Johan Rockström on missing 1.5C lifts The Climate Question

A day-old episode of the BBC World Service podcast, built around the climate scientist's warnings about tipping points, started at nearly fifteen times the channel's usual first-day pace.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 101,454 views a day, 15 times a normal first day on this channel (6,938).

Has the world lost the fight against heat? - The Climate Question podcast, BBC World Service

Can the planet's temperature be brought back down once it has gone past 1.5 degrees? That is what The Climate Question asked Johan Rockström, and the episode is now the busiest new video on BBC World Service.

A fresh upload here usually has a modest first day. This one started at nearly fifteen times that pace, on a day when the channel as a whole was also running above its usual level.

Hosts Graihagh Jackson and Jordan Dunbar begin with a UN warning, laid out in the episode notes, that the world will cross the limit agreed in Paris within the next few years. Their guest is director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and is best known as the lead author of the planetary boundaries framework, an attempt to map the safe operating limits of Earth's systems. Here he explains the tipping points in coral reefs, glaciers, rainforests and ocean currents, and why nature is struggling to soak up carbon.

The chapters go on to carbon removal and tree planting. The last one asks something the title does not: whether there is any reason for hope.

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The numbers

The figures show a podcast episode starting far faster than a typical new video on this channel.

the video's first day

usual first day here

6,938

this video

101,454

subscribers

2,210,000

total views

377,279,835

views per day

661,758

typical day: 459,101

the video

views

69,176

likes

851

comments

309

days online

1

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

7NEWS Australia

2,250,000

ITV News

2,250,000

NowThis

2,230,000

BBC World Service

2,210,000

CBC News: The National

2,200,000

GBNews

2,190,000

As of September 29, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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