The Weekly Climate

Welcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!

I’m trying out a new recording app this week, so the episodes have a lot fewer sound effects and other stuff. I had a minor leveling issue with one part of the recording, so please bear with me while I use this otherwise much better app. 

This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.

For the full shownotes please go to https://www.weeklyclimate.com

News you can’t miss:

🙀 Be careful if you try to buy an F-gas free fridge, you may still get one that contains F-gases.

😻 YoY increase in wind capacity installed was 59% in 2020

😼 A look at the roadmap for virtual power plants and what’s needed for this technology to truly make a difference.

💩 Big “green” PR firm Edelman caught with its pants down for taking fossil fuel money

Welcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!

NB! Due to a bug in Anchor.fm that I’m using to record this podcast, a bug that has been persisting now for multiple months this episode might be missing the final “goodbye” sequence. If that is the case I apologize. I’m actively looking for other tools to use as they don’t seem to want to fix this bug.

This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.

For the full shownotes please go to https://www.weeklyclimate.com

News you can’t miss:

🙀 The world pledges emissions cuts, then how come we do not expect to lower emissions by more than 0.5% by 2030?!We should be at 50% there.

😻 Marine sites all across the world lock away a total of 5Gt of CO2

😼 A new study has calculated the difference in life-cycle material use between an EV and an ICE car.

💩 Japan, US and Germany was singled out by Antonio Guterres in a speech recently, because these countries have no plans to phase out coal by 2030.

Welcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!

This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.

For the full shownotes please go to https://www.weeklyclimate.com

News you can’t miss:

🙀 Did you know that supermarkets (in the US alone) emit 2.6Gt of CO2eq into the atmosphere due to F-gas emissions?

😻 Mining giants are saying goodbye to coal. Hopefully for good.

😼 CarbonBrief goes deep into what health benefits we can expect if we decide to solve the climate crisis.

💩 Texas suffered a lot of blackouts from the recent extreme cold caused by the polar vortex. The cause: Mainly fossil gas outages, but also other sources.

Welcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!

This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.

For the full shownotes please go to https://www.weeklyclimate.com

News you can’t miss:

🙀 Updated numbers suggest that fossil fuel based pollution kills 8.7 million (up from 7.5M) every year.

😻 Surprisingly, a NASA-based study has shown that economic growth in Africa is not followed by a corresponding increase in emissions.

😼 A detailed look at what the average consumer can do with the pension plan to help solve the climate crisis.

💩 Shell has joined the peak oil gang and has come with a rather unimpressive planfor how to get to net-zero.

Welcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!

This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.

For the full shownotes please go to https://www.weeklyclimate.com

News you can’t miss:

🙀 If you’re wondering about the negative effects the climate crisis has on your health, New York Times has a detailed list.

😻 Some things are actually going better in the fight to solve the climate crisis than the worst predictions laid out.

😼 Steel plants have a big footprint and this week Grist looks at the paths that steel plants have to decarbonize.

💩 The fossil fuel industry is busy pushing propaganda using their favorite PR companies about what Biden’s climate action really means.

Welcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!

This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.

For the full shownotes please go to https://www.weeklyclimate.com

News you can’t miss:

🙀 A new study has found that the annual rate of ice loss has increase 57% since 1994.

😻 Renewables (wind and solar) generation overtook coal generation just barely in 2020 in the EU.

😼 An interesting worldwide overview of different climate risks.

💩 Alberta is similar to China trying to scare journalists away from reporting on their environmental “crimes” against their own territory.

Welcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!

This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.

For the full shownotes please go to https://www.weeklyclimate.com

News you can’t miss:

🙀 The next major IPCC report goes to governments for acceptance without pointing fingers at the fossil fuel industry. Why?

😻 A new startup is offering a cheaper alternative than kerosene for lighting in non-electrified regions in Sub-Sarahan Africa: Solar powered battery packs run by women in the local community.

😼 A Danish journalist was harassed by Chinese authorities for looking into the explosion in the number of coal power plants being built in the country. (Unfortunately, article is only available in Danish, see below for more info).

💩 Total has decided not to renew it’s membership to the biggest US fossil fuel industry lobby citing disagreements over climate policy. Hey! This is not bad!