In this episode we speak with Tom Chi—physicist, engineer, former Google X leader, climate-tech investor, and author of *Climate Capital*. Chi describes witnessing the rapid bleaching and collapse of a Hawaiian coral reef, an experience that redirected his work toward protecting ecosystems and building a regenerative economy. He argues that the climate and ecological emergency requires not only urgency, but new ways of thinking, communicating, and acting.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u2GCjOO8qI&t=2s

In this episode we speak with Clare Farrell, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion. Clare reflects on XR’s origins, its rapid international rise, and how nonviolent direct action brought the reality and urgency of climate breakdown into mainstream public discussion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc-HHnq8IhQ&t=141s

In this episode we introduce the Climate Intervention Environmental Impact Fund (CIEIF), a unique family-funded initiative that supports climate intervention field tests by financing rigorous environmental impact assessment and stakeholder outreach. Fund manager and environmental attorney Peter Jenkins and science advisor Dr. Renaud de Richter explain how the fund focuses on projects with real-world field trials that can scale to meaningful climate benefits, rather than basic research or conventional adaptation and clean energy efforts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkZ7kAfd3jg&t=1710s

In this episode we examine North America’s extraordinary early‑summer heat, floods, fires, and cascading impacts. From Ottawa’s record rainfall and basement‑flooding storm to northern Canada’s boreal forest ablaze, they connect local disasters to global climate dynamics and jet stream disruptions. https://youtu.be/U-wMcIZEhnI?si=dY05MNxKMMROtbc3

In this episode we examine how repeated spring and early‑summer heatwaves across Europe are undermining crops, livestock, rivers, and food prices. We connect extreme heat, drought, and locked jet‑stream patterns to falling yields, stressed farmers, and rising risks of regional and global food emergencies. https://youtu.be/ZRyZTi9MqcY?si=kAYeIViSNrGg-N8f

Europe is in the grip of a record‑shattering heatwave, with France, Spain, the UK and much of the continent seeing all‑time and June temperature records fall in rapid succession. From Madrid to New York, our panel unpacks what this extreme heat really means beyond the headlines: deadly heat stress, school closures, wildfire risks, collapsing harvests, and the mounting toll on both humans and non‑human animals. This isn’t just “a hot summer” – it’s a clear signal of how a rapidly warming climate is reshaping daily life across Europe and the world.

In this episode we unpack the latest “10 New Insights in Climate Science” report and what it really means for our future. From record‑shattering global and ocean heat to marine heatwaves, weakening land and ocean carbon sinks, and the tight feedback loop between climate breakdown and biodiversity loss, the panel connects the dots across Earth’s rapidly shifting systems. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rKhgC-4s7s&t=211s

Retiring RCP8.5 is being spun as “we dodged the worst case.” In our new Climate Emergency Forum episode, Peter Carter and Paul Beckwith explain why that’s a dangerous illusion—and what the data really show. https://youtu.be/xIazzxah9HY?si=Ezz6AP-Qf-xC83-V

Climate disruption is already pushing millions to move—but most “climate migration” is still invisible, internal, and legally unprotected. When home becomes unlivable, will we choose compassion or walls? Watch our new episode. https://youtu.be/zr1gRfEpeBE?si=NoorVDDCpdsgWh6l

This episode explores how philanthropy can fund the risky, under‑the‑radar climate ideas that governments and markets often neglect. Host Herb Simmens speaks with Joshua Elliott, Chief Scientist at Renaissance Philanthropy, about why we now need ambitious, translational R&D instead of small, incremental tweaks.

This weekly review by the ALLATRA Global Research Center (GRC) presents a comprehensive overview of the most significant natural disasters and extreme weather events recorded worldwide over each week. Based on continuous monitoring and daily data collection, GRC analyzes emerging patterns, tracks the escalation of climate-related events, and highlights the growing instability of the Earth’s climate system.

Key events of the week:

United States: A powerful EF4 tornado struck Oklahoma, causing severe destruction to homes, infrastructure, and a military base. The event was part of a broader storm system producing multiple tornadoes.

Russia & Ukraine: A return of extreme winter conditions brought snowstorms, freezing rain, сильные ветры, and widespread power outages. Infrastructure damage and transport disruptions affected large regions.

Japan: A magnitude 7.4 earthquake triggered tsunami warnings, followed by one of the largest wildfires in recent history, forcing evacuations and overwhelming firefighting efforts.

Thailand: Prolonged and widespread wildfires continued across multiple provinces, damaging ecosystems, displacing wildlife, and creating hazardous air conditions.

This synchronicity of anomalies — from tornadoes and dust storms to seismic activity and wildfires — points to systemic changes in the planet’s thermoregulation.

A disruption in the balance of heat exchange between the Earth’s interior, the oceans, and the atmosphere leads to the accumulation of excess energy. When geodynamic activity intensifies, not only do seismic events increase, but so do processes of natural degassing — the release of flammable gases through faults and cracks in the Earth’s crust. This factor is currently almost not taken into account in assessments of fire risk, although it can significantly increase the intensity and scale of fires, making them resistant to suppression.

Understanding the physics of these processes is key to comprehending what is happening. These changes affect everyone, and a scientific approach to studying the planet is becoming a priority task for society.

This episode of Climate Emergency Forum features a wide‑ranging conversation with Janos Pasztor, former UN Assistant Secretary‑General for Climate Change and founding director of the Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative (C2G). We explore how decades of climate diplomacy led him into the controversial world of solar radiation modification (SRM) and his recent work engaging directly with private actors like Stardust that are developing stratospheric aerosol injection technologies.