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August 26, 2020

Big Questions About Your Future (2020 Summer Replay)

This week we catch up with extreme heat coming to American cities – it will be literally “off-the-charts”. Dr. Kristina Dahl from the Union of Concerned Scientists reports. Then we check in with Canadian climate scientist Simon Donner on a wide range of big questions about your future. My thoughts go out to the millions of people in California worried or on the run as hurricane winds drove super fires across the landscape. Recorded November 6, 2019 but sounds like today!

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August 19, 2020

Venice, San Francisco, Climate-wrecking (2020 Summer Replay)

Think of the great cities about to be lost as seas rise on a warming planet. That is Venice, and our guests Gray Brechin and Luca Muscara take us there, to the battleground between human history and climate change. But we go further into the killing role of great cities and lessons for our future from the New Deal. I’m Alex Smith. Let’s explore time and place on Radio Ecoshock.

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August 12, 2020

Super Storms And Dying Coral (2020 Summer Replay)

Meteorologist & storm expert Dr. Jeff Masters on super storms predicted by James Hansen-led paper. Dr. Kevin Trenberth from UCAR has doubts about the science. Australian author & activist David Spratt on dying Great Barrier Reef.

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August 5, 2020

Climate Rebellion & Deep Adaptation (2020 Summer Replay)

Should we tell young people what we’ve done to the climate? Too late: they are telling us. From the climate talks in Katowice Poland, the student rebel who started it all: Greta Thunberg, interviewed by Stuart Scott from scientistswarning.org. From Australia to Canada young people are walking out, protesting a system designed for extinction. Then Dr. Jem Bendell a well-known Sustainability Professor from Britain walks out on green fantasy to tell us: change your plans. Climate change will collapse this system within ten years.

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July 29, 2020

Climate: Misunderstood Impacts (2020 Summer Replay)

We have three interviews this week, including 2 climate scientists. Andy Pitman: new science on how climate really hits us. Plus Johan Rockstrom, the Swedish leader of planetary boundaries, followed by Lynn Benander on community power in New England.

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July 22, 2020

Watch Out For River Floods!

This Spring Japan went under.  Now Wuhan China flooded, Bangladesh 1/3 under water.  Outside the news, COVID hometown Wuhan and the Yangtze River overflowing Three Gorges Dam. One third of Bangladesh under water. An introduction by Alex followed by two Best of Radio Ecoshock replays.  From Potsdam U. Dr. Ander Levermann explains river floods. U of Cal Dr. David Neelin says extreme rains will breach to unseen levels. Radio you need to know, even during the pandemic.

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July 15, 2020

WHEN CLOUDS CANNOT CONTINUE – THE GREAT WARMING (2020 Summer Replay)

At cloud doomsday Earth’s temperature soars 8 degrees C, 14 degrees Fahrenheit. We hope that will never come, but if we go there, that is the end. New science from the lead author, Tapio Schneider at NASA. Then from the Post Carbon Institute, Jason Bradford predicts the tide of humans into cities will reverse. The future is food, and local – and we can prepare now for the end of fossil fuels and continuing climate threats.

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July 8, 2020

HEAT STROKE: When Heat Kills (2020 Summer Replay)

While we keep pumping up greenhouse gases, and the economy staggers toward the exits, could it get so hot that large parts of the heavily inhabited Earth would have to be abandoned? I ask two popular bloggers, John Cook of “Skeptical Science” & Stuart Staniford of “Early Warning”: why are most of the public blissfully unaware of how heat kills? Scientist Mark Moffett tells how ants adapt to climate. Will ants form the next civilization – after us? [Radio Ecoshock June 11, 2010]Song clips: Bryan Adams “In the Heat of the Night”

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July 1, 2020

Heading to Air-Conditioned Hell (2020 Summer Replay)

A billion humans are already on the ventilator, breathing machine-driven air. As we’ll discover in the next three interviews, air-conditioning isn’t sustainable, and only makes the world hotter and hotter.  This as America enters uncharted territory for pandemics, especially in the South, where it’s very hot, well over 100 degrees F, or 38 C. A rare dust storm from the Sahara added more respiratory problems to millions of lungs already in danger from COVID-19.  In a Woods Hole seminar last week, American scientist Zach Zobel projected U.S southern states will go well beyond the zone where humans can survive outside.  No problem: everyone goes inside with air-conditioning – as long as the grid stays up. If the power goes out for more than a week or so, millions could flee north. This is a best of Radio Ecoshock replay.

And now we know A/C may contribute heavily to massive infection in the American South (says Harvard U.)

Guests from this 2012 show include Stan Cox, author of “Losing Our Cool”, Guus Velders, Netherlands Environment Agency, expert on ozone and climate, and Michael Sivak, from the University of Michigan.

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