Climate Conversations

by Robert McLean

A continuous conversation about climate change - news, views and interviews.

Recent Episodes

Climate News: Treating an 'emergency' as a real emegency; Coastal council dumps climate emergency; Covering climate activism
Apr 26, 2025 – 01:28:08
Interview: 'The only thing we've got left now is one another, we can't rely on the government': Rob Bakes, from Vote Climate One
Apr 21, 2025 – 00:33:51
Interview: Daniel Lancefield explains the April 30 Victorian Cleantech Showcase 2025 at Port Melbourne's 'The Timber Yard'
Apr 18, 2025 – 00:15:37
ClimateNews: Have your say on nuclear power; disillusioned with Nicholls candidates; flood insurance issues in Shepparton
Apr 15, 2025 – 00:20:04
Climate News: Democracy and the Online Citizen Assembly will play its part in resolving the climate crisis
Apr 13, 2025 – 00:45:15
Climate News: Cathy Oke at TEDx talks about climate's 'anti-heroes"; Bowen on Labor's new home battery scheme
Apr 10, 2025 – 01:04:23
Webinar: Maugean Skate, TX-Rex, salmon farming, Tasmania, going backwards with regard climate change endeavours: Australia Institute 'Climate Academy'
Apr 8, 2025 – 00:59:11
Interview: 'We need everything, everywhere, all at once' - climate scientist, Linden Ashcroft, who will be speaking in Tatura in September
Apr 7, 2025 – 00:26:37
Interview: Challenges on the home farm were the catalyst for the National Renewables in Agriculture Conference and Expo, this year in Bendigo
Apr 4, 2025 – 00:15:31
Climatre News: 'Cowardly politics robbing our children blind' - Ken Henry
Mar 30, 2025 – 00:39:18
Climate News: Australia Football League ignores the impact of climate change as it plans new northern Australia stadium
Mar 29, 2025 – 00:35:28
Climate News: 'Climate change is real, it's happening' - economist Angela Jackson on Q&A
Mar 27, 2025 – 01:19:05
Climate News: 'Heat is the biggest killer in Australia' - Emma Bacon, Sweltering Cities
Mar 25, 2025 – 00:32:19
Webinar: 'The 89 per cent project' with Covering Climate Now
Mar 22, 2025 – 00:57:08
Climate News: I'm astounded, aghast that people can't grasp the idea the climate change is real, it's happening now all aorund the world
Mar 20, 2025 – 01:01:47
Interview: Anthony Stott's 'Green Prosperity' is fresh, easily accessible, enriches us and reduces out carbon footprint
Mar 19, 2025 – 00:23:51
Webinar: 'We are in a mighty struggle for the soul of our species' - Tim Flannery
Mar 17, 2025 – 01:32:55
Climate News: GP cars go hybrid; Friend fears nuclear annihilation more than anything climate change can serve up
Mar 16, 2025 – 01:04:16
Webinar: 'The moment of history we find ourselves in, pessimism is a luxury we simply can't afford' - Dr Kumi Naidoo
Mar 14, 2025 – 01:06:33
Interview: Carly Noble, a 'boots on the ground' person, wants your vote to snare a Seat in the Australian Senate at the next Federal Election
Mar 13, 2025 – 00:29:37
Climate change and democracy: 'Climate change is a symptom of a failed set of governance' - Eddie Kowalski
Mar 9, 2025 – 00:31:34
Climate News: Daughter's Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV helps out during Tropical Cyclone Alfred
Mar 7, 2025 – 00:29:01
Climate News: Budgetry climate advice falls on deaf ears; Tropical Cyclone Alfred threatens coastal northern NSW and south-east Queensland
Mar 6, 2025 – 00:24:19
Climate News: Tropical Cyclone Alfred, the first in 50 years, heads for south-east Queensland
Mar 4, 2025 – 00:48:11
Climate Cafe: Anthony Stott wants us all to think about and implement 'green prosperity'
Mar 2, 2025 – 00:36:43
Event: After hearing 'The PM’s Climate Speech we’ve been waiting for', activist Violet Coco calls for courage
Feb 27, 2025 – 01:02:48
Climate News: A sense of civility and decency we don't yet understand will be demanded by climate change
Feb 25, 2025 – 00:43:56
Climate News: ‘Nuclear carbon emission bomb’: 2b tonne greenhouse gas surge forecast under Coalition
Feb 24, 2025 – 00:32:40
Climate News: What Would Real Energy Independence Look Like? - George Dillard
Feb 23, 2025 – 00:45:59
Climate News: 'A whole motely crew of friggin' freaks' - Astra Taylor talks about Donald Trump cohort on Haymaket Books webinar
Feb 21, 2025 – 01:01:44
Climate News: Stories about the climate crisis abound and efforts to stray abreast of this unfolding dilemma border on impotent
Feb 15, 2025 – 00:41:08
Event: Ignorance of the science worsens the climate crisis and that same blindness hurts trans kids
Feb 15, 2025 – 01:03:14
Webinar: 'They're completely bound into a deregularity paradigm that will kill us' - David Spratt, Collision Course author
Feb 14, 2025 – 01:10:45
Climate News: Considering the conundrum - ending our fossil fuels addiction increases temperatures and yet ends the climate crisis
Feb 12, 2025 – 00:28:12
Climate News: 'What do I do?, she asked. We can only do what we can do from where we are. John Grimes damns nuclear power
Feb 7, 2025 – 00:30:04
Something different: Considering the wealth of Gia with Eve Smith
Feb 3, 2025 – 00:31:24
Interview: Sammy Roth follows the truth and the science in writing columns about the impact of a changing climate for the Los Angeles Times
Feb 2, 2025 – 00:21:20
Climate News: 'Please, make no mistake, climate change is the biggest threat to security modern humans have ever faced' - David Attenborough
Jan 31, 2025 – 00:22:15
Climate News: Headed for a heatwave here in Shepparton; Australia's new Chief Scientist; Art meets reality in LA's fires
Jan 30, 2025 – 00:59:07
Climate News: Climate-driven insurance costs could generate economic chaos around the world
Jan 28, 2025 – 00:39:55
Climate News: Donald Trump takes centre stage, for just a few minutes, at second Geelong Climate Cafe
Jan 25, 2025 – 00:02:00
Climate News: Linkedin questions about LA fires from Hobart Mayor, Anna Reynolds
Jan 23, 2025 – 00:40:04
Climate News: 'Tragically, most of us are unprepared for planetary changes that have already happened, let alone what is coming': Simon Kerr
Jan 19, 2025 – 00:22:24
Climate News: Laughter and drinks amid climate worsened chaos in Los Angeles
Jan 19, 2025 – 00:54:16
Climate News: Cracking jokes about serious shit; Boiling Point; Economic impact of LA's fires in Australia - Matt Kean
Jan 17, 2025 – 01:28:32
Climate News: New York Times climate reporter, Christopher Flavelle, talks about what happened in Los Angeles
Jan 15, 2025 – 00:25:51
Climate News: Amy Chozick is waiting for Arnold Schwarzenegger to turn up in Los Angeles
Jan 14, 2025 – 00:38:29
Climate News: 'Kicking the can down the road won't work, the crisis is already here': David Bowman
Jan 13, 2025 – 00:34:24
Climate News: Elon Musk spreads disinformation about LA fires and damns the authorities
Jan 12, 2025 – 00:47:54
Climate New: Overwhelming fires at Los Angeles in California, rush of stories about the conflagration
Jan 11, 2025 – 00:33:32