IN REVERSE CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER… starting with our most recent show
2026 SEASON
War Against the Atmosphere – Iran March 11, 2026 – Experts warn about the climate cost of modern war. Dr. Patrick Bigger, Research Director at Climate and Community Institute. Neta Crawford, Brown University, author of “The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War: Charting the Rise and Fall of U.S. Military Emissions.” Journalist Mark Hertsgaard with Giles Trendle, former Managing Director of Al Jazeera English. It’s a full load for this climate emergency, getting hotter all the time. What will this frivolous burst of masculine violence in the Middle East cost the future? Download or listen to this Radio Ecoshock show in CD Quality (57 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB)
Smoky Twilight March 4, 2026 – Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney: the international order is broken. Is climate cooperation done for? What now? Political Science Professor Matthew Hoffmann talks us through it. But we begin with the biggest under-rated climate killer in America: wildfire smoke. Shocking new science with Dr. Chris Callahan. Plus scientist Sarah Berk: cities are getting hotter faster. Welcome to Radio Ecoshock, let’s go. Download or listen to this Radio Ecoshock show in CD Quality (57 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB)
Killing American Science February 25, 2026 – No rules now. Eat your smog, enjoy disasters. Trump killing American climate rules and science. Voices outside the bubble of U.S. corporate media: Germany, Canada, UK, France – and Democracy Now. This includes mini-interviews with Bob Ward from Grantham Institute and science historian Robert Proctor. First, super scientist Ben Santer tells Carbon Brief why he had to leave America. Download or listen to this Radio Ecoshock show in CD Quality (57 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB)
Meltdown Sounds – The Permafrost Pulse February 18, 2026 – Warning: Speed Bump. The deep freeze holding thousands-year carbon is thawing faster. The Arctic tosses gigatons of CO2 and methane into the atmosphere. The newest permafrost science with Christina Schädel, Senior Research Scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center in Massachusetts. Strangely, the third worst warming gas may become less serious as the world heats up. Atmosphere scientist Michael Prather with sort of good news on nitrous oxide. Satellites reveal global algae is expanding, in new places. It that good or bad? We ask Dr. Brian Barnes from the University of South Florida about the latest science. Welcome to Radio Ecoshock. You get three interviews, no time to waste, let’s go. Download or listen to this Radio Ecoshock show in CD Quality (57 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB)
AI SWARMS: we are not ready… February 11, 2026 – AI swarms – self-directing fake “persons” around us. When AI swarms connect unreality grows. Dr. Daniel Schroeder Lead Author of the new paper “How malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy”. Clips from Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti on Breaking Points “AI Bots Plot Human Downfall On Moltbook Social Media Site”. Dark thoughts interrupt…Alex rants on emergent group cognition and the last stand of consciousness. Download or listen to this Radio Ecoshock show in CD Quality (57 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB)
Climate Killer: America’s Fatal Oil Grab February 4, 2026 – What does Trump’s push for more oil, gas and coal mean for our climate future? Alexis Normand, CEO of data firm Greenly adds it up: Texas, Venezuela, Greenland …Canada? An in-depth review. Plus: fossil decline has tipping points and economic land-mines. “Fossil energy minimum viable scale” with Joshua Lappen and Emily Grubert with a new warning in Science magazine. Download or listen to this Radio Ecoshock show in CD Quality (57 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB)
Contrails, Climate, Ocean Tipping January 28, 2026 – Forget conspiracy. Contrails are real and dangerous to climate – from Sweden’s Chalmers University of Technology, Dr. Daniel Johansson. While thousands died of heat in Europe in 2003, a marine heat wave ripped the North Atlantic. From Germany, Dr. Karl-Michael Werner, of the Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries in Bremerhaven. Meanwhile, the Pillars of Wealth remain oblivious at Davos. Full speed ahead, fossil fuel for a hot militarized world. This is Radio Ecoshock. I’m Alex Smith. Download or listen to this Radio Ecoshock show in CD Quality (57 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB)
Glaciers extinct & wildfires out of control January 21, 2026 – In 15 years, Earth will lose thousands of glaciers every year. New science on “Peak glacier extinction” – Swiss glaciologist Lander Van Tricht. Australia over 45 degrees C, 113 F. – and burning again. “Gazing into the Flames” – wildfire expert Hamish Clarke. More buildings lost to wildfires in the U.S. – Dr. Amanda Carlson. Cold to really hot this week on Radio Ecoshock. Download or listen to this Radio Ecoshock show in CD Quality (57 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB)
The Very Thing That Makes You Rich January 14, 2026 – “Climate change has already made the United States poorer” Arizona Economics Professor Derek Lemoine reports. How could carbon from our tailpipes make the sea acidic? Exactly how does that work? Tulane Chemist Bruce Gibb explains with a great 15 minute mini-lecture on Radio Ecoshock. Welcome. I’m Alex Smith. Download or listen to this Radio Ecoshock show in CD Quality (57 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB)
Meet the Evil Twin – Ocean Acidification January 7, 2026 – New science shows ocean acidification has already passed the safety limit set by the Planetary Boundary Framework. We reached a founder in the field, recently retired NOAA Senior Research Scientist Dr. Richard Feely. That is coming up, but first an introduction from Biological Oceanographer and Lead Author Dr. Helen Findlay from the UK’s Plymouth Marine Laboratory. Even if carbon dioxide was not a greenhouse gas, our emissions would seriously damage the majority of Earth’s life. Humans cannot directly see it. Acidification involves science few people have. No industry or even special interest gains by communicating this threat. Ocean acidification has been called “the evil twin of global warming”. I’m Alex Smith, welcome to this in-depth reporting on ocean acidification. Download or listen to this Radio Ecoshock show in CD Quality (57 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB)
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