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Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip

Climate journalist DAISY DUNNE (Climate Solutions For Realists miniseries Part 2) #613

Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip

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🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!

This is part 2 of an April-long miniseries curated by Pip entitled 'Climate Solutions For Realists'.

Our second guest is climate journalist DAISY DUNNE.


A really fascinating and inspiring chat here with Pip and Daisy, following on from last week's episode with James Skeet of Just Stop Oil. Daisy is the associate editor of Carbon Brief, and is well equipped to deliver fact-based information in an accessible way, and has been working in the field for a minute. You'll hear about how it is to reconcile one's life while being entrenched in this area of expertise, what Carbon Brief is exactly, her beginnings as a science journalist, secret manilla envelopes and a real life spy movie premise, being on assignment in the arctic, attribution science, her very own 'polar bear moment', and working for the Independent - among a huge amount of other climate related gems and jewels. The perfect second part of this month long series. Grab a notebook and get yerself involved.

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0:00.0

Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is the Distraction Pieces podcast episode 613, I think 13. How you're doing?

0:08.8

I hope you're well. You may or may not know that this is episode two of a series that we're doing throughout the month of April called Climate Solutions for Realists.

0:20.5

Last week I talked to James Skeet of the

0:22.9

controversial just stop oil. And today I've got an equally just wonderful conversation,

0:28.9

a climate journalist called Daisy Dunn, who works at Carbon Brief, has also worked for the

0:37.0

independent in the past. And I wanted to get that

0:39.8

angle. I wanted to talk to someone who's rooted in the facts and the stats of it all, not purely

0:46.7

in activism and the choices of what is the right form of activism. We're going to get into more

0:52.1

of that over this, over this month, I promise you. Yeah, I wanted to talk to some of the carbon brief is amazing. Their focus,

0:58.3

I mean, we explain all this, but their focus is on looking at the facts and stats and making

1:03.2

them digestible and understandable. As I said in week one, the climate crisis can be so, can feel

1:09.8

so overwhelming and can make us feel powerless and

1:13.9

useless and defenseless. What they do at Carbon Brief, the amazing work that they do is make it more,

1:21.0

as said, bite-sized, understandable. It kind of strengthen you in arguments against idiots,

1:26.3

with the greatest respect, give you kind of

1:30.1

stats and facts rather than emotion to go, oh, you think that, but no, that's not actually

1:35.4

accurate. Here's the reality of that. Yeah. So, I mean, we'll get into it in a minute. Obviously,

1:40.5

we are bought you as ever by Speech of speech development records.com. Head over there,

1:44.9

see if you want any merch, get a tree planted in your name to try and have some positive

1:49.7

impact. We're also brought to you by patreon.com forward slash scrupious pip, where you can support

1:55.1

for, I mean, you can join the Patreon for free. Don't tell anyone, but you get exactly the same

2:00.4

if you join for free as if you

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