Climate Chat

In this Climate Chat episode, we interview Svante co-founder and SVP, Brett Henkel, on Svante's carbon capture system and how it can it can produce negative carbon emissions when used to capture CO2 from pulp and paper mills. We will also discuss other applications for carbon capture including cement and steel plants, as well as direct air capture (DAC).

As co-founder of Svante, Brett was instrumental in creating the process and the hardware used to prove the technology’s effectiveness as well as mobilizing external support throughout the path to becoming a successful innovation. These experiences strengthened his knowledge of business development and program management priorities.

Prior to launching Svante, Mr. Henkel was the program manager for QuestAir Technologies’ compact hydrogen production system. He is credited with designing the world’s first solenoid-driven rapid pressure swing adsorption test station.

Brett received his Bachelor of Science in Physics, with distinction, and a Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Victoria.

Brett on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/brett-henkel-0a93721

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Svante web site: http://Svanteinc.com

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Dan Miller has been giving talks around the world on the need for urgent climate action for over 20 years. He is co-founder of The Roda Group, a climate-tech venture capital group, and he serves as an advisor for other climate funds and climate-focused non-profit groups. He started Climate Chat in 2021 on Clubhouse and added YouTube in 2023.

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Leon Simons is a climate scientist based in the Netherlands. He was a co-author with James Hansen on the 2023 "Global Warming in the Pipeline" paper that discussed the recent acceleration in global warming. Leon's work has focused recently on changes in aerosol emissions from ships and the impact of those changes on climate change. You can access Leon's research writings here:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Leon-Simons

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In this Climate Chat episode, we interview SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute President & CEO Bill Diamond about what the search for extraterrestrial intelligence tells us about human-caused climate change on our home planet.

Bill Diamond is a Silicon Valley technology veteran and current President and CEO of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California. The SETI Institute is a nonprofit astrophysics and astrobiology research and education organization focused on the study of life in the Universe. Prior to joining the Institute, Mr. Diamond held various executive management positions in applied technologies, most recently at the optical networking company, Oclaro, Inc.

Link to SETI site: https://www.seti.org

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Dan Miller has been giving talks around the world on the need for urgent climate action for over 20 years. He is co-founder of The Roda Group, a climate-tech venture capital group, and he serves as an advisor for other climate funds and climate-focused non-profit groups. He started Climate Chat in 2021 on Clubhouse and added YouTube in 2023.

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Leon Simons is a climate scientist based in the Netherlands. He was a co-author with James Hansen on the 2023 "Global Warming in the Pipeline" paper that discussed the recent acceleration in global warming. Leon's work has focused recently on changes in aerosol emissions from ships and the impact of those changes on climate change. You can access Leon's research writings here:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Leon-Simons

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In this Climate Chat episode, we interview author and activist Bill McKibben about his new book, "Here Comes the Sun."

Bill McKibben is the founder of Third Act, which organizes people over the age of 60 for action on climate and justice, and of 350.org, the first global grassroots climate campaign. He’s written more than a dozen books, including The End of Nature, Deep Economy, and Falter, and has been a contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and Rolling Stone. He lives in the mountains of Vermont with his wife, writer Sue Halpern.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

From the acclaimed environmentalist, a call to harness the power of the sun and rewrite our scientific, economic, and political future.

Our climate, and our democracy, are melting down. But Bill McKibben, one of the first to sound the alarm about the climate crisis, insists the moment is also full of possibility. Energy from the sun and wind is suddenly the cheapest power on the planet and growing faster than any energy source in history―if we can keep accelerating the pace, we have a change.

Here Comes the Sun tells the story of the sudden spike in power from the sun and wind―and the desperate fight of the fossil fuel industry and their politicians to hold this new power at bay. From the everyday citizens who installed solar panels equal to a third of Pakistan’s electric grid in a year to the world’s sixth-largest economy―California―nearly halving its use of natural gas in the last two years, Bill McKibben traces the arrival of plentiful, inexpensive solar energy. And he shows how solar power is more than just a path out of the climate crisis: it is a chance to reorder the world on saner and more humane grounds. You can’t hoard solar energy or hold it in reserves―it’s available to all.

There’s no guarantee we can make this change in time, but there is a hope―in McKibben’s eyes, our best hope for a new civilization: one that looks up to the sun, every day, as the star that fuels our world.

Link to Bill's home page: https://billmckibben.com

Buy the book: https://billmckibben.com/books/here-comes-the-sun/

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Dan Miller has been giving talks around the world on the need for urgent climate action for over 20 years. He is co-founder of The Roda Group, a climate-tech venture capital group, and he serves as an advisor for other climate funds and climate-focused non-profit groups. He started Climate Chat in 2021 on Clubhouse and added YouTube in 2023.

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Leon Simons is a climate scientist based in the Netherlands. He was a co-author with James Hansen on the 2023 "Global Warming in the Pipeline" paper that discussed the recent acceleration in global warming. Leon's work has focused recently on changes in aerosol emissions from ships and the impact of those changes on climate change. You can access Leon's research writings here:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Leon-Simons

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In this Climate Chat episode, hosts Dan Miller and Leon Simons discuss climate scientist James Hansen's recent communications about the "Venus Syndrome" and runaway climate.

Link to Hansen's recent communications: "Sophie's Planet: Chapter 10. The Venus Syndrome & Runaway Climate":

https://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2025/VenusSyndrome.2025.08.27.pdf

Link to our recent interview with James Hansen: "What Everyone Must Know About Climate Sensitivity with James Hansen":

https://youtube.com/live/w5jShXBD6ck

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Dan Miller has been giving talks around the world on the need for urgent climate action for over 20 years. He is co-founder of The Roda Group, a climate-tech venture capital group, and he serves as an advisor for other climate funds and climate-focused non-profit groups. He started Climate Chat in 2021 on Clubhouse and added YouTube in 2023.

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Leon Simons is a climate scientist based in the Netherlands. He was a co-author with James Hansen on the 2023 "Global Warming in the Pipeline" paper that discussed the recent acceleration in global warming. Leon's work has focused recently on changes in aerosol emissions from ships and the impact of those changes on climate change. You can access Leon's research writings here:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Leon-Simons

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In this Climate Chat episode, host Dan Miller goes step-by-step through a comment left on the Climate Chat interview with James Hansen that lays out 30 so-called "facts" about climate change that are, in reality, wrong, misleading, or irrelevant (or a combination of those three). The purpose of the exercise is to expose climate denier myths and discuss how climate disinformation is used to slow progress on climate action.

Link to the interview with James Hansen: https://youtube.com/live/w5jShXBD6ck

The specific comment is from @jholt03.

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Dan Miller has been giving talks around the world on the need for urgent climate action for over 20 years. He is co-founder of The Roda Group, a climate-tech venture capital group, and he serves as an advisor for other climate funds and climate-focused non-profit groups. He started Climate Chat in 2021 on Clubhouse and added YouTube in 2023.

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Leon Simons is a climate scientist based in the Netherlands. He was a co-author with James Hansen on the 2023 "Global Warming in the Pipeline" paper that discussed the recent acceleration in global warming. Leon's work has focused recently on changes in aerosol emissions from ships and the impact of those changes on climate change. You can access Leon's research writings here:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Leon-Simons

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In this Climate Chat episode, renowned climate scientist James Hansen returns to Climate Chat to discuss Climate Sensitivity. Climate sensitivity relates to how much the Earth will warm in response "forcings" such as human-caused greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Such warming includes the direct warming in response to the forcing plus warming due to feedbacks to the direct warming. The total short-term "equilibrium" warming will play out over 100~1000 years.

James Hansen and his co-authors (including Climate Chat host Leon Simmons) have said that the "Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity" (ECS) is 4.5ºC for a doubling of CO2, while the IPCC's best estimate is 3ºC. This difference is a "BFD" according to Dr. Hansen and, therefore, the climate sensitivity controversy is a major issue that will impact all humans (and other living things).

Dr. James Hansen, formerly Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, where he directs the Program on Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions. He was trained in physics and astronomy in the space science program of Dr. James Van Allen at the University of Iowa. His early research on the clouds of Venus helped identify their composition as sulfuric acid. Since the late 1970s, he has focused his research on Earth’s climate, especially human-made climate change. Dr. Hansen is best known for his testimony on climate change to congressional committees in the 1980s that helped raise broad awareness of the global warming issue. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1995 and was designated by Time Magazine in 2006 as one of the 100 most influential people on Earth. He has received numerous awards including the Carl-Gustaf Rossby and Roger Revelle Research Medals, the Sophie Prize and the Blue Planet Prize. Dr. Hansen is recognized for speaking truth to power, for identifying ineffectual policies as greenwash, and for outlining actions that the public must take to protect the future of young people and other life on our planet.

Dr. Hansen's paper: "Global Warming in the Pipeline":

https://academic.oup.com/oocc/article/3/1/kgad008/7335889

Dr. Hansen's paper: "Global Warming Has Accelerated: Are the United Nations and the Public Well-Informed?":

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00139157.2025.2434494

Dr. Hansen's recent communications on climate sensitivity: "Seeing the Forest for the Trees":

https://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2025/ForestTrees.06August2025.pdf

Dan Miller & James Hansen's white paper on Carbon Fee & Dividend:

https://csas.earth.columbia.edu/sites/csas.earth.columbia.edu/files/content/Fee-and-Dividend-Miller-Hansen-20191110-1.pdf

Dr. Hansen's webpage: https://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/

Donate to the Columbia Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions Program:

https://csas.earth.columbia.edu/giving

Dr. Hansen's previous Climate Chat interview: Climate Change: What to Know/What to Do with Climate Scientist James Hansen

https://youtube.com/live/8Ag3UVSrlhE

Program on cloud feedbacks: Global Warming➔Fewer Clouds➔More Warming! with George Tselioudis:

https://youtube.com/live/suFZb2ViHoA

Climate Chat "Accelerated Warming" Playlist that includes many programs related to Dr. Hansen's work:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLep9tQgCqjCoEDD7jLXMFZnPL58eLQmZK

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Dan Miller has been giving talks around the world on the need for urgent climate action for over 20 years. He is co-founder of The Roda Group, a climate-tech venture capital group, and he serves as an advisor for other climate funds and climate-focused non-profit groups. He started Climate Chat in 2021 on Clubhouse and added YouTube in 2023.

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Leon Simons is a climate scientist based in the Netherlands. He was a co-author with James Hansen on the 2023 "Global Warming in the Pipeline" paper that discussed the recent acceleration in global warming. Leon's work has focused recently on changes in aerosol emissions from ships and the impact of those changes on climate change. You can access Leon's research writings here:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Leon-Simons

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In this Climate Chat episode, Climate Chat hosts Dan Miller and Leon Simons discuss climate change related quotes and memes. Leave your favorite climate quotes and memes in the comments.

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Dan Miller has been giving talks around the world on the need for urgent climate action for over 20 years. He is co-founder of The Roda Group, a climate-tech venture capital group, and he serves as an advisor for other climate funds and climate-focused non-profit groups. He started Climate Chat in 2021 on Clubhouse and added YouTube in 2023.

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Leon Simons is a climate scientist based in the Netherlands. He was a co-author with James Hansen on the 2023 "Global Warming in the Pipeline" paper that discussed the recent acceleration in global warming. Leon's work has focused recently on changes in aerosol emissions from ships and the impact of those changes on climate change. You can access Leon's research writings here:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Leon-Simons

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In this Climate Chat episode, Climate Chat host Dan Miller answers climate-related questions posted on YouTube, Twitter/X, and Bluesky.

If you would like to view an interview and missed Thursday's discussion with former US Energy Secretary Steven Chu, follow this link:

https://youtube.com/live/16hxH2dTB7o

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Dan Miller has been giving talks around the world on the need for urgent climate action for over 20 years. He is co-founder of The Roda Group, a climate-tech venture capital group, and he serves as an advisor for other climate funds and climate-focused non-profit groups. He started Climate Chat in 2021 on Clubhouse and added YouTube in 2023.

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Leon Simons is a climate scientist based in the Netherlands. He was a co-author with James Hansen on the 2023 "Global Warming in the Pipeline" paper that discussed the recent acceleration in global warming. Leon's work has focused recently on changes in aerosol emissions from ships and the impact of those changes on climate change. You can access Leon's research writings here:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Leon-Simons

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In this Climate Chat episode, we interview former U.S. Secretary of Energy and Nobel Laureate Steven Chu about the state and future of climate change, why political leaders have not addressed climate change seriously, and what can be done to increase action.

Steven Chu is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Physics, of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, and of Energy Science and Engineering at Stanford University. He received an A.B. degree in mathematics and a B.S. degree in physics from the University of Rochester, and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Berkeley, he was at Bell Labs as a member of the technical staff in 1978 and then department head in 1983.

From January 2009 to April, 2013, Dr. Chu served as U.S. Secretary of Energy under President Barack Obama. During his tenure, he began several initiatives, including ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy), the Energy Innovation Hubs, and the Clean Energy Ministerial meetings. As the first scientist Cabinet member, Chu recruited dozens outstanding scientists and engineers to the Department of Energy, and was personally tasked by President Obama to help stop the BP Oil leak.

From 2004-2009, he was the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Professor of Physics and of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California Berkeley. Prior to those positions, he was the Theodore and Francis Geballe Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University. During this time, he helped start Bio-X, a multi-disciplinary initiative combining the physical and biological sciences with engineering and medicine.

His contributions include the introduction of laser cooling and optical trapping of atoms and particles, atomic fountain clocks and atom interferometers, the optical tweezers of biomolecules, and single molecule FRET of biomolecules tethered to surfaces. His current research is in biophysics, molecular and cellular physiology, medical imaging, nanoparticle synthesis and battery research. He has received many awards, including the 1997 Nobel Prize for laser cooling and optical trapping of atoms. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Inventors, and a foreign member of the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Academia Sinica, the Korean Academy of Sciences and Technology and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

He received an A.B. degree in mathematics, and a B.S. degree in physics from the University of Rochester, and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley, and 35 honorary degrees.

Dr. Chu's Stanford page: https://profiles.stanford.edu/steve-chu?tab=bio

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Leon Simons is a climate scientist based in the Netherlands. He was a co-author with James Hansen on the 2023 "Global Warming in the Pipeline" paper that discussed the recent acceleration in global warming. Leon's work has focused recently on changes in aerosol emissions from ships and the impact of those changes on climate change. You can access Leon's research writings here:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Leon-Simons

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Dan Miller has been giving talks around the world on the need for urgent climate action for over 20 years. He is co-founder of The Roda Group, a climate-tech venture capital group, and he serves as an advisor for other climate funds and climate-focused non-profit groups. He started Climate Chat in 2021 on Clubhouse and added YouTube in 2023.

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In this Climate Chat episode, Leon Simons interviews University of Exeter climate scientist Peter Cox about the acceleration of global warming, climate tipping points, and other climate-related subjects.

Professor Peter Cox is Professor of Climate System Dynamics in Mathematics and the Director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter. He has previously worked at the Met Office-Hadley Centre (1990-2004) and the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (2004-2006).

He is an international leader in the understanding of interactions between the land biosphere and climate change. He led the team that carried-out the first climate simulations to include the carbon cycle and vegetation as interactive components (Cox et al., 2000), which highlighted the possibility of Amazon Forest dieback under climate change (Cox et al., 2004). Professor Cox is a lead author on the 4th, 5th and 6th Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and a member of the UK Government’s Defra Scientific Advisory Council. He has been named as a highly-cited author by Thomson-Reuters for every year from 2014 onwards and won an ERC Advanced Grant in 2017.

Professor Cox has made outstanding contributions to research within the field of climate change. His work was central to the early development of the Met Office Hadley Centre, where he held several positions including Head of Climate, Chemistry and Ecosystems, and from 2006 he has been driving the development of world-leading climate research at the University of Exeter.

Peter's University of Exeter page: https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/962-peter-cox

Peter's Google Scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=7S1cuNwAAAAJ&hl=en

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Leon Simons is a climate scientist based in the Netherlands. He was a co-author with James Hansen on the 2023 "Global Warming in the Pipeline" paper that discussed the recent acceleration in global warming. Leon's work has focused recently on changes in aerosol emissions from ships and the impact of those changes on climate change. You can access Leon's research writings here:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Leon-Simons

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Dan Miller has been giving talks around the world on the need for urgent climate action for over 20 years. He is co-founder of The Roda Group, a climate-tech venture capital group, and he serves as an advisor for other climate funds and climate-focused non-profit groups. He started Climate Chat in 2021 on Clubhouse and added YouTube in 2023.

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