Drilled
A true-crime podcast about climate change. Reported and hosted by a team of investigative climate journalists, Drilled examines the various obstacles that have kept the world from adequately responding to climate change.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 213
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
S2E2: A Late Season and a Shaky Future
As the 2015 delay wears on, and holiday markets come and go, crabbers are getting desperate. Some are forced out of business, others worry that this is the new normal.
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00:17:16 |
Mon 22 Apr 2019
S2E1: A Crisis, a Cover-Up, and a Community on the Front Lines of Climate Change
In 2015, West Coast crab fishermen were shut down by climate change. Atmospheric changes had warmed waters and upended everything from the food chain to ocean upwelling. They didn't realize it would …
00:22:21 |
Mon 22 Apr 2019
Coming Soon: Hot Water, a New Drilled Series
In 2015 a warm water "blob," the result of both warming oceans and shifting wind patterns, wreaked havoc on West Coast fishing towns. Three years into a new reality in which climate change has shifte…
00:02:05 |
Wed 03 Apr 2019
Big Oil's New Story: The First Amendment Covers Climate Denial
In a batch of aggressive countersuits, Exxon is accusing the counties, cities, and states of conspiring to quash its First Amendment rights to political speech. It's an idea with a long and twisting …
00:26:04 |
Tue 05 Feb 2019
Winning the War
Fossil fuel industry influence campaigns ensured that we lost a critical 30 years not taking action on climate change. But all is not lost. The technology to address climate change exists, and if the…
00:21:51 |
Tue 09 Oct 2018
Campaigns So Successful They've Landed in Court
The fossil fuel industry's decades-long information war was so successful that even though oil companies themselves began publicly accepting climate science years ago, the public remains skeptical. F…
00:17:33 |
Tue 02 Oct 2018
The First Step to Influencing Policy: Setting Research Agendas
If you unravel climate policy back to its origins, eventually you get to academic research. Although oil companies dramatically reduced their own scientific research on climate in the 1990s, by the e…
00:16:53 |
Tue 25 Sep 2018
Aggressive Think Tanks, Shouty Pundits, and a New Religious Argument
To make media manipulation and lobbying truly effective, oil companies and their public relations firms also had to shift the culture, influencing everything from civil discourse to how religious gro…
00:19:12 |
Tue 18 Sep 2018
Weaponizing False Equivalence
As climate disinformation campaigns ramped up in the 1990s, oil companies and their PR firms exploited weaknesses in the U.S. media system and propped up "contrarian" scientists to push the narrative…
00:19:23 |
Tue 11 Sep 2018
The Turn
As the price of oil dipped in the early 1980s, management changed at most oil companies and the industry as a whole became more concerned with preserving its core business than expanding in new direc…
00:19:41 |
Tue 04 Sep 2018
The Bell Labs of Energy
In the 1970s and early 1980s, Exxon wanted to be the Bell Labs of energy. It hired brilliant scientists who conducted cutting-edge research on everything from the "greenhouse effect" to renewable ene…
00:18:00 |
Wed 29 Aug 2018
Exploiting Scientists' Kryptonite: Certainty
In addition to using journalists' views on their own objectivity against them, oil companies exploited various weaknesses in science, namely scientists' tendency toward not prioritizing or valuing go…
00:14:56 |
Tue 28 Aug 2018
Drilled: A True Crime Podcast about Climate Change
Launching November 14th, Drilled is a limited series investigative true-crime podcast about the crime of the century: the creation of climate denial.
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00:02:26 |
Mon 28 May 2018
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