Ep. 058: Advances in Alternative Energy

Guest: Tim Flannery, Australian Climate Commissioner

Are changes in behavior and the advances in alternative energy production opening up new possibilities?

Professor Tim Flannery, the former Australian Climate Commissioner, thinks so.

Flannery says, "A couple of years ago, I started to realize there was an extra tool in the tool kit – one that was gonna be quite important to our future, and I had to invent a name for this extra tool. I called it the third way. And really, the third way is about technologies and methods and approaches that allow us to draw carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere at a scale that makes a difference to the climate, and in a way that strengthens the earth system or ability to self regulate. And that concept is a really, really important one."

Flannery was Australia's only Climate Commissioner. He is the author of "The Weather Makers and Atmosphere of Hope."