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Totally Cooked is a straight-talking, science-backed podcast about weather, climate change, and what it all means for life on Earth — especially here in Australia. Hosted by Professor Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, a leading expert in extreme weather, and Iain Strachan, a former journalist turned science communicator, the show dives deep into the causes and consequences of our changing climate. With clarity, curiosity and a touch of dark humour, Sarah and Iain unpack the science behind climate change, high-impact weather, and the urgent need for action. From greenhouse gases and El Niño to ice cores, heatwaves, and hail storms, Totally Cooked connects the...
When Hollywood flash-freezes Manhattan, you get Sarah on the science and a choc-top casualty.
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A fond Twister rewatch where tornado spectacle meets the lived reality of weather expertise.
Movie Special Twister treats the film's tornadoes as a way into fear, wonder, and the shifting language of weather expertise. Sarah Perkins Kirkpatrick, Ian Strachan, and returning guest Tim revisit childhood terror around The Wizard of Oz, the unnerving tornado-movie scene, and…
Roger Dargaville puts net zero's transport and energy challenges on an engineer's workbench.
Net zero is put under practical engineering pressure here, through power systems, heavy trucks, and aircraft that cannot solve the problem by carrying heavier batteries.
A practical, grid-level look at how timing turns net zero into an everyday systems challenge.
Net zero is often framed as a finish line, but this episode treats it as a working energy system that has to keep functioning while it changes.
A brisk heat explainer with a practical fan-first idea for cooling homes more cheaply.
Extreme heat is framed as a question of the body as much as the forecast, as climate scientist Sarah Perkins Kirkpatrick and heat-and-health professor Ollie Jay join former journalist turned science communicator Ian Strachan for a lively, accessible discussion.
A reef conversation where climate science meets Green Island, sea snakes and an oil-covered penguin.
The Great Barrier Reef comes into focus through Sarah Perkins Kirkpatrick's memory of a 2000 trip from Cairns to Green Island, where going under the waves brought an unexpected absence: no reef.
A lively live lesson in the atmosphere's overlooked middle layer.
The episode keeps the stratosphere at the center, treating that layer above most weather as more than a backdrop. Sarah and the team keep the pace loose and immediate, while Julie Arblaster and Martin Yuka help make the physics clear without turning it into classroom shorthand.
A story-first science chat that makes hard ideas easier to hold onto.
This episode works best when it lets Dr Carl Kruszelnicki wander. He brings jokes, a football detour, and an odd opening yarn, but the throughline stays clear: science lands better when it sounds like a story.
Documentary storytelling on ecology and Indigenous land stewardship, hosted by Mendel and Adam.
BBC World Service reporters explain climate mechanisms and policy from the Amazon to Delhi to the Alps.
Books, systems, and the questions that unlock them.
Soil life, climate repair, practical regeneration.
Coastal science, patiently and beautifully reported.
In this wide-ranging holiday special, climate scientists Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick and Ian Strachan are joined by beloved Australian science communicator Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, who traces his awareness of climate change back to 1977 and charts the fossil fuel industry's decades-long campaign of denial and political influence.
In this live episode, hosts Sarah and Iain explore the stratosphere with experts Julie Arblaster and Martin Yuka, covering its structure, influence on weather, and key issues like ozone depletion and sudden stratospheric warmings.
Totally Cooked hosts Sarah Perkins Kirkpatrick and Ian Strachan, with meteorologist Tim, fact-check the tornado science and storytelling in Twister (1996).
Totally Cooked: The Climate & Weather Podcast continues its discussion with Monash energy-systems expert Roger Dargaville about whether Australia can reach net zero.
Totally Cooked: The Climate & Weather Podcast interviews Monash University engineer Roger Dargaville about Australia's 62 to 70 percent emissions-reduction target for 2035 and net zero by 2050.
The hosts introduce season two of their climate science podcast, previewing topics like extreme weather, biodiversity, net zero, and machine learning in climate science.
Totally Cooked: The Climate & Weather Podcast asks Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, Ian Strachan, and University of Sydney professor Ollie Jay how extreme heat affects weather, bodies, and public health.
Totally Cooked: The Climate & Weather Podcast examines whether the Great Barrier Reef can persist as climate change accelerates, with Professor Ove Herk-Goldberg explaining coral biology and reef vulnerability.
Totally Cooked hosts Sarah Perkins Kirkpatrick and Ian Strachan ask Ben Yule of UNSW Sydney how climate grief, climate anxiety, and solastalgia appear in everyday life.
Totally Cooked: The Climate & Weather Podcast examines how Australia uses weather as a resource for renewable energy, agriculture, water supplies, construction, and transport.
Totally Cooked: The Climate & Weather Podcast examines how six Australian universities quantified the climate impacts of Woodside Energy's Scarborough gas project.
Totally Cooked: The Climate & Weather Podcast features Dr.
Totally Cooked hosts Sarah Perkins Kirkpatrick and Ian Strachan examine The Day After Tomorrow’s 2004 depiction of climate science, including its use of the 2002 Larsen B ice-shelf collapse.
Totally Cooked: The Climate & Weather Podcast examines storms, tropical cyclones, hurricanes, and typhoons with Sarah Perkins, Ian Strachan, and Professor Liz Ritchie of Monash University.
Totally Cooked: The Climate & Weather Podcast follows Rachel, Will, and other climate researchers through academic setbacks, NASA internships, PhD choices, and applied climate work.
The hosts discuss hail formation and the impacts of hailstorms, blending personal anecdotes with scientific explanation.
Hosts Sarah and Iain introduce the topic of how climate change affects everyday weather, starting with extreme heat in Australia.
This episode explains the scientific evidence for human-caused global warming and introduces key historical climate scientists.