Sustain What?

Sustain What? is a series of conversations, seeking solutions where complexity and consequence collide on the sustainability frontier. Revkin believes sustainability has no meaning on its own. The first step toward success is to ask: Sustain what? How? And for whom? revkin.substack.com

Sustain What? is a science podcast hosted by Andy @Revkin, with 120 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Andy @Revkin hosts Sustain What?, a science show with 120 episodes published.

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  Meet Researchers Holding a 50-Hour Livestream to Sustain Weather & Climate Science

  Jun 2, 20261h 5mS0

  <p>I just hosted a pop-up Sustain What conversation with three of the dozens of climate and weather scientists who are running a 50-Hour livestream to boost public appreciation of the observational and analytical science that bolsters societal resilience and boosts understanding of our amazing, and changing, planet. A goal is to sustain federal support for weather & climate science even as the current administration seems deadset on demolishing it.</p><p>My guests were Clare Singer, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder; Nadir Jeevanjee, a research physical scientist at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory; and Rob Socolow...

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  From "The Republican War on Science" to a Climate-Science Pulitzer to Deconstructing Storytelling - a Chat with Chris Mooney

  Jun 2, 20261h 9mS0

  <p>Program note: Today at 11 a.m. Eastern, join me live with several of the dozens of scientists participating in a 50-Hour livestream to sustain federal support for weather & climate science: YouTube, LinkedIn, Substack, Facebook, and X. The webcast is under way through June 3:</p><p>My conversation with Chris Mooney</p><p>Here’s the post-webcast post of my conversation with Chris Mooney. In 20 years, Mooney has gone from progressive blogger and author of the prescient bestselling 2005 book The Republican War on Science (yes, 2005, yes, prescient) to Pulitzer-winning Washington Post climate reporter to the new holder of an endowed ch...

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  🎶 New Song on Cooking in War Zones and Knitting a Red Wool Shield Against ICE

  May 28, 20264 minS0

  <p>I’m continuing to write songs along with my Sustain What webcasting and blogging here — in part to keep sane and in part because this has always been one of my ways of connecting people with ideas. (Buy my new album here.)</p><p>In this post, you’re getting the first look and listen to the first rough recording of “Nothing is Quiet.” The lyrics — also still a work in progress — are below. Everyone can listen but I’d love it if a few more of you might chip in financially to help me sustain my output.</p><p>The path from...

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  What to Think and Do as the Pope and an AI Founder Weigh in on This Fast-Forward Technology

  May 25, 20261h 16mS0

  <p>I just wrapped a super-sobering and, at the same time, fun and hopeful conversation on the urgent issues surrounding the plaid-speed evolution of AI. With my guests Brad Allenby and Andrew Maynard at Arizona State University, the prime focus was the Vatican rollout of Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical letter and the Pope’s admonition today that “artificial intelligence needs to be disarmed.”</p><p>Please listen and weigh in with your thoughts - and SHARE this post so we can widen our Sustain What community.</p><p>Allenby’s research has focused in part on how nations’ fears about the ex...

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  Burgess, Hausfather, Pielke and Tol on the overdue end to the worst-case RCP8.5 climate scenario

  May 19, 20261h 22mS0

  <p>I hope you’ll watch and share this illuminating and constructive face-to-face discussion with four key analysts of the scenarios for emissions of planet-heating gases that indirectly have shaped, and sometimes misshaped, climate policy discourse and decisions (and media coverage). </p><p>My guests were Richard Tol, Zeke Hausfather, Matt Burgess, and Roger Pielke Jr.</p><p>As I discussed here recently, the worst-case emissions track, a k a RCP8.5, is being dropped from the basket of plausible futures used in modeling studies that underpin core conclusions in the periodic reports from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Ch...

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