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May 2024

Episode 5: How Do We Know Anything?

On this show, we’ve been talking about uncertainty from a variety of different angles. We’ve heard how uncertainty can be a spark for creativity and scientific discovery. We’ve discussed how uncertainty can go unseen and make science really difficult. And we’ve explored some of t ... Show More

33m 26s

Apr 2024

Episode 4: This Simple Strategy Might Be the Key to Advancing Science Faster

Science is an iterative process. Progress comes from people coming up with ideas that are sort of right and then new evidence and ideas coming in to update them to become even more correct. Underlying this process is a willingness by scientists to accept that they might be wrong ... Show More

35m 16s

Apr 2024

Episode 3: When Uncertainty Hides in the Blindspot of Overconfidence

Today’s episode of Uncertain is about the ways that studies can leave us overconfident and how “just-so stories” can make us feel overly certain about results that are still a work in progress. And sometimes studies get misleading results because of random error or weird samples ... Show More

29m 51s

Feb 2016

Climate Change

Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by guests Dara O Briain, Professor Tony Ryan and Dr Gabrielle Walker to discuss the ever-hot topic of climate change. They take a forensic look at the evidence that the climate is indeed changing, how we know that we are responsible, and what c ... Show More

49m 21s

Jul 2022

The Unsettling Truth Behind Climate Science

Steven E. Koonin, author of Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters, joins us to debunk the wildest claims and fantasies of prominent "climate scientists". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

19m 48s

Sep 2023

The six D-words of climate change

It’s climate week. To mark the occasion we’re talking to scientist Michael E. Mann about six D-words that help us understand where the conversation around climate change has been and where it’s going. This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Miranda Kennedy, fact-che ... Show More

25m 7s

Dec 2022

Climate science and politics

As the COP27 environment summit draws to a close we look at some of the issues still to be resolved. BBC Environment correspondents Victoria Gill and Georgina Rannard join us from the meeting. And we head to the houses of parliament in the company of a group of teenagers who are ... Show More

27m 47s

Dec 2009

The Copenhagen Conference

Godfrey Boyle of The Open University on the key questions for the 2009 UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen

9m 4s

John Rennie's 7 Answers to Climate Contr...