Climate change
Subject in Earth Sciences
Climate change has come up in 6 episodes across 5 podcasts in TMT, including The Joe Rogan Experience, TED Radio Hour, Stuff You Should Know. 7 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Elizabeth DunnSocial psychologist and happiness researcher at the University of British Columbia, co-author of Leave the Lights On
Dunn says the researcher behind the study used to argue against having children never intended that message, and per-child emissions have since declined.
“since that original research was published, the emissions associated with each one of us has actually declined”
TED Radio Hour: Less guilt, more joy: A new chapter for climate action (Sep 4, 2026) · Listen from 49:56
Dunn cites the IPCC as saying individual behavior change can reduce global emissions by 40 to 70 percent.
“the International Panel on Climate Change says individual behavior change can reduce global emissions by 40 to 70 percent”
TED Radio Hour: Less guilt, more joy: A new chapter for climate action (Sep 4, 2026) · Listen from 9:29
Josh ClarkCo-host of Stuff You Should Know
Clark relayed climatologists' expectation that by 2100 several southern U.S. states will become tropical.
“Alabama and Arizona are going to be like Guatemala by the end of the century”
Stuff You Should Know: Selects: Plant Migration (Jul 25, 2026) · Listen from 30:58
Clark contrasted current warming with post-glacial warming of one degree per 1,400 years and blamed Western industrialized nations for the acceleration.
“somebody's put their foot on the gas, and that somebody is Western industrialized nations, right?”
Stuff You Should Know: Selects: Plant Migration (Jul 25, 2026) · Listen from 19:54
Acharya PrashantIndian philosopher, teacher and author of Truth Without Apology
Prashant says the signs of climate-driven suffering are unmistakable, citing changing weather, failing crops, heat waves and coming mass migration.
“It's obvious the weather patterns across the world are changing. Crops are failing. Look at the kind of heat waves we are experiencing”
Digital Social Hour: Viral Philosopher Exposes Why Love Is Failing Right Now | DSH #2066 (Jul 15, 2026) · Listen from 12:08
Prashant contends that AI will not destroy the planet and that the planet's only enemy is human inner darkness.
“ai is not going to destroy the planet there is nothing here that holds a certain grudge against the planet”
Digital Social Hour: Viral Philosopher Exposes Why Love Is Failing Right Now | DSH #2066 (Jul 15, 2026) · Listen from 7:17
Joe RoganAmerican comedian and host of The Joe Rogan Experience
Rogan says humans affect the climate but that figures like Al Gore profit from climate change and use it to restrict rights.
“But that people like Al Gore and a lot of these fucking these greenies, they're profiting off of this concept of climate change and then also using it to clamp down on people's rights”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2492 - Ari Shaffir (Apr 30, 2026) · Listen from 1:35:58
Rogan pushes back that older climate predictions were based on less data than is available today.
“don't you understand that science back then didn't have as much data as they have now?”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #1555 - Alex Jones & Tim Dillon (Oct 27, 2020) · Listen from 44:01
Alex JonesAmerican radio host and founder of InfoWars
Jones argues the sun, not carbon dioxide, is the main driver of the climate.
“So the main driver of climate is the sun”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #1555 - Alex Jones & Tim Dillon (Oct 27, 2020) · Listen from 40:16
Jones claims the push to link climate change to human activity aims at a centralized world government controlling carbon.
“The goal is a centralized world government that can then monitor all carbon and control it as a toxic bad thing”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #1555 - Alex Jones & Tim Dillon (Oct 27, 2020) · Listen from 33:54
Chuck BryantCo-host of Stuff You Should Know
Bryant said Earth has warmed more than one degree Celsius since the Industrial Age began, with 0.37 of that since 2011.
“But 0.37 of that change over the past 200 years has come since 2011”
Stuff You Should Know: Selects: Plant Migration (Jul 25, 2026) · Listen from 18:59
Emma ThompsonBritish actress and screenwriter, two-time Academy Award winner
Thompson said London theaters lack air conditioning because Britain has not yet adapted to climate change.
“Because we've never needed it before, and we haven't adapted yet to climate change”
SmartLess: "Emma Thompson" (Jun 29, 2026) · Listen from 11:47
Coverage over time
Podcasts
- The Joe Rogan Experience · 2 episodes
- TED Radio Hour · 1 episode
- Stuff You Should Know · 1 episode
- Digital Social Hour · 1 episode
- SmartLess · 1 episode
Episodes
Less guilt, more joy: A new chapter for climate actionTED Radio Hour · Sep 4, 2026 · 50 min
Manoush Zomorodi talks with social psychologist Elizabeth Dunn about climate actions that also increase happiness, featuring co-author Jiaying Zhao's TED Talk.
Selects: Plant MigrationStuff You Should Know · Jul 25, 2026 · 46 min
Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant explain how plants migrate, why climate change is outpacing them, and the debate over human-assisted migration of trees.
Viral Philosopher Exposes Why Love Is Failing Right Now | DSH #2066Digital Social Hour · Jul 15, 2026 · 47 min
Sean Kelly talks with philosopher Acharya Prashant about loneliness, ego, fear, AI, climate, love versus dependence, internal freedom, money and food choices.
"Emma Thompson"SmartLess · Jun 29, 2026 · 58 min
Emma Thompson talks with the SmartLess hosts about fame, her comedy roots, Harry Potter, Sense and Sensibility, Sondheim, boredom, and British food.
#2492 - Ari ShaffirThe Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 30, 2026 · 2 h 42 min
Joe Rogan and comedian Ari Shaffir discuss Shaffir's seven months of off-grid travel, psychedelic drug policy, MMA weight cutting, Gaza, ancient megaliths, and his storytelling series The End.
#1555 - Alex Jones & Tim DillonThe Joe Rogan Experience · Oct 27, 2020 · 3 h 15 min
Joe Rogan hosts Alex Jones and Tim Dillon to debate censorship, climate change, Epstein, Bohemian Grove, COVID-19 lockdowns, the 2020 election and UFOs.