The ocean is vast and complex, but I’m sure we can fix climate change by dumping a bunch of algae food into it.

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• Ali, S. (2021, November 22). Controversial practice of seeding clouds to create rainfall becoming popular in the American West. The Hill. 
• American University. (2020, June 24). Fact Sheet: Ocean Alkalinization. American University. 
• Berardelli, J. (2018, November 23). Controversial spraying method aims to curb global warming. Cbsnews.com. 
• Biello, D. (2012, July 12). Controversial Spewed Iron Experiment Succeeds as Carbon Sink. Scientific American. 
• Boyd, P., & Vivian, C. (2019). Should we fertilize oceans or seed clouds? No one knows. Nature, 570(7760), 155–157. 
• Brogan, J. (2016a, January 6). Can We Stop Climate Change by Tinkering With the Atmosphere? Slate Magazine; Slate. 
• Brogan, J. (2016b, January 6). Your Geoengineering Cheat Sheet. Slate. 
• Buckley, C. (2024, February 2). Could a Giant Parasol in Outer Space Help Solve the Climate Crisis? The New York Times. 
• Chu, J. (2020, February 17). Seeding oceans with iron may not impact climate change. MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 
• Clegg, B. (2016, July 23). The Planet Remade - Oliver Morton ****. Popsciencebooks.blogspot.com. 
• Cohen, A. (2021, January 11). A Bill Gates Venture Aims To Spray Dust Into The Atmosphere To Block The Sun. What Could Go Wrong? Forbes. 
• Collins, G. (2016, January 15). Geoengineering’s Moral Hazard Problem. Slate. 
• Geoengineering Monitor. (2021, April 9). Ocean Fertilization (technology briefing). Geoengineering Monitor. 
• Hickel, J., & Slamersak, A. (2022). Existing climate mitigation scenarios perpetuate colonial inequalities. The Lancet Planetary Health, 6(7), e628–e631. 
• IPCC95. (1995). INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE IPCC Second Assessment Climate Change 1995 A REPORT OF THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE. 
• Jiang, X., Zhao, X., Sun, X., Roberts, A. P., Appy Sluijs, Chou, Y.-M., Yao, W., Xing, J., Zhang, W., & Liu, Q. (2024). Iron fertilization–induced deoxygenation of eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean intermediate waters during the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum. Geology. 
• Kaufman, R. (2019, March 11). The Risks, Rewards and Possible Ramifications of Geoengineering Earth’s Climate. Smithsonian; Smithsonian.com. 
• Keith, D. W. (2000). Geoengineering the Climate: History and Prospect. Annual Review of Energy and the Environment, 25(1), 245–284. 
• Mandel, K. (2015, September 29). Everyone Warned the Breakthrough Ecomodernists To Avoid Toxic Owen Paterson – But They Said “F@*%You.” DeSmog. 
• McKenzie, J. (2022, August 11). Dodging silver bullets: how cloud seeding could go wrong. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. 
• Monbiot, G. (2015, September 24). Meet the ecomodernists: ignorant of history and paradoxically old-fashioned. The Guardian. 
• Morton, O. (2012, August 9). On Geoengineering. The Breakthrough Institute. 
• Morton, O. (2016). The planet remade : how geoengineering could change the world. Princeton University Press.
• National Academy of Sciences. (1992). Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming: Mitigation, Adaptation, and the Science Base. In National Academies Press. National Academies Press. 
• Robock, A. (2008). 20 reasons why geoengineering may be a bad idea. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 64(2), 14–18. 
• Rubin, A. J., & Denton, B. (2022, August 28). Cloud Wars: Mideast Rivalries Rise Along a New Front. The New York Times. 
• Schneider, S. H. (2008). Geoengineering: could we or should we make it work? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 366(1882), 3843–3862. 
• Seabrook, V. (2016, October 10). Professor Brian Cox and Co Take Down Climate Science Deniers’ Arguments, Discuss Brexit. DeSmog. 
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• Stephens, J. C., & Surprise, K. (2020). The hidden injustices of advancing solar geoengineering research. Global Sustainability, 3. 
• Temple, J. (2019, August 9). What is geoengineering—and why should you care? MIT Technology Review. 
• Temple, J. (2022, July 1). The US government is developing a solar geoengineering research plan. MIT Technology Review. 
• The Breakthrough Institute. (2015, April 1). An Ecomodernist Manifesto - English. The Breakthrough Institute. 
• Tollefson, J. (2018). First sun-dimming experiment will test a way to cool Earth. Nature, 563(7733), 613–615. 
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• Vetter, D. (2022, January 20). Solar Geoengineering: Why Bill Gates Wants It, But These Experts Want To Stop It. Forbes. 
• Vidal, J. (2012, February 6). Bill Gates backs climate scientists lobbying for large-scale geoengineering. The Guardian. 
• Visioni, D., Slessarev, E., MacMartin, D. G., Mahowald, N. M., Goodale, C. L., & Xia, L. (2020). What goes up must come down: impacts of deposition in a sulfate geoengineering scenario. Environmental Research Letters, 15(9), 094063. 
• Wagner, G. (2016, December 8). The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World by Oliver Morton. Www.ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org. 
• Yonekura, E. (2022, October 19). Why Not Space Mirrors? The Rand Blog. 

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• Nicole states that harassing a manatee is a felony. It is, in fact, a very expensive misdemeanor, punishable by fines up to $100,000 and/or one year in prison. (Source)

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• Ali, S. (2021, November 22). Controversial practice of seeding clouds to create rainfall becoming popular in the American West. The Hill. 
• American University. (2020, June 24). Fact Sheet: Ocean Alkalinization. American University. 
• Berardelli, J. (2018, November 23). Controversial spraying method aims to curb global warming. Cbsnews.com. 
• Biello, D. (2012, July 12). Controversial Spewed Iron Experiment Succeeds as Carbon Sink. Scientific American. 
• Boyd, P., & Vivian, C. (2019). Should we fertilize oceans or seed clouds? No one knows. Nature, 570(7760), 155–157. 
• Brogan, J. (2016a, January 6). Can We Stop Climate Change by Tinkering With the Atmosphere? Slate Magazine; Slate. 
• Brogan, J. (2016b, January 6). Your Geoengineering Cheat Sheet. Slate. 
• Buckley, C. (2024, February 2). Could a Giant Parasol in Outer Space Help Solve the Climate Crisis? The New York Times. 
• Chu, J. (2020, February 17). Seeding oceans with iron may not impact climate change. MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 
• Clegg, B. (2016, July 23). The Planet Remade - Oliver Morton ****. Popsciencebooks.blogspot.com. 
• Cohen, A. (2021, January 11). A Bill Gates Venture Aims To Spray Dust Into The Atmosphere To Block The Sun. What Could Go Wrong? Forbes. 
• Collins, G. (2016, January 15). Geoengineering’s Moral Hazard Problem. Slate. 
• Geoengineering Monitor. (2021, April 9). Ocean Fertilization (technology briefing). Geoengineering Monitor. 
• Hickel, J., & Slamersak, A. (2022). Existing climate mitigation scenarios perpetuate colonial inequalities. The Lancet Planetary Health, 6(7), e628–e631. 
• IPCC95. (1995). INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE IPCC Second Assessment Climate Change 1995 A REPORT OF THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE. 
• Jiang, X., Zhao, X., Sun, X., Roberts, A. P., Appy Sluijs, Chou, Y.-M., Yao, W., Xing, J., Zhang, W., & Liu, Q. (2024). Iron fertilization–induced deoxygenation of eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean intermediate waters during the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum. Geology. 
• Kaufman, R. (2019, March 11). The Risks, Rewards and Possible Ramifications of Geoengineering Earth’s Climate. Smithsonian; Smithsonian.com. 
• Keith, D. W. (2000). Geoengineering the Climate: History and Prospect. Annual Review of Energy and the Environment, 25(1), 245–284. 
• Mandel, K. (2015, September 29). Everyone Warned the Breakthrough Ecomodernists To Avoid Toxic Owen Paterson – But They Said “F@*%You.” DeSmog. 
• McKenzie, J. (2022, August 11). Dodging silver bullets: how cloud seeding could go wrong. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. 
• Monbiot, G. (2015, September 24). Meet the ecomodernists: ignorant of history and paradoxically old-fashioned. The Guardian. 
• Morton, O. (2012, August 9). On Geoengineering. The Breakthrough Institute. 
• Morton, O. (2016). The planet remade : how geoengineering could change the world. Princeton University Press.
• National Academy of Sciences. (1992). Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming: Mitigation, Adaptation, and the Science Base. In National Academies Press. National Academies Press. 
• Robock, A. (2008). 20 reasons why geoengineering may be a bad idea. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 64(2), 14–18. 
• Rubin, A. J., & Denton, B. (2022, August 28). Cloud Wars: Mideast Rivalries Rise Along a New Front. The New York Times. 
• Schneider, S. H. (2008). Geoengineering: could we or should we make it work? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 366(1882), 3843–3862. 
• Seabrook, V. (2016, October 10). Professor Brian Cox and Co Take Down Climate Science Deniers’ Arguments, Discuss Brexit. DeSmog. 
• Solar Geoengineering Non-Use Agreement. (n.d.). Solar Geoengineering Non-Use Agreement. Solar Geoengineering Non-Use Agreement. 
• Stephens, J. C., & Surprise, K. (2020). The hidden injustices of advancing solar geoengineering research. Global Sustainability, 3. 
• Temple, J. (2019, August 9). What is geoengineering—and why should you care? MIT Technology Review. 
• Temple, J. (2022, July 1). The US government is developing a solar geoengineering research plan. MIT Technology Review. 
• The Breakthrough Institute. (2015, April 1). An Ecomodernist Manifesto - English. The Breakthrough Institute. 
• Tollefson, J. (2018). First sun-dimming experiment will test a way to cool Earth. Nature, 563(7733), 613–615. 
• Unit, B. (2017, March 23). Climate-related Geoengineering and Biodiversity. Www.cbd.int. 
• UNODA. (1978, October 5). Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques (ENMOD) – UNODA. United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs. 
• Vetter, D. (2022, January 20). Solar Geoengineering: Why Bill Gates Wants It, But These Experts Want To Stop It. Forbes. 
• Vidal, J. (2012, February 6). Bill Gates backs climate scientists lobbying for large-scale geoengineering. The Guardian. 
• Visioni, D., Slessarev, E., MacMartin, D. G., Mahowald, N. M., Goodale, C. L., & Xia, L. (2020). What goes up must come down: impacts of deposition in a sulfate geoengineering scenario. Environmental Research Letters, 15(9), 094063. 
• Wagner, G. (2016, December 8). The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World by Oliver Morton. Www.ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org. 
• Yonekura, E. (2022, October 19). Why Not Space Mirrors? The Rand Blog.

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Great news! We’re back with a second season of Finland’s 8th favorite comedy podcast, The Climate Denier’s Playbook! Full episodes dropping in early March, and in the meantime, we’re here to give you a little peek at the climate myths we’ll be ghost-busting for Season 2. We’ll also answer some listener-submitted questions, and even crack wise about a fun little Tucker Carlson clip that didn’t fit anywhere else in the season. 

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• World On Fire - YouTube [Nicole’s YouTube channel!]
• Carlson, Tucker (2024, Jan 9). The Tucker Carlson Encounter: The Truth About Fossil Fuels

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In his defense, how much could the climate possibly have changed in the 6,000 years the earth has existed?

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SOURCES

• New US House speaker tried to help overturn the 2020 election, raising concerns about the next one. (2023, October 26). AP News.
• Hall, M. (n.d.). New Speaker Mike Johnson says the way to learn how feels about any issue is to read the Bible: “That’s my worldview, that’s what I believe.” Business Insider. 
• Staff, P. P. (2023, October 25). Here’s where Speaker Mike Johnson stands on the issues. POLITICO.
• New House speaker’s views on LGBTQ issues come under fresh scrutiny. (2023, October 26). NBC News.
• Macnaughton, S. (2023, October 29). Inside the Alliance Defending Freedom, the Anti-LGBTQ Org Where Mike Johnson Spent Almost a Decade. Rolling Stone.
• Nast, C. (2023, October 26). Election Denial, “Sexual Anarchy,” Noah’s Ark: All the Mike Johnson Details We Regret to Inform You Of. Vanity Fair.
• Hamilton, M. A. (2023, November 4). Mike Johnson, theocrat: the House speaker and a plot against America. The Guardian.
• Griffiths, B. D. (n.d.). Kelly Johnson, who is married to House Speaker Mike Johnson, practices a form of Christian counseling that classifies people into “choleric”, “phlegmatic,” and other ancient personality types purportedly ordained by God. Business Insider.
• New House Speaker Thinks Creationist Museum Is “Pointing People To The Truth.” (2023, October 26). HuffPost.
• Tait, R. (2023, October 26). House speaker once won taxpayer funds for Noah’s Ark park accused of bias. The Guardian.
• U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson and Climate Change. (n.d.). The Shreveport Times,
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• Ramanujan, K. (2021, October 19). More than 99.9% of studies agree: Humans caused climate change. Cornell Chronicle; Cornell University. 
• Watts, J. (2021, October 19). “Case closed”: 99.9% of scientists agree climate emergency caused by humans. The Guardian.
• Lynas, M., Houlton, B. Z., & Perry, S. (2021). Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change in the peer-reviewed scientific literature. Environmental Research Letter
• Johnson, U. S. R. M. (n.d.). Rep. Johnson: Paris climate deal was bad for U.S. The Shreveport Times.
• Republican Study Committee Backgrounder: A Greedy New Steal, 13 Page Report. Mike Johnson. Washington Times.
• Johnson, Mike. “This bill will raise taxes on the middle class and increase prices for consumers.” X (Formerly Twitter).
• Who is running for House speaker? These are the Republicans aiming for the top job after Jordan’s exit. (n.d.). USA TODAY.
• Mike Johnson’s Environmental Voting Record. League of Conservation Voters Scorecard.
• Friedman, L. (2023, October 26). New House Speaker Champions Fossil Fuels and Dismisses Climate Concerns. The New York Times. 
• Brugger, E. D., Kelsey. (2023, October 25). Mike Johnson, a climate science skeptic, is speaker nominee. E&E News by POLITICO. 
• House Speaker Mike Johnson’s First Big Bill Cuts Biden’s Climate Change Funding. (2023, October 26). Bloomberg. 
• Brugger, E. D., Kelsey. (2023, October 4). What McCarthy’s fall means for energy, environment policy. E&E News by POLITICO. 
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• New House Speaker Widens Partisan Climate Divide. (2023, October 29). Bloomberg.com. 
• Trubek, A. (2019, December 18). Jim Jordan’s Gerrymandered District - Belt Magazine. Beltmag.com.
• North Carolina’s new GOP gerrymander could flip four House seats. (2023, October 25). POLITICO.

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How can America be expected to lead when we don’t want to?!

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• Haley, N. (2023, August 23). 2024 First Republican Presidential Debate in FULL. YouTube.
• Kurz, J. (2020, February 28). ‘But what about China and India?’ National Observer.
• European Commission. (2022). CO2 emissions of all world countries. EDGAR - The Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research.
• Our Changing Climate. (2023, May 5). Why China Isn’t the Problem. YouTube.
• Carbon footprint hotspots: Mapping China’s export-driven emissions. (2020, May 7). University of Michigan News.
• Friedman, L. (2023, July 19). U.S. and China on Climate: How the World’s Two Largest Polluters Stack Up. The New York Times.
• Evans, S. (2021, October 5). Analysis: Which countries are historically responsible for climate change? Carbon Brief.
• Union of Concerned Scientists. (2023, July 12). Each Country’s Share of CO2 Emissions. Union of Concerned Scientists.
• Yeung, J., Gan, N., & George, S. (2021, August 23). Analysis: Beijing’s fight for cleaner air is a rare victory for public dissent. CNN. 
• Mailloux, N. A., Abel, D. W., Holloway, T., & Patz, J. A. (2022). Nationwide and regional PM2.5-related air quality health benefits from the removal of energy-related emissions in the United States. GeoHealth, 6, e2022GH000603.
• Hersher, R. (2022, May 17). Eliminating fossil fuel air pollution would save about 50,000 lives, study finds. NPR.
• Mathiesen, K., & Posaner, J. (2023, September 15). How China schooled the West on climate change. POLITICO.
• Schonhardt, S. (2023, January 30). China Invests $546 Billion in Clean Energy, Far Surpassing the U.S. Scientific American. 
• McGeever, J. (2023, August 20). The ultimate 2023 consensus-buster - US grows faster than China? Reuters.
• Gross Domestic Product, Fourth Quarter and Year 2022 (Third Estimate), GDP by Industry, and Corporate Profits. (2023, March 30). Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA).
• Gross domestic product (GDP) at current prices in China from 1985 to 2022 with forecasts until 2028. (2023). Statista.
• Gallagher, K. S. (2023, August 3). The Right Way for America and China to Cooperate on Climate. Foreign Affairs.
• Begert, B. (2023, September 12). Newsom announces climate-focused trip to China. POLITICO.

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RED ALERT! The shadowy deep-state cabal of coastal elites that controls the world is using “ESGs” and wOkE CaPiTaLiSm to kneecap the American entrepreneurial spirit!

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• The Ingraham Angle. (2022, September 22). Fox News via Media Matters. 
• Little Rock Public Radio. (2023, March 22). Audio recording reveals coordinated push against ESG investing. University of Arkansas at Little Rock. 
• Capitalisn’t: The Smoke and Mirrors of ESG Investing. (n.d.). The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
• Pucker, K. P., & King, A. (2022, August 1). ESG Investing Isn’t Designed to Save the Planet. Harvard Business Review.
• Dierking, D. (2022, May 19). S&P 500 ESG Index: Tesla Out, ExxonMobil In. ETF Focus on TheStreet: ETF Research and Trade Ideas.
• Hillsdale College. “Woke Capitalism Against America | Vivek Ramaswamy.” (2021, May 20) Appears at 8:29. YouTube. 
• Pollman, E. (2022, 15 September). The Making and Meaning of ESG. U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 22-23. European Corporate Governance Institute.
• Fink, L. (2021). Larry Fink's 2021 letter to CEOs. BlackRock.
• Phillips, M. (2021, June 9). Exxon’s Board Defeat Signals the Rise of Social-Good Activists. The New York Times.
• Taft, M. (2022, October 21). The Right-Wing Groups Behind the War on ESG. The New Republic.
• Vogel, K. P. (2022, October 12). Leonard Leo Pushed the Courts Right. Now He’s Aiming at American Society. The New York Times.
• Floodlight, A. A. (2023, June 12). Lawmakers passed a bill to stop insurers from considering ESG criteria in setting rates. The Texas Tribune.
• D. Garrett et al. Gas, guns, and governments: Financial costs of anti-ESG policies. (n.d.). Brookings.
• Surgey, A. K. B. (n.d.). Inside the “Private and Confidential” Conservative Group That Promises to “Crush Liberal Dominance.” ProPublica.
• Hoyle, E. (2023, July 12). MEMO: Leonard Leo Pulls the Strings Behind MAGA House 
• Masters, B. (2022, December 14). Vanguard spared ESG grilling in Texas after ditching green alliance. Financial Times.
• Lange, J. (2023, May 10).Congress’ ESG Hearing Was Seriously Weird. Heatmap.news. 
• Qiu, L. (2023, March 15). No, “Wokeness” Did Not Cause Silicon Valley Bank’s Collapse. The New York Times.
• 2023 Statehouse Anti-ESG Report. (n.d.). Pleiades Strategy. 
• 2023 ESG State Legislation Wrap Up. (n.d.). Www.klgates.com.
• Rives, K. (2023, June 28) Half of anti-ESG bills in red states have failed in 2023 as campaign pushes on. (n.d.). S&P Global.
• Marino, K. (2023, February 22). Texas’ “anti-woke” policies cost taxpayers millions. Axios.
• Muñiz, L. B., March 20, I. C. C., & 2023. (2023, March 20). Indiana pension system contracts with conservative anti-ESG firm. Indiana Capital Chronicle.

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On a very special episode, Nicole and Rollie talk about their origin story, how they got into comedy and climate change, and more. You’ll NEVER guess what happened next! 

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CORRECTIONS

• This episode refers to the Hoover Institution as the Hoover Institute, which is pretty close, but that’s not actually what it's called. 

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