In this special bonus episode on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we bring you a story Mary told about the story on the Story Collider podcast. Big thanks to them for letting us use this clip! For more on Katrina, Bush, and where both sit on the timeline of the climate crisis, check out this week's newsletter, we've made it free for all: https://realhottake.substack.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Epicurious editor (and hot cake!) David Tamarkin joins to discuss how the aspirational world of food media has been slow to integrate climate, the machismo-and-meat problem, and how he and others are trying to push the beat forward. Plus, weird food trends!Subscribe to our newsletter: https://realhottake.substack.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Climate disasters are piling on top of the pandemic and ongoing nationwide civil rights protests, but you wouldn't necessarily know it from reading or watching the news. Brian Kahn, managing editor at Earther, joins us to talk about why so many outlets have a hard time applying a climate lens to stories that aren't about emissions or weather, the storytelling talents of climate deniers, and the need to undo decades worth of bad climate coverage that prioritized the appearance of objectivity over the truth.Follow Brian and his team: @blkahn, @yessfun, @dharnanoorSubscribe to our newsletter for bonus segments & original writing: https://realhottake.substack.com/Articles discussed:This Is What Climate Change Looks Like in an Era of Covid-19 The surprising reasons why people ignore the facts about climate changeThe curse of ‘both-sidesism’: How climate denial skewed media coverage for 30 yearsTwo Tropical Cyclones Could Make US Landfall This WeekendCorporate TV news needs to break its cycle of shallow coverage of extreme weatherCorporate broadcast TV news fails to connect extreme heat to climate, COVID-19, or racial injusticeClimate Science Has a Blind Spot When it Comes to Heat Waves in Southern AfricaThe World’s Largest Tropical Wetland Is on Fire As Climate Change Burns Arizona, State Has More Imprisoned Firefighters Than EmployeesAccepting Death by Coronavirus or Climate Crisis Is Not an OptionTrump's Racist Coronavirus Response Foreshadows Injustice to ComeHow The Fossil Fuel Industry Funds The Police Big Oil Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The New Republic's Kate Aronoff joins us to talk about the difference between political reporting and climate reporting, the link between fossil fuel divestment and defunding the police, and of course all the various types of climate bois.Subscribe to our newsletter for bonus content! https://realhottake.substack.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The entire second season of Netflix series The Politician revolves around the issue of climate change and, despite a couple of big fails on the subject of race, it’s actually good. We dig into it in this coffee break episode.Bonus segment for subscribers includes a look at why Handmaid's Tale fails as an ecofascist cautionary tale, and a surprising revelation from Amy. Sign up here: https://realhottake.substack.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The media is having a Me Too moment for journalists of color amid national protests against policy brutality and systemic, all against a backdrop of a climate emergency. NYT climate reporter-turned Gimlet podcaster Kendra Pierre-Louis joins us to talk about all of this and more. Plus: dad jokes, mayo edition!Subscribe for a bonus segment in which we talk about that crazy CBS "Karen" story, why it's so hard for national media outlets to criticize themselves, and why a certain Hot Take co-host doesn't know how to drive. https://realhottake.substack.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're so excited to bring you Season 2 in July! We'll have new guests, a new format, and the usual combination of media criticism, climate trends, f-bombs and dad jokes. See you soon! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amid nationwide Black Lives Matter protests, some climate activists have been saying "now's not the time to talk about climate." In this episode we talk about how justice is justice, climate and racial justice are all the same thing, they can't be separated. To access the full-length episode, consider becoming a Hot Take premium subscriber: https://realhottake.substack.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elon Musk has done some great work making electric cars more of a reality in the U.S. But the hero worship of him can be dangerous, especially when it blinds people to his less-than-helpful moves when it comes to climate. Premium subscribers to our weekly newsletter got a whole feature on this last week, but there were still things we had to leave out, so ... bonus episode! If you want a weekly digest of climate coverage plus original analysis from Mary and Amy, make sure to subscribe to the newsletter! Subscribe: https://realhottake.substack.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's the S1 finale y'all! Mary and Amy wrap up the season with a look at the ever-evolving climate-COVID-19 story, coverage of climate for climate's sake, and pieces that provide inspiration to keep fighting on climate. Plus some rum-fueled rants and dad jokes, of course.Subscribe to our newsletter so you won't miss our curated reading lists, original writing and subscriber-only bonus episodes: https://realhottake.substack.com/subscribeReading List:The US has a collective action problem that’s larger than the coronavirus crisis —Patrick Sharkey, Vox https://www.vox.com/2020/4/10/21216216/coronavirus-social-distancing-texas-unacast-climate-changePutin's Long War Against American Science — William J. Broad, The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/science/putin-russia-disinformation-health-coronavirus.htmlThe Reason COVID-19 and Climate Seem So Similar: Disinformation —Amy Westervelt, Drilled News https://drillednews.substack.com/p/the-reason-covid-19-and-climate-seem‘We Needed to Go’: Rich Americans Activate Pandemic Escape Plans—Olivia Carville, Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-19/-we-needed-to-go-rich-americans-activate-pandemic-escape-plansThink This Pandemic Is Bad? We Have Another Crisis Coming —Rhiana Gunn Wright, The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/opinion/sunday/climate-change-covid-economy.html Upend the political power of carbon polluters — Leah Stokes, The Boston Globe https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/19/opinion/upend-political-power-carbon-polluters/ The Green New Deal Is Cheap, Actually—Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/why-the-green-new-deal-is-cheap-actually-965794/What the 'Humans Are the Virus' Meme Gets So Wrong—Brian Kahn, Earther https://earther.gizmodo.com/what-the-humans-are-the-virus-meme-gets-so-wrong-1842934676I Am a Mad Scientist—Kate Marvel, Drilled News https://www.drillednews.com/post/i-am-a-mad-scientist People Aren’t Bad for the Planet—Capitalism Is—Izzie Ramirez, Bitch Media https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/world-on-fire/ecofascist-messaging-is-increasing-during-coronavirus-pandemic I’m pregnant during the coronavirus pandemic, and I’m terrified—Anica Brown, Boston Globe https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/20/opinion/im-pregnant-im-terrified/In a shrinking world, what will we pass on to our children?—Mary Heglar, The Boston Globe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices