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Tennant Reed, Luke Menzel, Frankie Muskovic

Your regular deep dive into recent reports on climate and energy with Frankie Muskovic, Luke Menzel and Tennant Reed. Because there is too much.

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#106
Thursday · 1 hr 12 min
Above 2°C, Risk Of Human Self Sabotage Will Increase Significantly (Very High Confidence)
Your intrepid hosts sum up After2C, a website laying out four scenarios for what could take place after average global temperatures exceed 2°C.
#105
August 13 · 1 hr 48 min
Live Free And Safe Guard
Your intrepid hosts sum up the new Safeguard Mechanism Review consultation paper from the Albanese Government.
#104
July 30 · 1 hr 16 min
🎶 I See Tables Of Data, Since 1952, About To Be Broken, By The Strait Of Hormuz, And I Think To Myself, What A Numberful World 🎶
The 70s are BACK baby! (Hope you like flare jeans and oil crises).
#103
July 16 · 1 hr 21 min
NEM Governance May Need Work, But LMSU Governance Is Unimpeachable
I Am, You Are, We Are NEM Governance!
#102
July 2 · 1 hr 19 min
When Is 20 More Than 100? Beats Me(thane)
This week we present the world premiere of Muskovic’s Methane Musings: The Movie!
#101
June 18 · 59 min
Don’t Cry For Gas, DCCEEW Dreamers, Exporters Will Never Leave You
It would seem the epic poem of gas reservation demands one more stanza.
#100
June 4 · 1 hr 20 min
LMSU Episode 100 Tops Up The National Podcast Reserve
Your intrepid hosts navigate the curliest questions y'all could conjure in this Episode 100 Ask Me Anything spectacular!
#99
May 21 · 1 hr 17 min
Data Centre Flex: Moderating Peak Loads To Calm Loads Of Pique
How the Dickens will data centres meet Great Expectations for energy demand flex?
#98
May 7 · 1 hr 25 min
Santa (Marta)’s List: These Academics Know If Your Fossil Transition Policies Are Naughty Or Nice
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.
#97
April 23 · 1 hr 9 min
Trust No One (Particularly Businesses Prioritising Quarterly Profits Over Climate Action)
The Truth Is Out There (in the donations data, say researchers researching business climate policy shenanigans).
#96
April 9 · 1 hr 37 min
IEEFA Grease Megamix: Fuel Crises, They’re Multiplying / And We’re Losing Control / So The Answer Is Clean Supplying / And Electrifying
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).
#95
March 26 · 1 hr 24 min
Oil’s Well That Ends Wells: The Crisis The IEA Was Born For
Your intrepid hosts tick off the ten top to-dos for countries looking to endure an oil crisis, as brought to you by a the International Energy Agency.
#94
March 12 · 1 hr 10 min
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.
#93
February 26 · 1 hr 20 min
Superpower Institute Soft Launches A Little Idea Called ‘Carbon Pricing’
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!
#92
February 12 · 55 min
Should We Downplay Tonnes To Fight Climate Change? My Assets We Should!
The long awaited LMSU Summer Book Club, featuring special guest co-host Alison Reeve!
#91
Dec 31, 2025 · 1 hr 54 min
True Love Is The Greatest Thing In The World, Except A Nice Holiday Special (They’re So Perky, I Love That)
Don’t rush us, Summerupperers. You rush a Holiday Special, you get rotten summaries.
#90
Dec 18, 2025 · 56 min
We Summed Up Twelve Papers, Til Our Summers Were Sore; Climate Christmas, We Thought, Needs Two Papers More
In which your intrepid hosts embark on an epic quest to sum up Climate Halloween, Climate Christmas and everything in between!
#89
Dec 4, 2025 · 54 min
“It’s 9,058 Miles To Antalya, We’ve Got A Fraught Negotiation Agenda, Half A COP Presidency, Multilateralism Is On The Ropes, And We’re Wearing Sunglasses.” “Hit it.”
We talk Türkiye with the incoming COP31 President of Negotiations, Chris Bowen!
#88
Nov 24, 2025 · 1 hr 24 min
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.
#87
Nov 19, 2025 · 48 min
"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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