Episodes
107
Sept. 10, 2026
I Can Fly Higher Than An Eagle, For You* Are The Wind Beneath My Wings (*Eye-watering SAF Subsidies)
Your intrepid host sum up a new consultation paper from the Albanese Government that canvasses options for kick starting Australia's low carbon liquid fuels industry.
106
Aug. 27, 2026
Above 2°C, Risk Of Human Self Sabotage Will Increase Significantly (Very High Confidence)
Your intrepid hosts sum up After2C, a website laying out four scenarios for what could take place after average global temperatures exceed 2°C.
105
Aug. 13, 2026
Live Free And Safe Guard
Your intrepid hosts sum up the new Safeguard Mechanism Review consultation paper from the Albanese Government.
104
July 30, 2026
🎶 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 🎶`
The 70s are BACK baby! (Hope you like flare jeans and oil crises).
103
July 16, 2026
NEM Governance May Need Work, But LMSU Governance Is Unimpeachable
I Am, You Are, We Are NEM Governance!
102
July 2, 2026
When Is 20 More Than 100? Beats Me(thane)
This week we present the world premiere of Muskovic’s Methane Musings: The Movie!
101
June 18, 2026
Don’t Cry For Gas, DCCEEW Dreamers, Exporters Will Never Leave You
It would seem the epic poem of gas reservation demands one more stanza.
100
June 4, 2026
LMSU Episode 100 Tops Up The National Podcast Reserve
Your intrepid hosts navigate the curliest questions y'all could conjure in this Episode 100 Ask Me Anything spectacular!
99
May 21, 2026
Data Centre Flex: Moderating Peak Loads To Calm Loads Of Pique
How the Dickens will data centres meet Great Expectations for energy demand flex?
98
May 7, 2026
Santa (Marta)’s List: These Academics Know If Your Fossil Transition Policies Are Naughty Or Nice
A Herd Of Hobby Horses, Or An Equestrian Extravaganza of Ideas for Fossil Transition? Featuring Deezy The Diesel Mascot, Matthias Cormann, Sergeant Muskovic And Other Transition Heroes.
97
April 23, 2026
Trust No One (Particularly Businesses Prioritising Quarterly Profits Over Climate Action)
The Truth Is Out There (in the donations data, say researchers researching business climate policy shenanigans).
96
April 9, 2026
IEEFA Grease Megamix: Fuel Crises, They’re Multiplying / And We’re Losing Control / So The Answer Is Clean Supplying / And Electrifying
Your intrepid hosts read a new report from IEEFA designed to get you up to speed on why Australia has been stuck in the slow lane on fuel security (and how we can get moving).
95
March 26, 2026
Oil’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 going to keep your intrepid hosts from grabbing the popcorn and settling in to watch the SA election this past weekend. Run, don’t walk, over to www.letmesumup.net and subscribe to our Patreon to hear what we make of the Malinauskas empire and an orange wave.
94
March 12, 2026
The General Theory Of Fossil Death Spirals
A fuel security crisis, a fossil death spiral and an underwhelming resource sector plan walk into a bar.
93
Feb. 26, 2026
Superpower Institute Soft Launches A Little Idea Called ‘Carbon Pricing’
The LMSU crew consider a new report from the Superpower Institute that reckons the Albanese Government should solve the budget deficit and the net zero transition with two simple, politically terrifying tricks!
92
Feb. 12, 2026
Should We Downplay Tonnes To Fight Climate Change? My Assets We Should!
The long awaited LMSU Summer Book Club, featuring special guest co-host Alison Reeve!
91
Dec. 30, 2025
True Love Is The Greatest Thing In The World, Except A Nice Holiday Special (They’re So Perky, I Love That)
Don’t rush us, Summerupperers. You rush a Holiday Special, you get rotten summaries.
90
Dec. 18, 2025
We Summed Up Twelve Papers, Til Our Summers Were Sore; Climate Christmas, We Thought, Needs Two Papers More
In which your intrepid hosts embark on an epic quest to sum up Climate Halloween, Climate Christmas and everything in between!
89
Dec. 4, 2025
“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 talk Türkiye with the incoming COP31 President of Negotiations, Chris Bowen!
88
Nov. 23, 2025
No Sweets? Stuff This COP30 Summary Down Your Throats, Greedy Children
Direct from the kitchen table at our AirBnB in Belém, we sum up all the wild scenes from the dramatic final week of COP30 in Brazil.
87
Nov. 19, 2025
"What The COP?" LIVE from the Australia Pavilion at COP30 in Brazil!
With the COP31 bid in the balance and the decision text in the ether your intrepid hosts try to work out what the hell is going on on a tumultuous day at COP30 in Brazil. Featuring special guest COP Maven Alex Scott!
86
Nov. 16, 2025
K-COP: NDC Hunters
Your intrepid hosts sum up the first week of COP30 in Belém, Brazil. Featuring special guest COP-knower, Carbon Brief's Josh Gabbatiss!
85
Nov. 6, 2025
How To Slow Climate Change: Loosely, In The Sky With Diamonds
Guterres declares overshoot ahoy on 1.5C. In case of emergency, break glass – and disperse diamonds!
84
Oct. 23, 2025
Under Grattan’s eSafeguard Plan, Electricity Is Like A Baby Bird: It Goes Cheap
It’s our party and we’ll price carbon in the electricity sector if we want to (and I’m not sure QLD is invited).