News imageThe Climate Question, The Climate Question, Q&A: The jobs of the future, nitrous oxide, ice cores

The Climate Question

The Climate Question

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

21 December 2025

28 minutes

Available for over a year

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

Got a question or a comment? You can email us: [email protected]