Latest awful science on climate’s impact: dead zones, acidification, extinctions. Forget Obamamania and gowns on the red carpet – oh, by the way, the oceans are dying. This show begins with clips from the 1973 classic “Soylent Green”. The usual warnings apply: people …
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This is Radio Ecoshock. I’m your host, Alex Smith. Our audio show begins with a 21 minute interview with Robert Kunzig, author of “The Drying of the West” in the February issue of National Geographic. A great science writer and researcher, Robert Kunzig …
The report is called “Cool Farming: Climate impacts of agriculture and mitigation potential” It’s from Greenpeace International. We have with us one of the authors, Dr. Pete Smith from the School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen. Dr. Smith was also a lead …
How will we live as oil declines – and the price keeps going up? In our previous program, we ran the first hour of a speech by James Howard Kunstler, given as the first visiting scholar to the Urban Studies Program at Simon …
James Howard Kunstler lecture as 1st visiting scholar to Simon Fraser Urban Studies 080124 From the Long Emergency to new measures after Peak Oil. The best speech of the year so far. Why the housing boom will not return, and what that means …
[Show script][to hear the program, click the title above] [sci-fi – but all too true clip from trailer for new game] Our opening clip comes not from a documentary of our times, but from a trailer for a new video game called “Frontlines, …
This is writer, activist and hitchhiker MacDonald Stainsby. He is coordinator of a website called oilsandstruth.org. The Tar Sands megaprojects in Northern Alberta, Canada are so horrible, so insane, I don’t really want to talk about it. In fact, most Canadians – and …
As the poles melted, the world governments assembled at the tropical paradise of Bali, to confront the climate crisis. With Canada running interference (threatening to kill the conference) – the U.S. APPEARED to give in – but actually gave up nothing. As we …
In the summer of 2005, the Arctic Ice drew back, to reveal a record amount of northern ocean. The summer melt of 2007 was 23 percent bigger. We are losing the annual white reflective cover over the Arctic Sea. The whole climate system …
[SHOW TRANSCRIPT] The carbon bomb. Were the recent wild fires in California a sign of global warming? Did you know that the whole American West is tinder, ready to burn? Today we start with California, but then discover the whole Rocky mountain chain …
In the last few years, as the North heats up, wild fires have been burning, unreported and unopposed, across the top of the world, in both Canada and Siberia. The latest climate models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change does NOT …
Sir David King warns we are headed toward a hot-state planet, not seen since 55 million years ago (when life huddled on Antarctica). The only way out, he says, is a binding international agreement by 2009. Even so, we only have a window …