7 Mar 2026

Climate agony: Martha Jeffries

From Saturday Morning, 9:40 am on 7 March 2026

It's been a week of anxiety inducing climate bombshells, including the release of new research showing incorrect modelling has significantly underestimated rising sea levels.

Martha Jeffries is a television producer and director of the Emmy award-winning climate series, Years of Living Dangerously. She talks to Susie about trying to interest Hollywood in climate narratives and why she's gearing up to be a climate agony aunt!

This is a heat map showing trends in ocean temperatures around New Zealand, the pacific and east coast of Australia.

Photo: Phil Sutton (ESNZ)