Q&A: The jobs of the future, nitrous oxide, ice cores

We answer YOUR climate questions – on everything from “green”
careers to ice cores to the world’s electricity challenge!


In this edition of The Climate Question, Host Graihagh Jackson
explores your climate-related headscratchers. Her panel chat
about the new jobs that will open up as the world economy moves
away from fossil fuels – and the skills that will be needed.


They also discuss the dangers of nitrous oxide – a planet-warming
gas, but also crucial for the fertilisers that help feed us. And
have you ever wondered how scientists actually date the ice cores
they dig out of glaciers. Some of them are 100,000s of years old!


Plus: the controversial scientists who’ve won the Nobel Prize,
and is there anywhere on Earth that’s untouched by humans?


Host: Graihagh Jackson Guests: BBC Climate Editor Justin Rowlatt,
BBC CrowdScience Presenter Caroline Steel, and Akshat Rathi,
Bloomberg Senior Climate Reporter and Host of the Bloomberg Green
podcast.


Production Team: Diane Richardson, Nik Sindle, Graihagh Jackson,
Grace Braddock Sound Mix: Tom Brignell Editor: Simon Watts


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theclimatequestion@bbc.com