal to adaptation, biodiversity, and climate justice.Whether you're a policymaker, researcher, or an engagedThe podcast is produced by Nick Breeze - find out more at https://genn.cc + https://patreon.com/gennccPlease subscribe to the podcast.Thank you, Nick BreezeClimateGenn

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  Extreme Heat, Food & Conflict: The Climate Security Risk | David Spratt

  Sep 7, 202619 min

  A food crisis can become a security crisis. In the second part of my conversation with climate analyst David Spratt , we look at what happens when climate disruption, extreme heat, food insecurity and geopolitical tensions begin to interact. The Indo-Pacific is particularly vulnerable. Australia and its neighbours face increasing heat and dryness while the region is already shaped by political and security tensions. David explores how a food and heat crisis could potentially destabilise the wider region — and why governments need to prepare for these risks before they become emergencies. We discuss the need for stronger climate-security intelligence, food stockpiles, resilience, adaptation and disaster preparedness. David also examines the relationship between climate disruption, displacement and political instability, drawing on examples including Syria and the Arab Spring. The conversation also turns to Australia's contradictory climate policy, the vulnerability of Indonesia and the question of whether governments are responding adequately as extreme climate events repeatedly exceed expectations. David's central message is that climate impacts cannot be treated simply as isolated environmental events. They can interact with existing vulnerabilities, creating cascading consequences across food systems, societies and national security. In this episode: • How a food and heat crisis could become a security crisis • Why the Indo-Pacific is particularly vulnerable • Australia, China and a contested Pacific • The need for climate-security intelligence • Why governments need to prepare before crises arrive • Food insecurity, migration and political instability • Lessons from Syria and the Arab Spring • Indonesia's vulnerability to climate disruption • Australia's contradictory climate and energy policy • Why extreme climate events are repeatedly exceeding expectations • Resilience, adaptation and disaster preparedness • An El Niño with no historical analogue David Spratt is a climate analyst and researcher with the Australian Security Leaders Climate Group. This conversation explores a plausible risk scenario, not a prediction . Part 1: War, Fertiliser & El Niño: A Recipe for Food Crisis?

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  The Next Food Crisis? War, Fertiliser & El Niño | David Spratt

  Sep 4, 202612 min

  What happens when war, fertiliser shortages, extreme heat and El Niño collide? In this episode of ClimateGen, Nick Breeze speaks with climate analyst David Spratt about a potentially dangerous food-security crisis unfolding across the Indo-Pacific. David is the co-author of Recipe for Food Insecurity: War, Fertiliser and the El Niño , which examines what could happen when several systemic shocks occur at the same time: reduced fertiliser availability, lower crop plantings, extreme heat, drought and a powerful El Niño affecting some of the world's most important agricultural regions. Rice is at the centre of the concern. Much of Asia depends heavily on rice, while the international rice market is relatively small. A significant production shock could therefore have rapid consequences for prices and food availability. David draws a comparison with the wheat crisis of 2009–10, when simultaneous crop failures contributed to a dramatic rise in wheat prices in the Middle East and helped create conditions that fed into the Arab Spring. He is careful to stress that this is not a prediction , but a plausible scenario that governments should be preparing for. The conversation explores how food insecurity can interact with extreme heat, existing conflicts and political instability — and how a food and climate crisis could ultimately become a security crisis . We discuss: • Why El Niño could create exceptionally hot and dry conditions across Asia and Australia • The fertiliser crisis and why its effects could persist for years • Why rice is particularly vulnerable • The relationship between food prices, insecurity and social unrest • Lessons from the 2009–10 wheat crisis and the Arab Spring • How climate disruption can contribute to regional instability • Why governments need better climate-security intelligence and preparedness • The importance of resilience, adaptation and planning before crises arrive David Spratt is a climate analyst and researcher with the Australian Security Leaders Climate Group. This episode explores a plausible risk scenario — not a forecast.

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  How Industrial Farming and Climate Chaos Are Pushing Diseases Into Humans

  Aug 26, 202621 min

  In this Climate Genn episode, I speak with author Michael Dulaney about his new book, Sentinels: When Diseases Spread Between Animals and Humans . Michael takes us on a journey to meet the animals, citizens and scientists living and working under pressure, as unsustainable practices—such as industrial chicken and beef production—combine with ever more extreme weather events driven by climate change. As with so many climate and biodiversity topics, the embedded complexity, full of both beauty and tragedy, leaves us scrambling to make sense of the damage done—and the calamity we continue to bring on ourselves. #ClimateChange #Pandemics #BirdFlu #Zoonosis #IndustrialFarming #BiodiversityLoss #ClimateGenn #SentinelsBook #OneHealth #EcoAnxiety

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  "We’re Not Ready": Inside the National Emergency Briefing on the Climate Shock Ahead

  Jul 20, 202634 min

  In this episode of GENN, Nick Breeze talks to Professor Mike Berners-Lee, Chair of the National Emergency Briefing (NEB), about why the UK is “not ready” for the accelerating climate and nature emergency. Visit: https://nebriefing.org They begin with the recent Europe-wide heat dome that led to an estimated 20,000 excess deaths and record breaking UK temperatures, then explore what this tells us about how exposed our societies have become to extreme weather. Mike explains why the conditions we are living through now are likely to be the least extreme we will ever see in the UK, with a super El Niño expected to drive even more intense heat in the near term. The conversation covers the UK’s ageing infrastructure, under investment in resilience and the rapid shift from “one in a thousand year” events to risks that now carry a realistic chance of occurring every year. Mike argues that the climate and nature transition is entirely doable and economically attractive, highlighting analysis that shows large scale investment in net zero and retrofit pays back rapidly and creates skilled jobs across the country. Nick and Mike dig into the role of disinformation and comforting narratives such as “we cannot afford it” or “Britain is only one per cent of global emissions so does not matter,” and why these stories amount to denial of the scale of response now needed. Mike explains how the NEB takes a different view of the public, treating people as capable of handling difficult truth, and how honest communication can improve psychological health by replacing vague anxiety with clear agency. They discuss systemic risk across food security, national security and infrastructure breakdown, including the possibility of a future food shock that could act as a national wake up call. Mike describes the NEB’s work to create trusted briefings for leaders and the public, the energy in the Westminster briefing where no one felt the situation was exaggerated, and the growing movement around the People’s Emergency Briefing film presented by Chris Packham. You will also hear how NEB screenings are snowballing across the UK and beyond, how the initiative is building support for a televised government supported national emergency briefing on climate and nature, and why Mike believes there is “nothing not to like” about a fair green transition that strengthens communities, farmers and livelihoods. The episode closes with a focus on agency: from attending NEB screenings and inviting MPs, to getting involved in local resilience and non partisan political work, and helping to take this emergency briefing model international. Mike sets out a theory of change for how public engagement, honest information and systemic action can still turn the tide, even in the face of deep geopolitical barriers. Key topics: Europe-wide heat dome and excess deaths Why “we are not ready” for extreme weather UK infrastructure, heatwaves and super El Niño Net zero investment, jobs and payback Disinformation, denial and national narratives Food security, biodiversity and systemic risk The National Emergency Briefing and People’s Emergency Briefing film Public agency, psychological health and community resilience How to get involved and help NEB go mainstream Links mentioned: National Emergency Briefing: nebriefing.org Would you like a shorter, 2–3 paragraph version of these notes as well for platforms that truncate descriptions more aggressively?

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  Rafe Pomerance 1946 - 2026 : The Man Who Rang the Alarm — And Never Stopped

  Jul 15, 202613 min

  Rafe Pomerance, who died on May 21, 2026 at age 79, spent nearly five decades trying to make the world take climate change seriously before it was too late. I last spoke with him at the Arctic Repair conference in Cambridge in summer 2025, where he told me his message was "absolutely the same" as it had been in 2018: the fate of Miami is tied to the fate of Greenland. A Career That Started With a Coal Report Pomerance's climate awakening began almost by accident. In the late 1970s, while lobbying for clean air at Friends of the Earth, he came across a government report on coal liquefaction warning that carbon dioxide emissions could cause a "significant and damaging" rise in Earth's temperature. From that point he devoted himself almost entirely to climate change, pushing Congress toward hearings and testifying himself in 1984 that the consequences, once clear, would be irreversible. He helped organize the landmark 1986 Senate hearings on the greenhouse effect, a genuine turning point in public awareness. From 1986 to 1993 he worked at the World Resources Institute, and under President Clinton he became Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Environment, leading the U.S. negotiating team that helped produce the Kyoto Protocol. In August 2018, the New York Times Magazine devoted an entire issue — "Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change" — to the story of how climate action nearly happened in the 1980s, with Pomerance at its center. The piece, later expanded into a book of the same name, cemented his reputation as one of the movement's earliest and most persistent voices, sometimes dubbed the "Paul Revere of climate change." In our Cambridge interview, Pomerance was focused on his final project: the Upper Limit Project, which sought to establish a global cap on sea-level rise as a companion metric to the 1.5°C temperature target. He argued that temperature alone had failed to sufficiently drive policy, but that sea-level rise — visceral, universal, and tied to the collapsing Greenland ice sheet's 24 feet of locked-up sea-level potential — could finally galvanize leaders from Miami to Tuvalu. He was candid about America's retreat from climate leadership under President Trump, calling the dismantling of the Inflation Reduction Act "a real tragedy," though he found some relief in China's growing role in clean energy technology. Despite the political headwinds, Pomerance remained resolutely hopeful. "It's just not acceptable to lose the homes of hundreds of millions of people over time," he told me, "and that's not an outcome that the world can accept." He leaves behind a policy legacy stretching from the Clean Air Coalition to Kyoto to the Arctic Repair movement, and generations of scientists and advocates he personally inspired. The Cover That Made Him FamousStill Pushing, Even at the EndAn Optimist to the Last

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