In 2004, David Shukman stood at the BBC news desk and tried to explain why global warming might make Britain colder. It did not go well. Twenty years later, he's still asking the same question: how do you communicate a threat this counterintuitive?
Listen to the full conversation now via the link in our bio 🔗
Feeling despair and unbridled fury about the climate issues facing our planet? You’ve come to the right podcast.
The emotional side of climate change isn’t talked about enough @willemhuiskamp of @pik_klima explains why.
What keeps you going?
🎧 Listen now - link in bio.
One of the systems keeping our climate stable is under pressure.
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) helps regulate temperatures, weather and food systems across the globe.
If it weakens, the consequences won’t be instant but they will be profound. In the latest episode of Outrage + Optimism @willemhuiskamp talks with @tomcarnac and explains what these could be.
Listen to the new episode to find out more, via our bio 🔗
This week marks 7 years since the first episode of Outrage + Optimism 🎂
Join us in taking a look back through the archive of memories of this time, featuring inspirational guests, bold conversations, and the voices shaping the future of climate action.
We can't thank you enough for your support across the years. Have any of out there you been with us from the very start?
Recent reporting on Lululemon has brought renewed attention to PFAS, often referred to as “forever chemicals”, and their widespread use in consumer products.
Lululemon say they aren’t using them, but what are they?
If you are looking to better understand the significance of this issue, our latest episode of Outrage + Optimism explores it in depth.
We speak with two leading advocates who have spent years campaigning for stronger regulation of PFAS, offering a clear explanation of the risks these substances pose, why they persist in the environment, and why this is now a matter of urgent public concern.
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This is a heartbreaking amount of exposure to harm 💔
Sea level rise is not a distant environmental threat. It is a health emergency happening right now. In this episode, Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac discuss why we must stop looking at rising water and start seeing the impact on disease, nutrition, and mental health.
What changes when we stop treating those most affected as victims and start recognizing them as leaders? It is time to treat the climate crisis like the urgent health crisis it has always been.
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A possible ‘Super El Niño’ is coming. Are we any better prepared this time?
The last major El Niño brought record heat, flooding, crop failures and rising food insecurity across large parts of the world. It’s not a new phenomenon, but layered on top of a warmer planet, the impacts are getting harder to absorb.
This time, the forecasts are already pointing to elevated risk. We know that acting early saves lives even when it means making decisions before you have the full picture. Committing resources, putting systems in place, and in some cases spending money on impacts that may not materialise exactly as expected.
But just as forecasting becomes more reliable, governments are pulling funding in the opposite direction. It’s an Outrage, and one we have to call out.
In the episode this week, we speak to Andrew Kruczkiewicz from the @rcclimatecentre and @columbiaclimate , whose work sits at the intersection of climate science and humanitarian response, helping translate forecasts into action before disasters strike.
We might know when and how the next climate disaster will hit - but we know it will.
So ensure that we’re prepared?
Another flood, another million people displaced... We’ve heard it so many times that it just doesn’t register as it should. But that normalisation is itself another disaster.
Just last year:
🌊 300,000+ displaced in Southern Africa
🌊 Thousands dead and millions displaced in Pakistan
🌊 Entire communities destroyed in South Sudan
We saw $84 billion in flood-related losses in 2025 alone and alarmingly only a quarter of that was insured. We know what happens to a global economy when it becomes uninsurable - financial collapse, supply chain breakdown and mass displacement.
This isn’t a distant risk, it’s happening now and it’s not normal.
In today’s episode, we explore what it means to live in a world where flooding is no longer a rare shock but part of a rapidly changing climate reality - and ask whether the devastation that flows from climate impacts help rally a social movement for change?
🎧 Out now, wherever you get your podcasts. Link in bio
I am outraged. How much pointless loss and destruction do we need to see before we break our oil addiction cycle?
Every oil crisis is not a surprise, it’s a consequence - and with each subsequent turn of the wheel, the human and economic prices being paid increase.
The costs aren’t abstract, they’re measured in livelihoods, in communities and in futures cut short.
What will it take for us to finally break the cycle?
Listen to the latest @outrageoptimsim for more on this, out now wherever you get your podcasts.
With @globalrenewablesalliance
Even if climate change were a hoax, the case for renewables still stands.
🔒 Security. Fossil fuel dependency hands leverage to regimes you’d rather not deal with, and domestic renewables change that equation entirely.
📈 Growth. Clean energy isn’t just green, it’s a growth story waiting to be written for economies like the UK and Germany.
🏛️ Stability. Smart public investment creates jobs, cuts energy bills, and gives governments something concrete to point to.
Yet every conflict over oil triggers the same reflex: calls to squeeze more from declining reserves, dressed up as pragmatism.
Will leaders reach for the familiar, or will some finally use this moment as the push to build something more resilient?
🎧 Today’s @outrageoptimism with @globalrenewablesalliance digs into exactly this.
Link in bio 👆
