Wicked Problems - Climate Tech Conversations

Coming soon to wickedproblems.earth - my chat with Ben Cooke about the climate adaptation series of pieces in The Times with bylines from Cooke, Ben Spencer Anna Dowell Adam Vaughan Martina Lees Rhys Blakely and many more. We end with some evergreen advice that maybe some people in climate need to hear right now:

Wondering 'yes but what can I do,' when looking at [gestures at all of this]? Here are some stories of people staging a digital Dunkirk to save climate data in the US - Jonathan Gilmour, Rajan Desai, and Jeremy Herzog spoke to me for this Wicked Problems - Climate Tech Conversations. If you have the skills, want to do something, but are outside the US, these chaps might have a way you can help. https://lnkd.in/eKpfRUb4 If you're looking to do something meaningful here in the UK, but would never be caught dead at an 'activist' meeting, because you suspect there's something more useful than throwing soup or rinsing plastics you've been misled into thinking are recyclable, maybe check out Climate Majority Project's Forum this weekend in Limehouse Town Hall in London. We spoke to Ivo J. Mensch about the Forum he and Maria O'Connor Ph.D. are helping organise on 15-16 March. We

After feeling like I just wasn't seeing much media coverage of the many, many protests against Trump and Musk that I kept seeing people talk about on social media, the last week or so that really seems to have shifted. Particularly heartening to see the wall-to-wall coverage of the Stand Up for Science protests that happened yesterday (March 7, 2025) - NYT, PBS, NPR, LA Times, plus loads and loads of local outlets. Is it the scientists? the size? the longer lead time given to outlets? I'm not sure, but whatever it is it worked. The NYT, which just a couple months ago published a story claiming there was no resistance to Trump 2.0 actually ran *two* stories on it? One on March 6th: https://lnkd.in/gspjyD_B and one today (March 8): https://lnkd.in/gaFkr-wN #StandUpForScience #protest #Trump #media

Holy crap. I cannot believe this is happening.......here in #UTAH!!! Thanks to John Fitzgerald Weaver for letting the energy transition world know. Balcony solar gains unanimous bipartisan support in Utah A new Utah bill allows portable solar power systems of up to 1.2 kWac to connect directly to 120V outlets without interconnection applications or utility fees, provided they meet NEC and UL certification standards. https://lnkd.in/gPijGEKU)

Across the next week the Times will be running a series about how Britain can survive and thrive in a time not only of abrupt climate change, but also of revolutionary advances in green technologies. What will we have to do to adapt to the extreme weather to come, and how might those technologies transform our lives for the better? They're all free to read, and will be bundled up in print in next Thursday's Times Earth supplement. First up, Ben Spencer has written a piece about what on Earth we are to do now we've gone past 1.5C of warming. The answer, in part, will have to be adaptation - of everything from our railway lines to our homes to our crops. Thanks for your help with that Laurie Laybourn! https://lnkd.in/eiasQTS7 Also out today, I've written a piece about how Phil Sturgeon's rewilding project in the Welsh borders, and others like it, might help reduce flooding in towns like Tenbury Wells, which has flooded seven times in the last four years. https://lnkd.in/ecC_NDud There's lots more to come in the next week! Richard Delevan Tom Harrison, Edward Hopkins, Sam Bowen, Ecologi Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit Sammy Fry Ben Kilbey

I enjoyed talking to Richard Delevan for his podcast/show on Wicked Problems - Climate Tech Conversations last week. We talked about decarbonising UK industry, electrification vs hydrogen vs CCS, why electricity is so expensive in the UK and what government might do to bring the cost down. All in response to our recent Green Alliance report. Watch/listen here and presumably on your preferred podcast platform too: https://lnkd.in/d2jib6Ms

Every software dev, engineer, and pirate coder I've come to know over the decades. This is your Dunkirk moment. And you have a small (or big) boat. Please. Help save what we can, for future science, especially on climate.

Just recorded a great Wicked Problems - Climate Tech Conversations chat with Rajan Desai and Jeremy Herzog of Fulton Ring, who have done the planet a solid by saving this artefact of decades of climate data research - the FEMA climate risk tool that the US govt murdered in between chainsawing other parts of the state. Thanks to Jonathan Gilmour for bringing these guys to our attention. Ep out next week highlighting their great work, and spotlighting the broader effort to preserve at least some of the work being consumed in the biggest book-burning event since Alexandria or at least Nuremberg. Thanks all the people doing vital work to preserve as much science as we can, on climate and on so many things that need to be made safe for a better day. Subscribe at wickedproblems.earth to get it when it drops. Check out their resurrected FEMA climate risk data analytics tool: https://lnkd.in/e9bU-TpN

What's the red thread tying together the Climate Change Committee's carbon budget presented by Emma Pinchbeck FEI and Piers Forster, EU's Clean Industrial Plan, and Liam Hardy's industrial electrification paper for Green Alliance? The need for cheaper electricity. We get into it in this Wicked Problems - Climate Tech Conversations. We also talk with Charlie Mercer why Startup Coalition to renew the Net Zero Innovation Panel. Hint - something to do with every ￡1 of public funds crowding in ￡2.40 in private climate tech finance. Seems like a good deal. If you think so too and work in climate tech, you should get in touch with Charlie and co-sign. Listen here: https://lnkd.in/eKiyb2XY

The frequency of references on this BP capital markets call to "Gulf of America" is just depressing af. Though it must be said so far Murray Auchincloss has spared himself that humiliation and outsourced the knee-bending to CFO Kate Thomson and Gordon Birrell. Call is still going, and I keep hearing it over and over.