The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night features co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale talking about the week’s news with:

* The Kākā’s climate correspondent Cathrine Dyer on the latest climate news, including research suggesting a doubling of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could trigger 8° of warming in the long run;

* Robert Patman on the escalating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon, Vladimir Putin’s latest nuclear threats, Winston Peters’ comments this at the UN General Assembly;

* Matt Halliday on the 'F list' of ad and PR agencies helping fossil fuel companies in NZ. He also talked about a court case on greenwashing launched by activist Mike Smith (Guardian) and one against Z Energy by Consumer NZ, Lawyers for Climate Action and the Environmental Law Initiative. (RNZ)

The Hoon’s podcast version above was recorded on Thursday night during a live webinar for over 120 paying subscribers and was produced by Simon Josey.

Bernard mentioned at the beginning of the episode he would be interviewing former Kāinga Ora director Philippa Howden-Chapman at a public event in Auckland from 6.30 pm tonight. Details are here.

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Ngā mihi nui.

Bernard

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