20 degrees warmer than normal. Bugger all sea ice. WTF is going on in the Arctic? We interview clever person Dr Mark Brandon to find out.Also this week, heroic old people defending trees in Sheffield and a much deserved promotion for that nice Mr Inhofe.Sustainababble is your weekly comedy podcast about politics, prattle and the planet.Music by Dicky Moore from Bearcraft and Dream Themes.Available on iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud, and on sustainababble.fish. Visit us at @thebabblewagon and at Facebook.com/sustainababble

Are children an unjustifiable burden on the planet, as well as noisy and financially ruinous? And why on earth are Ol and Dave talking about them all of a sudden?Also this week, the triumphant return of Boaty McBoatface and a new section dedicated to that nice Mr Trump.Sustainababble is your weekly comedy podcast about politics, prattle and the planet.Music by Dicky Moore from Bearcraft and Dream Themes.Available on iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud, and on sustainababble.fish. Visit us at @thebabblewagon and at Facebook.com/sustainababble

The world's most notorious climate denier is about to become the most world's most powerful man. AAARGH!Ol and Dave, back from their hols, are properly freaking out. Is it time to put away the placards and give up?  Has America just doomed the planet?They interview American climate campaigner Janet Redman (@janetredman_DC) in  search for some reasons to be even slightly cheerful.  And, surprisingly, they actually find some.Sustainababble is your weekly comedy podcast about politics, prattle and the planet.Music by Dicky Moore from Bearcraft and Dream Themes.Available on iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud, and on sustainababble.fish. Visit us at @thebabblewagon and at Facebook.com/sustainababble

Is it only ethical to eat meat you kill yourself? We interview author and journalist Louise Gray, who spent a year doing just that.We find out what it's really like inside an abattoir, how likely you are to be a psychopath if you work there, and whether the thrill of the hunt is a real thing.  And we ask: should everyone be prepared to kill animals if they want to eat meat?Louise's book, 'The Ethical Carnivore', is out now.Sustainababble is your weekly comedy podcast about politics, prattle and the planet.Music by Dicky Moore from Bearcraft and Dream Themes.Available on iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud, and on sustainababble.fish. Visit us at @thebabblewagon and at Facebook.com/sustainababble

The UK's nature is in a state, say the country's biggest green charities, and they're blaming the farmers. Is that fair? Have farmers REALLY got beef with the hedgehogs and the bunny rabbits? Why? And should they have all their subsidies taken away?Plus, we interview superstar investigative journalist Kyla Mandel from Desmog UK about ExxonMobil's sneaky lobbying against electric cars.And is Dave going to have to eat grass until he's sick?Sustainababble is your weekly comedy podcast about politics, prattle and the planet. Out Mondays.Music by Dicky Moore from Bearcraft and Dream Themes.Available on iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud, and on sustainababble.fish. Visit us at @thebabblewagon and at Facebook.com/sustainababble

Is running the country on renewables REALLY 'fanciful nonsense' that'll make all the lights go out? How likely are blackouts? What causes them? And is YOUR fridge downloading nudey pictures when you're not looking? We talk to an energy expert with a large brain, Alasdair Cameron, to find out.Also, there's some major babble from burbling miners in Druridge Bay - and as the world's two biggest polluters ratify the Paris Agreement, why are there STILL so many reasons to be glum?Sustainababble is your weekly comedy podcast about politics, prattle and the planet. Out Mondays.Music by Dicky Moore from Bearcraft and Dream Themes.Available on iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud, and on sustainababble.fish. Visit us at @thebabblewagon and at Facebook.com/sustainababble

Ol and Dave chat to Amy Liptrot about The Outrun, Amy's phenomenally successful debut book in which she discovers how the wild can restore life and renew hope.Recently out in paperback, The Outrun is this year's winner of the Wainwright prize for UK nature and travel writing, and Waterstones' September 2016 non-fiction book of the month.More importantly, it's bloody amazing, and you should buy it and read it.Photo of Amy Liptrot (c) The Orcadian.Songs featured in this week's episode include:Birdwoman by Poppy Ackroyd; The Silver Birch by The Magnetic North; Wasting My Young Years by London Grammar; The Creelman by Orkney Fiddle Gathering; Hyperballad by Björk; Wild is the Wind by David Bowie.Sustainababble is your weekly comedy podcast about politics, prattle and the planet. Out Mondays.Music by Dicky Moore from Bearcraft and Dream Themes.Available on iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud, and on sustainababble.fish. Visit us at @thebabblewagon and at Facebook.com/sustainababble

Very big numbers of iddybiddy bits of plastic in the sea, and it's all the fault of YOUR face scrubs. Should we ban microbeads? Who thought they were a good idea in the first place? And what's it all got to do with Dave's jam tarts?All this, and WOMBATS FIGHT BACK - not before time, by the sound of it.Sustainababble is your weekly comedy podcast about politics, prattle and the planet. Out Mondays.Music by Dicky Moore from Bearcraft and Dream Themes.Available on iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud, and on sustainababble.fish. Visit us at @thebabblewagon and at Facebook.com/sustainababble

Bio-what? Good question. We find out, via mining in the article circle and the age old question "how many chaffinches equals one owl?"Also this week, bees related babble, a model Inhofe, and Arabella pronouncing a complicated word that Dave cannot.Sustainababble is your weekly comedy podcast about politics, prattle and the planet. Out Mondays.Music by Dicky Moore from Bearcraft and Dream Themes.Available on iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud, and on sustainababble.fish. Visit us at @thebabblewagon and at Facebook.com/sustainababble

There's been a lot of squabbling about grouse shooting with Ian Botham and Chris Packham taking, er, shots at each other. Why? Can hunting animals really be good for conservation?We've got a revolutionary American township that's changing the law to stop the frackers, and we find out when a bribe isn't a bribe really.All this, and Dave's got a fact so good it gets its own feature.Sustainababble is your weekly comedy podcast about politics, prattle and the planet. Out Mondays.Music by Dicky Moore from Bearcraft and Dream Themes.Available on iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud, and on sustainababble.fish. Visit us at @thebabblewagon and at Facebook.com/sustainababble