HeyJaredThe Climate Layer
The Climate Layer makes sustainability simple and misinformation extinct. Hosted by Alex Banat, Harvard researcher and clean energy veteran, this show peels back the myths surrounding climate change, from energy and EVs to food, policy, and biodiversity.
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A Battery Doesn't Vote: How Clean Energy Got Trapped in the Culture War (opens the original)
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Wildfires don't check voter registration, and hurricanes don't care about politics. Yet in 2026, clean energy is facing unprecedented federal opposition, not because the economics fail, but because technology got swallowed by a culture war. In this episode of The Climate Layer , Alex Banat unpacks how America repeatedly pioneered clean energy technologies, from solar cells to lithium batteries, only to step aside as other nations built the future. We look at the policy shifts from Carter to toda
Why a Polar Bear in a Top Hat: The Case for the Polar Bear and the Story Behind the Logo (opens the original)
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Fourteen episodes in, and someone finally asked the question. My wife wanted to know why I chose a gentleman polar bear as the logo for The Climate Layer. And I realized I had never actually explained it. Not to her, not to this audience, not to anyone. So today we fix that. This episode is about the polar bear. Why I chose it, what it means to me, and why this animal, one of the most extraordinary creatures to ever walk this planet, has become the face of a crisis it had no part in creating. We
The Anatomy of a Lie: Unpacking Landman's Wind Turbine Scene with Matt Brady and Derek Banat (opens the original)
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First, a quick note. This episode is a little later than usual. Parenting has thrown some curveballs recently and I appreciate everyone's patience and continued support. It means more than you know. Now, onto episode 13 of our show. A scene from Paramount's Landman went viral for all the wrong reasons a few years ago. In it, Billy Bob Thornton's character delivers a confident, charismatic takedown of wind energy that was shared by oil executives, fossil fuel advocacy organizations, and a politic
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