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Let Me Sum Up
Your regular deep dive into recent reports on climate and energy with Frankie Muskovic, Luke Menzel and Tennant Reed. Because there is too much.
Episodes
Let Me Sum UpDJ Fatih B Unleashes Blockbuster Electropop Beats
Subscribe to LMSU’s Patreon for the latest on the domestic gas reservation policy! Our latest bonus episode features Luke, Tennant and audience fave Alison…
Let Me Sum UpNot Cool, Bro: A Sweat Inducing Report On Wet Heat
Note Folks, we recorded this week’s episode before the horrific incident involving independent MP and allround wonderful humn, Helen Haines. We are sending…
Let Me Sum UpSpecial: Voices from Pre-COP31 in Fiji
Pre-COP31 in Fiji and Tuvalu has just wrapped. Its premise was to provide an opportunity for the world to hear directly from the Pacific. In that spirit, we're…
Let Me Sum Up“I… I Was Carbon Pricing / CBAM Was There / Two Worlds Collided / And They Could Never Tear Us Apart” (INXPORT, 20XX)
Subscribe to LMSU’s Patreon for a squiz at some IEA data on global emissions in 2026 This week our Bonus episode includes Frankie, Luke and Tennant having a…
Let Me Sum UpI Can Fly Higher Than An Eagle, For You* Are The Wind Beneath My Wings (*Eye-watering SAF Subsidies)
Subscribe to LMSU’s Patreon for some much needed Good News Stories on climate! This week our Bonus episode includes Frankie, Luke and Tennant look to the light…
Let Me Sum UpAbove 2°C, Risk Of Human Self Sabotage Will Increase Significantly (Very High Confidence)
Subscribe to LMSU’s Patreon for some AMA action flowing from our 100th episode! This week our Bonus episode includes Frankie, Luke and Tennant revisiting a…
Let Me Sum UpLive Free And Safe Guard
Subscribe to LMSU’s Patreon for some unsolicited advice to the next Victorian Energy Minister! This week our Bonus episode includes Frankie, Luke and Tennant…
Let Me Sum Up🎶 I See Tables Of Data, Since 1952, About To Be Broken, By The Strait Of Hormuz, And I Think To Myself, What A Numberful World 🎶
Subscribe to LMSU’s Patreon for a dissection of the latest cracks in the ECMC Federation This week our Bonus episode includes Frankie, Luke and Tennant…
Let Me Sum UpNEM Governance May Need Work, But LMSU Governance Is Unimpeachable
Subscribe to LMSU’s Patreon for a chat on Diesel Fuel Tax Credits! This week our Bonus episode includes Alison, Frankie, Luke and Tennant breaking down what is…
Let Me Sum UpWhen Is 20 More Than 100? Beats Me(thane)
Subscribe to LMSU’s Patreon for Germany industrial decarb tour and London Climate Action Week debrief! This week our Bonus episode includes a debrief from Luke…
Let Me Sum UpDon’t Cry For Gas, DCCEEW Dreamers, Exporters Will Never Leave You
Subscribe to LMSU’s Patreon for Bonus Bonn bons! This week our Bonus episode has Frankie interrogating Luke and Tennant for some reportage of all the goings on…
Let Me Sum UpLMSU Episode 100 Tops Up The National Podcast Reserve
Summerupperers, we’ve made it! 100 episodes in and your intrepid hosts are still banging on about the latest developments and papers in climate and energy…
Let Me Sum UpData Centre Flex: Moderating Peak Loads To Calm Loads Of Pique
Send us a voicemail to mark Let Me Sum Up’s upcoming 100th Episode! Your friendly neighbourhood climate and energy podcast of record is about to clock up its…
Let Me Sum UpSanta (Marta)’s List: These Academics Know If Your Fossil Transition Policies Are Naughty Or Nice
Send us a voicemail to mark Let Me Sum Up’s upcoming 100th Episode! Your friendly neighbourhood climate and energy podcast of record is about to clock up its…
Let Me Sum UpTrust No One (Particularly Businesses Prioritising Quarterly Profits Over Climate Action)
Grab your limited edition ‘Energy Sovereignty Now!’ t-shirts! There is now an insufficiency of energy sufficiency AND sovereignty tees in the world, but don’t…
Let Me Sum UpIEEFA Grease Megamix: Fuel Crises, They’re Multiplying / And We’re Losing Control / So The Answer Is Clean Supplying / And Electrifying
Grab your limited edition ‘Energy Sovereignty Now!’ t-shirts! There is now an insufficiency of energy sufficiency AND sovereignty tees in the world, but don’t…
Let Me Sum UpOil’s Well That Ends Wells: The Crisis The IEA Was Born For
Subscribe to LMSU’s Patreon for the political commentary BoCo pod you didn’t know you needed in your life! Politics junkies? Guilty as charged! Nothing was…
Let Me Sum UpThe General Theory Of Fossil Death Spirals
Another regional conflict precipitating another energy security crisis has your intrepid hosts feeling some deja vu as we find ourselves in an increasingly…
Let Me Sum UpSuperpower Institute Soft Launches A Little Idea Called ‘Carbon Pricing’
It’s 2026 and we’re back, baby! Clearly not much has been happening in the world since we left you appreciating the one liners of dreamy cult classic The…
Let Me Sum UpShould We Downplay Tonnes To Fight Climate Change? My Assets We Should!
We're back, and we're kicking off a big year with the first annual LMSU Summer Book Club! That is right, Tennant, Frankie, Luke and Alison curled up with a…
Let Me Sum UpTrue Love Is The Greatest Thing In The World, Except A Nice Holiday Special (They’re So Perky, I Love That)
Give the gift of LMSU BoCo to your loved ones! In the awkward position of forgetting a Christmas gift for your beloved? Want to set your climate conscious…
Let Me Sum UpWe Summed Up Twelve Papers, Til Our Summers Were Sore; Climate Christmas, We Thought, Needs Two Papers More
Subscribe to LMSU’s Patreon for a sector plan BoCo bonanza! All aboard folks! Team LMSU is continuing our BoCo odyssey, adventuring through each of the six…
Let Me Sum Up“It’s 9,058 Miles To Antalya, We’ve Got A Fraught Negotiation Agenda, Half A COP Presidency, Multilateralism Is On The Ropes, And We’re Wearing Sunglasses.” “Hit it.”
We conclude our Quokka of 2025 COP episodes by sitting down Australia's Climate and Energy Minister – and incoming COP President of Negotiations – Chris Bowen!…
Let Me Sum UpNo Sweets? Stuff This COP30 Summary Down Your Throats, Greedy Children
All aboard folks! Team LMSU is continuing our BoCo odyssey, adventuring through each of the six sector decarbonisation plans. AND we’re bringing friends!…
Let Me Sum Up"What The COP?" LIVE from the Australia Pavilion at COP30 in Brazil!
All aboard folks! Team LMSU is continuing our BoCo odyssey, adventuring through each of the six sector decarbonisation plans. AND we’re bringing friends!…
Let Me Sum UpK-COP: NDC Hunters
All aboard folks! Team LMSU is continuing our BoCo odyssey, adventuring through each of the six sector decarbonisation plans. AND we’re bringing friends!…
Let Me Sum UpHow To Slow Climate Change: Loosely, In The Sky With Diamonds
Subscribe to LMSU’s Patreon for a sector plan BoCo bonanza! All aboard folks! Team LMSU is continuing our BoCo odyssey, adventuring through each of the six…
Let Me Sum UpUnder Grattan’s eSafeguard Plan, Electricity Is Like A Baby Bird: It Goes Cheap
Subscribe to LMSU’s Patreon for a sector plan BoCo bonanza! All aboard folks! Team LMSU is continuing our BoCo odyssey, adventuring through each of the six…
Let Me Sum UpThe Ghost Of Climate Future
Subscribe to LMSU’s Patreon for a sector plan BoCo bonanza! All aboard folks! Team LMSU is embarking on a BoCo odyssey over the the next couple of months…
Let Me Sum UpT•R•E•N•D•S: The One Where Tim, Mira, Emm And Alex Model Net Zero Pathways
Time is running out to get your tickets for Chaos Trivia! Team LMSU is joining forces with the fabulous folks from Currently Speaking for a blockbuster…
Let Me Sum UpThe Hi-Lo Country (2035)
In this special, rapid reaction bonus episode (freed from the paywall, in the National Interest) we provide the hottest of hot takes on Australia's new 2035…
Let Me Sum UpOnce You Start Down The Wood Side, Forever Will It Dominate Your Destiny
Step right up and get your tickets for Chaos Trivia! Team LMSU is joining forces with the fabulous folks from Currently Speaking for a blockbuster crossover…
Let Me Sum UpClimate Hegemon: Gotta Catch Em All (Chinazard, Mimik-EU, Trumptwo)
‘Abundance v Sufficiency: Dawn of Justice’ T-Shirt Edition The sufficiency movement is winning… at least when it comes to LMSU merch! If you haven’t read…
Let Me Sum UpLike Sands Through The Hourglass, So Are The NEM Reviews Of Our Lives
‘Abundance v Sufficiency: Dawn of Justice’ T-Shirt Edition With a sufficiency of sufficiency-themed t-shirts now on the streets, the universe is out of balance…
Let Me Sum UpHey Big Spender, Blend A Little SAF For Me (Low Carbon, So Refined)
‘More Sufficiency Now!’ tees - for a sufficiently limited time only There may no longer be an insufficiency of sufficiency themed t-shirts walking the streets…
Let Me Sum UpFrankie My Dear, I Don’t Give A Damn (About GPGs not making Taxonomy v1.0)
‘More Sufficiency Now!’ tees - for a limited time only Inspired by listener Rob Law’s question on why sufficiency isn’t more of a thing in Australia, Frankie…
Let Me Sum UpWe, The Climate Wonks Of Asia, In Order To Form A More Perfect CBAM...
Frankie has a new (day) job! She’s heading to the Investor Group on Climate Change after more than nine years at the Property Council and is going to apply…
Let Me Sum UpNotorious RBD Vs (Too Much) RAB
Support us on Patreon and grab some merch The merch is flying off the shelves (and into Summerupperer mailboxes near and far!). The website is live (and…
Let Me Sum UpAbundance: A Zippy 40 Year Ride On Procedural Liberalism’s Fast Train To Nowhere
It’s hard to believe your intrepid hosts birthed this little pod into the world a whole three years ago, but here we are! Still readin’ papers, still summing…
Let Me Sum Up“Unlimited Power!!!” Cackle Energy Wonks Calculating Australia’s Clean Trade Opportunity
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Let Me Sum UpThere Is Too Much: The Federal Election's Impact On Climate And Energy Policy
Usually our Bonus Content is behind the paywall, but this week we're getting the Blue Screen Of Death from Apple Podcasts (somewhat ironic) and they won't let…
Let Me Sum UpPearls And Kidney Stones, Fresh And Steaming From The Bloody Guts Of The 2025 Election
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Let Me Sum UpIf This Is Climate Fight Club, Does That Make Nick Stern Tyler Durden?
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Let Me Sum UpKill Bills: Showdown At The House Of Blue Flames
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Let Me Sum UpThis Week on LMSU: Energy Measures That Weren't In The Budget That Wasn't Meant To Be
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Let Me Sum UpSome Energy Policies Are Bangers. Others Are The Wurst.
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Let Me Sum UpIEA Nuclear Wedge vs. CCA Atomic Wedgie
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Let Me Sum UpLMSU Holiday Special 2024: Well Excuse Me, Wolf Princess!
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Let Me Sum Up🎶 On The Third Climate Christmas, CCA Rec’d To Me / Power Builds PDQ Please 🎶
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Let Me Sum Up"COP, Collaborate And Listen" Feat. Vanishing Ice
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Let Me Sum UpCOPacetic Brazilians and Sub-COPtimal Bazillions
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Let Me Sum UpJust A Border Carbon Adjustment Adjusting Carbon At The Border (Definitely Not A CBAM)
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Let Me Sum UpFinance Your Dream Climate Now: Talk To One Of Our Friendly Multilateral Bankers Today!* (Conditions Apply)
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Let Me Sum UpISP Karaoke: Pump Up The (Gas) Volume Versus Itty Bitty Teeny Weeny Little Gas Backup Bikini
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Let Me Sum UpH2 Fast H2 Furious
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Let Me Sum UpHomes, how I upgrade thee? Let me count the ways (69)
Come join us at Currently Speaking's trivia night! Our friends at the Currently Speaking newsletter are putting on a trivia night in Melbourne on Wednesday, 23…
Let Me Sum UpFake Takes On Emissions Breaks Plus Propter Hoc Mistakes
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Let Me Sum UpClimate-Washing, SLAPP-Fights & Green-On-Green Action: No Court Shaming Here!
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Let Me Sum UpThunderstruck By Dirty Deeds On The Highway To Hell
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Let Me Sum UpNEM Are From Mars, Communities Are From Venus: A Practical Guide For Improving Communication And Getting What You Want In Your Energy Transition by Andrew Dyer, Ph.D.
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