A Matter of Degrees Podcast Transcripts
Dr. Leah Stokes, Dr. Katharine Wilkinson · 55 episodes with transcripts
Give up your climate guilt. Sharpen your curiosity. Join Dr. Leah Stokes and Dr. Katharine Wilkinson as they tell stories about the powerful forces behind climate change — and the tools we have to fix it. This show makes sense of big climate questions and critical topics.
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The Carbon Wave
August 25, 2026
Leah Stokes (0:00)
On July 14th, 2022, the climate bill that I had worked on for years seemingly died. Senator Joe Manchin, the pivotal 50th vote, had walked away from the negotiation table again. In Washington, my friend Adrian Deveny, a Senate staffer, sat in his home office, watching his kids through the glass door and sobbed.
He had given a decade of his life to this bill. He barely slept for three days. And out in California, I held my not quite one-year-old twins and cried too. Late that night, another friend, Sonia Aggarwal, called from the White House. She'd been working on this bill for almost 18 months straight. The two of us had…
Katharine Wilkinson (2:02)
I'm Dr. Katharine Wilkinson. In this episode, we are once again flipping the format. But today, Leah is the one in the hot seat because, drum roll, she wrote a new book.
Leah Stokes (2:13)
That's right. I have a new book out September 1st. It's called The Carbon Wave, A Story of Democracy, Parenthood, and the Race to Protect Our Planet. The book tells the unlikely story of how the largest climate law in American history passed, the so-called Inflation Reduction Act.
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