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Get smart quickly on climate change. This award-winning MIT podcast, Today I Learned: Climate, breaks down the science, technologies, and policies behind climate change, how it’s impacting us, and what our society can do about it. Each quick episode gives you the what, why, and how on climate change — from real scientists — to help us all make informed decisions for our future.

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Get smart quickly on climate change. This award-winning MIT podcast, Today I Learned: Climate, breaks down the science, technologies, and policies behind climate change, how it’s impacting us, and what our society can do about it. Each quick episode gives you the what, why, and how on climate change — from real scientists — to help us all make informed decisions for our future.

    Won’t more CO2 help plants grow?

    Won’t more CO2 help plants grow?

    Plants take in CO2 from the air to grow—and today’s atmosphere has about 50% more CO2 than it did before we started burning massive amounts of fossil fuels. So, is that great news for plants?

    • 8 min
    Season 6 Preview: Something a Little Different

    Season 6 Preview: Something a Little Different

    People all around the world write into our team with questions about climate change. So this season, we’re working with scientists and experts at MIT and beyond, to answer those questions in language we can all understand.

    • 1 min
    Why does it take five years to build a wind farm?

    Why does it take five years to build a wind farm?

    The United States has a goal to power the country with 100% clean electricity by 2035. Unfortunately, our energy regulations are not set up to make this much change this quickly. Energy economist John Parsons of MIT joins the show to explain how much clean energy infrastructure we need to build, the obstacles to building it, and reform ideas to transform our energy system on the timeline our climate goals demand.

    • 15 min
    Energy storage: keeping the lights on with a clean electric grid

    Energy storage: keeping the lights on with a clean electric grid

    The large majority of new energy we’re building today comes from clean, renewable wind and solar projects. But to keep building wind and solar at this pace, we need energy storage: technologies that save energy when the weather is favorable, and use it when wind and sun are scarce.

    • 14 min
    A public health expert’s guide to climate change

    A public health expert’s guide to climate change

    We all want to live full, healthy lives. But climate change is threatening a growing number of people’s lives and well-being. So we’ve invited a guest on the show to help us see climate change not in tons of carbon dioxide, but as a matter of health.

    • 12 min
    TILclimate presents: What the heck is El Niño, anyway? (from Outside/In)

    TILclimate presents: What the heck is El Niño, anyway? (from Outside/In)

    We were going to produce an episode on El Niño, and its relationship to climate change. And then we found out that Outside/In, from New Hampshire Public Radio, already did that. And they did a really good job.

    • 21 min

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ArnoGill ,

Quick, well informed insights

This is a podcast I was looking for! Well educated individuals engaged in an discussion aimed at better communicating our climate crisis.

Episodes are short and digestible with thought provoking ideas.

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