Episodes

May 21, 2026

Data Centre Flex: Moderating Peak Loads To Calm Loads Of Pique

How the Dickens will data centres meet Great Expectations for energy demand flex?

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May 7, 2026

Santa (Marta)’s List: These Academics Know If Your Fossil Transition …

A Herd Of Hobby Horses, Or An Equestrian Extravaganza of Ideas for Fossil Transition? Featuring Deezy The Diesel Mascot, Matthias Cormann, Sergeant Muskovic And Other Transition Heroes.

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April 23, 2026

Trust No One (Particularly Businesses Prioritising Quarterly Profits …

The Truth Is Out There (in the donations data, say researchers researching business climate policy shenanigans).

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April 9, 2026

IEEFA Grease Megamix: Fuel Crises, They’re Multiplying / And We’re Lo…

Your intrepid hosts read a new report from IEEFA designed to get you up to speed on why Australia has been stuck in the slow lane on fuel security (and how we can get moving).

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March 26, 2026

Oil’s Well That Ends Wells: The Crisis The IEA Was Born For

Subscribe to LMSU’s Patreon for the political commentary BoCo pod you didn’t know you needed in your life! Politics junkies? Guilty as charged! Nothing was going to keep your intrepid hosts from grabbing the popcorn and settling in to watch the SA election this past weekend. Run, don’t walk, over t…

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March 12, 2026

The General Theory Of Fossil Death Spirals

A fuel security crisis, a fossil death spiral and an underwhelming resource sector plan walk into a bar.

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Feb. 26, 2026

Superpower Institute Soft Launches A Little Idea Called ‘Carbon Prici…

The LMSU crew consider a new report from the Superpower Institute that reckons the Albanese Government should solve the budget deficit and the net zero transition with two simple, politically terrifying tricks!

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Feb. 12, 2026

Should We Downplay Tonnes To Fight Climate Change? My Assets We Shoul…

The long awaited LMSU Summer Book Club, featuring special guest co-host Alison Reeve!

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Dec. 30, 2025

True Love Is The Greatest Thing In The World, Except A Nice Holiday S…

Don’t rush us, Summerupperers. You rush a Holiday Special, you get rotten summaries.

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Dec. 18, 2025

We Summed Up Twelve Papers, Til Our Summers Were Sore; Climate Christ…

In which your intrepid hosts embark on an epic quest to sum up Climate Halloween, Climate Christmas and everything in between!

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Dec. 4, 2025

“It’s 9,058 Miles To Antalya, We’ve Got A Fraught Negotiation Agenda,…

We talk Türkiye with the incoming COP31 President of Negotiations, Chris Bowen!

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Nov. 23, 2025

No Sweets? Stuff This COP30 Summary Down Your Throats, Greedy Children

Direct from the kitchen table at our AirBnB in Belém, we sum up all the wild scenes from the dramatic final week of COP30 in Brazil.

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Nov. 19, 2025

"What The COP?" LIVE from the Australia Pavilion at COP30 in Brazil!

With the COP31 bid in the balance and the decision text in the ether your intrepid hosts try to work out what the hell is going on on a tumultuous day at COP30 in Brazil. Featuring special guest COP Maven Alex Scott!

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Nov. 16, 2025

K-COP: NDC Hunters

Your intrepid hosts sum up the first week of COP30 in Belém, Brazil. Featuring special guest COP-knower, Carbon Brief's Josh Gabbatiss!

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Nov. 6, 2025

How To Slow Climate Change: Loosely, In The Sky With Diamonds

Guterres declares overshoot ahoy on 1.5C. In case of emergency, break glass – and disperse diamonds!

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Oct. 23, 2025

Under Grattan’s eSafeguard Plan, Electricity Is Like A Baby Bird: It …

It’s our party and we’ll price carbon in the electricity sector if we want to (and I’m not sure QLD is invited).

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Oct. 9, 2025

The Ghost Of Climate Future

Devastating. And Motivating. This week we visit with the Ghost of Climate Future in the form of Australia's first National Climate Risk Assessment.

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Sept. 25, 2025

T•R•E•N•D•S: The One Where Tim, Mira, Emm And Alex Model Net Zero Pat…

Your intrepid hosts dig into Treasury’s modelling on Australia’s Net Zero Transformation, one of the flagships in the flotilla of climate reports launched by the Albanese Government last week.

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Sept. 18, 2025

The Hi-Lo Country (2035)

This week, there really is too much: your intrepid hosts make a noble attempt to sum up Australia's 2035 emissions reduction target, plus over 1000 pages of adaptation and mitigation reports, plans and modelling released by the Albanese Government.

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Sept. 11, 2025

Once You Start Down The Wood Side, Forever Will It Dominate Your Dest…

YODA (V.O.) Gas is the path to the Wood Side. Gas leads to emissions, emissions leads to warming, warming leads to suffering.

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Aug. 28, 2025

Climate Hegemon: Gotta Catch Em All (Chinazard, Mimik-EU, Trumptwo)

A race to the top or a spiral into the abyss? It’s a petrostate vs electrostate climate geopolitics spectacular, with a side of Productivity Palooza 2025!

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Aug. 14, 2025

Like Sands Through The Hourglass, So Are The NEM Reviews Of Our Lives

A gaggle of green-haired treasury officials, the Productivity Commission, and the ghost of NEM reviews past walk into a bar.

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July 31, 2025

Hey Big Spender, Blend A Little SAF For Me (Low Carbon, So Refined)

Climate is in the courts but your intrepid hosts are going Tropscho for low-carbon Dom Perignon-priced liquid fuels!

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July 17, 2025

Frankie My Dear, I Don’t Give A Damn (About GPGs not making Taxonomy …

The timeless tale of Love, War and Credible Transition in the Old NEM: GAS WITH THE WIND, feat. one gas review to rule them all and the Australian Sustainable Finance Taxonomy!

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