Alisha Wainwright

speaker

565 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 3 Jun

Alisha Wainwright’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 6 in all, peaking in May 2026 with 3.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

When Science Finds a Way · Is tackling super pollutants an emergency brake for climate change? · 3 Jun 2026 podcast

Is that kind of a way to think about it?

Something in my research for this episode I found really interesting, and it might be so obvious to everyone else, but I just didn't put two and two together, is that air quality and air pollution and things that can affect climate change or accelerate global warming, they might not necessarily be the same thing, but that super pollutants do both those things.

So air pollution can have negative impacts on our health,

global warming and climate change can have impacts on our health in a very long-term way, but super pollutants fit in this sort of Venn diagram in the middle of doing both of those things.

So super, I feel like is fairly accurate because it is really negatively impacting people on both fronts.

Can you give us a bit of context about the intersection of air pollution and climate change when it comes to super pollutants?

Agreed.

So coming up, we're going to talk about an intervention focused on tackling black carbon, specifically in the brick kiln industry.

But can you tell us a bit about the climate impacts of black carbon?

Glaciers just seem like such a fickle thing and they seem so robust and vast.

And at the same time, you could just line some gunpowder or black soot on it and and and crumble and separate it.

And it's also to when I think about.

global warming and the glaciers, I'm thinking about it from such a big picture perspective, that general warmth is what's melting the glaciers.

But when you layer that factor in with black soot and particulate matter that's creating a film on the glaciers, that is also having

intense detrimental effect.

So the combination is creating that acceleration.

I think that's such a really crystal clear example of how these super pollutants work in sort of twofold, like to be able to make situations so much worse.

Well, let's talk about one of these solutions and interventions.

Tom has already mentioned brick kilns as an example source of black carbon.

Brick kilns are big business across South Asia.

Showing 21–40 of 565 · page 2 of 29