Degrees of Change

Climate news without panic, every Friday

Callum Reid2 episodes1 min of audio96 playsEpisodic

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S1 · E2Sep 20, 20260:3957 plays Preview

The heat index, insurance retreat and a small good study

A new heat index changes how cities issue warnings, insurers quietly withdraw from a flood-prone region, and a small but careful study on urban trees gets the attention it deserves.

S1 · E1Aug 30, 20260:4539 plays Members

Battery prices, a coastal court case and the wheat belt

Grid battery prices fall again, a court decides who pays when a coastal road is abandoned, and a dry spring puts a major wheat belt on watch. Callum sorts signal from noise.

About the show

Degrees of Change is a weekly climate news show that treats you like an adult. Callum Reid, a former environment correspondent, picks the three or four developments of the week that will actually matter, from a court case about coastal planning to a shift in battery prices or a drought warning in a food-growing region, and explains them with numbers you can check. He is careful about uncertainty, says so when a study is small, and keeps a running list of predictions so listeners can hold him to them. The format is a solo briefing of around 30 minutes with one short interview most weeks, usually a scientist, an engineer or a farmer rather than a campaigner. It comes out every Friday afternoon. It is for people who want to follow the subject seriously without doom or cheerleading, and who would rather know what a heatwave means for a wheat harvest than see another photo of a polar bear.

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