In this second episode we opened up a live Q&A, with a long list of great questions submitted before the show and live online, thanks to all of you that contributed!

We covered all sorts of issues like starting a PhD project on Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage, BECCS, holistic conversations on capitalism and carbon storage, Canadian politics and climate on the curriculum in schools, risk-based climate communication, the UK government saving British Steel and the end of Net Zero 2025, the cost living crisis versus the equality crisis, structural barriers in science that researchers in the global south face, the State of Climate Report 2024 and how Europe has been impacted.

Recorded online, April 16, 2025. Music by Coma-Media on Pixabay.

www.cemus.uu.se/fireside

The Fireside Carbon Chat 🔥 A No-Nonsense Climate Podcast with Kevin Anderson

In this fiery podcast climate scientist Kevin Anderson cuts through the lies and smokescreens of how to deal with one of the greatest challenges of our life-times! Join us around the fire and in throwing new logs into the climate debate. The podcast will highlight other people’s work and voices through interviews by Kevin or a guest host, and focus good examples of good work that is already going on in the world. We will also do in-depth interviews around Kevin’s work, and record shorter comments with honest and grounded critique. We hope you will learn something new and useful, and inspire to meaningful and effective action on climate and connected issues.

Kevin Anderson is professor of Energy and Climate Change, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Manchester, visiting researcher, Uppsala University, and a long time CEMUS contributor. He is one of the world’s leading climate scientist and most influential voices in the climate debate. He has pioneered research on carbon budgets and pathways to acceptable mitigation levels, and worked on the technical, social and economic interactions involved in the transformation of energy systems, the mitigation and adaptation to climate change. Kevin is the Manchester host of the podcast.

Daniel Mossberg is lead outreach and educational coordinator at CEMUS, Uppsala University with over 20 years of experience of working on climate change in education and different courses at CEMUS. He started and conceptualized one of the longest running climate conferences, ClimateExistence, focusing on intersection between the existential and climate issues. Daniel is the producer and Uppsala host of the podcast.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this first ever episode of The Fireside Carbon Chat 🔥 A No-Nonsense Climate Podcast with Kevin Anderson we talk about the AMOC and other tipping points, and their connection to the carbon budget framework. We look at how far the world has come on climate and the Paris Agreement, 10 years on, discuss James Hansen's recent work, try to add a new slide to Kevin's presentation and lots more!

We also get a more personal introduction to Kevin and his life and what we hope to do in coming episode of the podcast.

Recorded at CEMUS, in Uppsala, February 28, 2025. Music by Coma-Media on Pixabay.

www.cemus.uu.se/fireside

The Fireside Carbon Chat 🔥 A No-Nonsense Climate Podcast with Kevin Anderson

In this fiery podcast climate scientist Kevin Anderson cuts through the lies and smokescreens of how to deal with one of the greatest challenges of our life-times! Join us around the fire and in throwing new logs into the climate debate. The podcast will highlight other people’s work and voices through interviews by Kevin or a guest host, and focus good examples of good work that is already going on in the world. We will also do in-depth interviews around Kevin’s work, and record shorter comments with honest and grounded critique. We hope you will learn something new and useful, and inspire to meaningful and effective action on climate and connected issues.

Kevin Anderson is professor of Energy and Climate Change, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Manchester, visiting researcher, Uppsala University, and a long time CEMUS contributor. He is one of the world’s leading climate scientist and most influential voices in the climate debate. He has pioneered research on carbon budgets and pathways to acceptable mitigation levels, and worked on the technical, social and economic interactions involved in the transformation of energy systems, the mitigation and adaptation to climate change. Kevin is the Manchester host of the podcast.

Daniel Mossberg is lead outreach and educational coordinator at CEMUS, Uppsala University with over 20 years of experience of working on climate change in education and different courses at CEMUS. He started and conceptualized one of the longest running climate conferences, ClimateExistence, focusing on intersection between the existential and climate issues. Daniel is the producer and Uppsala host of the podcast.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.