Rocking the Climate

Minds Over Matters · Jul 7, 2026 · 1h 1m

The numbers surrounding climate change are very real and frightening, leaving us with very few options. We can either warm (no pun intended) to the idea of extreme weather events that increase in both frequency and intensity, rising sea levels, severe droughts and wildfires, ocean acidification, and general disruption of the ecosystems that supported our evolution. Or we can take action to slow, and hopefully even reverse, the impact of carbon and methane in our atmosphere. Today we’re joined by Isabel Montañez, a sedimentary geochemist and paleoclimatologist who says that the lessons we are…