This Year in Climate: 2025

Climate One

News, Social Sciences, News Commentary, Science, Earth Sciences

4.7 • 583 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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2025 has been a doozy in so many ways. And climate news has been no exception. Climate One hosts Ariana Brocious and Kousha Navidar look back at what the year has meant for climate progress: the good, the bad, the ugly — and the joyful. According to the World Meteorological Organization, 2025 will go down as one of the top three warmest years in the 176-year observational record. Climate-change-fueled extreme weather continues to wreak havoc on communities across the world. And yet, it’s not all bad news. As Bill McKibben points out, we now live on a planet where the cheapest form of energy basically comes from pointing a piece of glass at the sun. And globally, renewable energy surpassed coal for the first time ever. Despite the federal government’s attacks on climate science and policy, local climate action is still happening across the country and globe, and each of us holds power to make change. Guests: Adrienne Heinz, Clinical Research Psychologist, Stanford University School of Medicine Roxanne Brown, Vice President at Large, United Steelworkers Pattie Gonia, Drag Queen and environmentalistFor show notes and related links, visit ClimateOne.org Highlights: 00:00 - Intro 02:00 – 2025 has been the year of AI 04:30 – Trump admin attack on science, climate and environmental regs and rules 06:45 – Good news on renewables and the rise of China as an electrostate 08:30 – New York implements congestion pricing 10:00 – US has removed itself from global climate negotiations 12:45 – Remembering Jane Goodall 15:30 – Adrienne Heinz on how to support yourself and others after a weather disaster 25:30 – Roxanne Brown on how Trump’s pullback of IRA, BIL and CHIPS acts have hurt American workers and industry 34:00 – Growing threat of disinformation in climate conversations 36:30 – Pattie Gonia on how drag performance fits in with their climate and environmental activism 51:00 – How joy is strategic 53:30 – A look ahead at 2026 ***** Support Climate One by going ad-free! By subscribing to Climate One on Patreon, you’ll receive exclusive access to all future episodes free of ads, opportunities to connect with fellow Climate One listeners, and access to the Climate One Discord. Sign up today at patreon.com/ClimateOne. Ad sales by Multitude. Contact them for ad inquiries at multitude.productions/ads Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:16.1	Kuscher, are you getting in the holiday spirit?
0:20.1	Oh, my friend. It starts for me in like July.
0:23.3	And now we're just deep in it.
0:25.2	When I came home from the live event we did for Climate One last week, I discovered that my wife had started decorating without me.
0:33.4	And it was like I walked into a fever dream of F.A.O. Schwartz or something where like
0:38.4	there's just a Christmas tree with everything decked out and there's garland around all of our doors
0:45.0	and even the doors themselves have like big bows across them. And here's the kicker. Neither
0:49.3	my wife nor I are Christian, but we just love the holiday season and we love Christmas.
0:55.3	And yeah, I'm super jazzed about celebrating the end of the year. How about you? I also love the holiday season.
0:59.6	I really get into holiday baking. So that's already begun. And it just kind of snuck up on me.
1:04.4	I realized like the end of the year always feels very fast. And so here we are at the end of yet
1:09.3	another year and getting to our annual
1:12.4	wrap-up show. So let's do it. I'm Ariana Brocious. I'm Kushan Avidar. And this is Climate One.
1:21.5	Well, we've made it through another year. And it's become customary here at Climate One
1:27.3	to take a look back on meaningful events
1:29.6	and conversations from the last 12 months. There's lots to talk about in 2025, starting with the
1:36.3	fact that once again, it was one of the hottest years on record. That's right. In fact,
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