Climategenn

07/11/2025

Britain’s Climate Wake-up: Inside Westminster’s National Emergency Briefing -Organiser Nick Oldridge – The briefing is a pivotal attempt to convene UK MPs, business, and civic leaders for an unprecedented, expert-led update on the full spectrum of climate and nature risks facing Britain.

“We are essentially holding the official briefing that we believe the government should be holding… We are going to be briefing on the climate and nature crisis, but on a very broad scope, so covering all the issues that need to be on the table when you have this conversation.” Nick Oldridge - organiser
https://youtu.be/hDu88eJI3ps

29/10/2025

Is global wine production sustainable in an unstable climate? In my latest ClimateGenn episode, Andy Neather (and co-author Jane Masters MW) reveal the surprising story behind “Rooted In Change”—sharing insights from vineyards worldwide under threat from climate change. With wine at risk like the rest of global agriculture, the stakes couldn’t be higher.

In this climategenn episode, I am speaking with journalist-and-author, Andy Neather, about his new book: Rooted In Change – The Stories Behind Sustainable Wi...

20/10/2025

“We’ve seen 20 years of climate change all at once. The country I knew no longer exists.” — Prof. Paul Behrens

In this powerful ClimateGenn episode, Paul Behrens explains why the UK urgently needs to rebuild resilient food systems — and how eating more plants could save land the size of Scotland while cutting emissions by more than half.

🎙️ Hosted by Nick Breeze

Watch or listen here 👉 https://youtu.be/3Zp8slyOfcI

In this climategenn episode I am speaking with Professor Paul Behrens, British Academy Global Professor, at the Oxford Martin School, at the University of Ox...

15/10/2025

🚨 The future of Europe’s climate could hinge on one ocean system!
I sat down with climate scientist Dr Rene van Westen to talk about the new AMOC Tipping Point Warning System—science that could forecast sudden, game-changing shifts for Britain and beyond.
Could the collapse be as close as 2055? Get the facts, future risks, and hope for adaptation in our explosive new interview.
👉 Watch/Read here: https://youtu.be/f8e3EwDrK6M

In this ClimateGenn episode I speak with Dr René van Westen about his recently published papers with colleagues that identify a physics based method for fore...

16/08/2025

Guns, Tanks, and Heatwaves: Rethinking Security in the Age of Climate Change – Erin Sikorsky

In this Climate.Genn episode I am speaking with Erin Sikorsky, Director at The Center for Climate and Security and also the Security Director at the The International Military Council on Climate and Security. We are discussing issues that Erin covers in her new book, Climate Change on the Battlefield.

https://genn.cc/erin-sikorsky-book/

Erin Sikorsky Quotes:

“Because the Trump administration is attacking so much climate science, it makes it really hard for the Defence Department to make smart decisions about infrastructure resilience if they don’t have good data and information from NOAA or NASA.”

“Spain is just saying out loud what other countries are thinking behind the scenes — that military spending must also include climate adaptation and resilience.”

“It is very typical in the national security community to rack and stack threats — is China a bigger threat than climate change, is terrorism a bigger threat than climate change — when really the question is: how does climate shape those competitions?”

“On the AMOC, it used to be considered a high-impact, low-probability scenario. Now we’re edging toward a high-probability, high-impact scenario — the kind of risk militaries need to be gaming out, just like they would a potential war over Taiwan.”

In this Climate.Genn episode I am speaking with Erin Sikorsky, Director at The Center for Climate and Security and also the Security Director at the The International Military Council on Climate and Security. We are discussing issues that Erin covers in her new book, Climate Change on the Battlefiel...

31/07/2025

“At the point of systemic collapse … what is the least worst outcome?”

In this climategenn episode I speak with climate policy analyst and Research Director at the Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration, David Spratt. He has recently published a report titled: Warming has reached 1.5°C. What does that mean for climate advocacy?

David offers his perspective on climate policy through the Australian lens as the Earth heats to 1.5. degrees with no end in sight for the damage that it is causing to human life, nature and infrastructure. The link to the paper is in the notes.

https://youtu.be/J7zhIpougrw

In this climategenn episode I speak with climate policy analyst and Research Director at the Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration, David Spra...

24/07/2025

Into the Cool: How Europe Could Freeze While the Planet Burns – Nick Breeze interviews René van Westen about Atlantic current ( ) collapse scenarios based on recent research. Link to video/audio + transcript.
https://genn.cc/amoc-collapse-scenarios/

01/07/2025

I was interviewed by Portuguese news outlet, Publico, about our Into The Heat project published earlier this year. The interview focuses on how inspired my guests, wine author Janet Wang and climate scientist, Jason Box, were by the regenerative practices being utilised in the Alentejo region of Portugal. The wineries we investigated were all certified under the Wines of Alentejo Sustainability Programme (WASP), meaning they carry the certification badge on their wine bottles. WASP has been winning a number of international awards for what literally translates into pushing back the boundaries of productivity and survivability in one of Europes most climate vulnerable regions. The Into The Heat Ebook is free to download and also has links to all the interviews and episodes in the accompanying podcast series.

https://www.publico.pt/2025/06/27/fugas/noticia/calor-alentejo-impressionante-espirito-colaborativo-ingles-nick-breeze-2138071

Vinhos do Alentejo Brasil breeze.520

21/06/2025

The UK Gov debates climate engineering/intervention on whether scientists should be allowed to conduct experiments to try and offset extreme climate heating from carbon emissions – which may lead to full scale deloyment. LINK IN BIO from experts on both sides of this polarised debate.
Jim Hansen
"We will be handing to our children a climate system that's practically out of their control."
Michael Mann
"First above all else, do no harm. And I think that geoengineering potentially violates this sort of planetary, hippocratic oath of climate science."
Rowan Williams
"I'd like to know what it is that I'm saying no to, if I do want to say no to it."
Kerry Nicholls
"God, I wish that we weren't even having this conversation, right?"
Raymond Pierrehumbert
"The danger of doing research that can develop technology and releasing this technology into a world where there's essentially no governance is huge."
Hugh Hunt
"If next year you need a fire engine to put out a fire in your house, is that the time to start designing the fire engine?"
Heidi Sevestre
"If we spray aerosols in the stratosphere, it could modify the chemistry of rain, and it could create more acid rains, it could disturb the monsoon in Asia."
Joshua Amponsem
"That should not be left to a particular kind of people and the kind of countries to look into that. That should be a global thing and every country should be able to participate."
Mike MacCracken
"There is also significant uncertainty heading into the future without intervention."
Anni Pokela
"I haven't come across that many young people who would want to shut it down."
Roger Hallam
"If it comes down to the collapse of civilisation or geoengineering, it's a no-brainer which one is going to be chosen."
Soumitra Das
"A part of the country is crossing this 35 degrees Celsius Weibull temperature and millions of people are dying on the street."
Liina Huttunen
"I'm really terrified if we can't discuss these things."
https://youtu.be/TShT1qIH_Ws

29/05/2025

🌩️ WAKE-UP CALL: What happens when the lights go out everywhere at once?
"The day could come where most of the world loses electricity at exactly the same time... Being without electricity for a week, you can survive. For a month, bad things start to happen. For a year, there's huge loss of life." - Dr. Alexander MacDonald
This isn't science fiction. Solar storms like the 1858 Carrington Event could cripple our electric grid today. But there's a solution: America's missing supergrid.
💡 The game-changing facts:
🔸 Wind/solar power costs just 2¢ per kWh (vs 18¢ for nuclear)
🔸 Continental supergrid could move clean energy anywhere instantly
🔸 80% of Americans support this - it's not partisan politics
🔸 Technology exists NOW, but we need political will
China's racing ahead. Europe's building. America's stalling. Our energy future - and civilization's resilience - hangs in the balance.
🔗 Watch the full interview: https://youtu.be/P9PKoXmimlk

[Dr Alexander MacDonald]We've been lucky. The day could come where most of the world loses electricity at exactly the same time. So we have to modernise elec...

28/05/2025

"INTO THE HEAT" - a free eBook and 9-episode podcast series chronicling my two-week road trip across Portugal's Alentejo region.

Join me alongside , Director of the Wines of Alentejo Sustainability Programme (WASP), with special guests Professor Jason Box (Geological Survey of Denmark & Greenland) and UK author/broadcaster Janet Wang.

We explore how this climate-vulnerable Portuguese region is:
- Implementing innovative heat adaptation strategies
- Supporting local communities
- Embracing new sustainability business principles
- Producing world-class wines using indigenous and adapted grape varieties

The eBook is completely free, and the podcast series is available on YouTube and all major podcast platforms: https://genn.cc/into-the-heat/