The inaugural Weekly Climate podcast episode. 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.
Summary: It has been a week full of good, bad and weird news. Among the good news are the $89B of stranded assets recently reported by seven of the oil majors, a UK solar company beats the world record in solar panel efficiency, and a report shows that renewable energy deployment have doubled over the past 5 years. On the bad side, the week saw the death of a famous climate scientist (due to an accident), the second hottest month ever recorded on the planet and the melting of Greenland ice sheets may have reached a point of no return. Among the weird were BPs announcement of winding down oil production and the following environmental movements applause.