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Host of syndicated weekly Radio Ecoshock Show – the cutting edge with top scientists, authors and activists. Tenth year on the air as of 2016. Previously a researcher for global environment group, print journalist, homesteader, world-traveler, and private investigator.

Food Crisis In Hot World

Scientists find global food production will drop around 25% in a heated world – despite adaptation by farmers and new tech. Two plant scientists explain cutting edge tools to prepare key crops for climate change. From University of Illinois, Dr. Stephen Long reports  …

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Wild Card Smoke

Wildfire smoke will slow down warming. New science with Dr. Edward Blanchard-Wrigglesworth in Seattle. It’s big. Plus drought advancing, becoming more extreme due to global warming. Lead Author Solomon Gebrechorkos from Oxford explains. Potsdam research scientist Stefan Rahmstorf on AMOC collapse. New maps  …

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When the Dragon Comes

Have we already passed the point of no return for Polar glaciers? Explore with top glaciologist Dr. Chris Stokes from Durham University UK.  But first, Canadian fire expert Michael Flannigan reports on the latest giant outbreaks in the North.  Tens of thousands evacuated.  …

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Forever Chemicals – the gift that keeps on killing

As Trump tosses regulations, PFAS – the “forever chemicals” continue their killing spree.  Humans and animals already have them in our blood. Colorado Hill reporter Sharon Udasin new book “Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America”. What really moves people to climate  …

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Heat Surge – is it termination shock?

What is behind the strange burst of heat around the world and crazy weather? Hear best answers from a half dozen experts including: Michael Mann, James Hansen, Gavin Schmidt, David Victor, Leon Simons, George Tselioudis, and YangYang Xu. Listen to or download this  …

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Cope and Cool Down

We have to cope. A comprehensive new study finds the best ways to cool down cities with Canadian scientist Scott Krayenhoff. First we explore the dragon: can the world feed itself as we heat up the planet? When crops go bad, society can  …

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Rebel Against the Crash (replay)

We all know the car of civilization is heading into climate meltdown. In a rare radio interview, Dr. Jem Bendell explains “Deep Adaptation”. Keep listening for Skeena Rathor, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion. Then a quick look at what a different Elon Musk was  …

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Black Start

John Timmer, Senior Editor of Ars Technica explains why they can’t just switch the power back on.  Reviews and on-the-ground reporting from the blackout in Spain and Portugal. Off to Shangri-La. A world expert on Deep Time Professor Robert Spicer joins us. Is  …

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Fear and Loathing in the Atmosphere

Professor Antonio Lazcano: repression of science in the U.S. through the lens of political strongmen in Latin America. What can science-killing in Nicaragua, Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico tell us about the Trump repression? Followed by latest news – like Goddard Institute for  …

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Slashing Science In the Heat

California climate scientist and Weather West blogger Daniel Swain covers the latest U.S. purge of weather and climate science. But first, a new public health study about your body. How much heat before lasting damage kicks in? From the T.H. Chan School of  …

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Murder in Broad Daylight

Killer summer heat in Spring? Don’t worry. Donald Trump shoots the messengers. Closing down climate in NASA and NOAA, the news from Paul Voosen at the American Academy. The voice of Canadian weather and science David Phillips helps process the news. Plus a  …

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Urgent Planet & Manufactured Fright

Yes, yes the stock market. Does it matter water is being sucked out of the land and dumped into rising seas? What about emissions as we industrialize the ocean? Will growing conflict slow heat or speed it up? We have 3 guests to  …

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