The Weekly Hoon: The Middle East fuel crisis & more

About this episode

The episode discusses the Middle East fuel crisis, geopolitics, and climate change with insights from various guests.

The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale talking with regular guest Cathrine Dyer about geopolitics, the economy, climate change and politics. This edition also includes discussions with with special guest Geoffrey Miller, a strategic analyst with a PHD in New Zealand’s relations with the Middle East. This week: * Bernard and Peter began with a chat about the conflict in the Middle East and the fuel crisis. They also talked about Bernard being in Wellington for the Kia Tika, Kia Pono—For A Just Society conference organised by Vic Uni’s Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies. * Bernard, Peter and Cathrine then talked about research via James Hansen about a Super Duper El Niño , and research on an increased risk the AMOC will collapse early. * Bernard, Peter, Robert and Geoffrey talked about events in the Middle East. The Hoon’s podcast version above was recorded on Thursday night during a live webinar for over 200 paying subscribers and was produced and edited by Simon Josey. The Hoon won the silver award for best current affairs podcast in last year’s New Zealand Podcast awards…

People in this episode

Hosts: Bernard Hickey, Peter Bale

Guests: Cathrine Dyer, Geoffrey Miller

Topics covered

• Middle East conflict
• fuel crisis
• geopolitics
• economy
• climate change
• politics

Keywords

• Middle East
• fuel crisis
• geopolitics
• climate change
• economy
• El Niño
• AMOC

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Vic Uni’s Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies, The Hoon, New Zealand Podcast awards

Places: Wellington

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