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Radical Uncertainty

From the University of Bristol UK, scientist Dann Mitchell points to cumulative risks no one is counting.  Can extreme climate-driven disasters change minds – even in right-leaning people?  California business school marketing expert Rafay Siddiqui reveals how they get you to buy more  …

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How to Defuse A Climate Bomb

Coal industry dwindling? That myth is blown up by German environmentalist Heffa Schücking.  Then: 17,800 years ago, methane shot up in decades.  Rapid ice melt changed the rain and an age of wildfire broke out.  Is it happening again? We ask Ben Riddell-Young  …

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Mercury Tears and Climate Fears

Remember Romans becoming stupider due to Lead in their plates and goblets? Mercury poisoning drifts to the farthest corners, even the Poles – and reduces IQ just like Lead. Scientist Ari Feinberg from The Spanish National Research Council explains Mercury in the stratosphere.  …

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Killer Climate Myths

Two deadly myths made it to the top.  From Australia, leading scientist Andrew King: climate change will continue for a thousand years after Net Zero. Swedish scientist Wim Carton introduces his new book with Andreas Malm: “Overshoot: How The World Surrendered to Climate  …

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Arctic Flames

The Arctic burns as never before. Scientist Jennifer Balch introduces new climate “fast fires”. Reports from the north fire-front: a panel on Arctic wildfires at the Arctic Circle Assembly in October.  Changes in the Arctic change the world, but it is a lawless  …

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Jeremy Rifkin: Revolutionary Change

“We have misunderstood the planet we live on – that misunderstanding has taken us to an extinction event in the 21st century.” Jeremy Rifkin is the big-picture man behind “The Third Industrial Revolution” in Germany and China, visionary of mega-trends like “The End  …

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Atmospheric Rivers: A New Face of Climate Change

From Vancouver to Asheville N.C., atmospheric rivers smash rain records, homes and lives. North Carolina scientist Dr. Orrin Pilkey: “nobody expected this” in a climate haven. Scientist Dr. Qinghua Ding says atmospheric rivers are changing both Poles. Alex with news beyond election theater  …

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Killer Myths & Perilous Times

Half of scientists polled think we are headed for a 3 degrees C hotter world within a single lifetime. From Exeter University UK, Professor Tim Lenton returns with the 2024 State of the Climate Report. His colleague at Exeter Dr. James Dyke fact-checks  …

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Milton: Florida Paradise Lost? 4 Experts

After Hurricanes Helene & Milton, four experts on disaster storms during human-made global warming. Storm-chaser Meteorologist Jeff Masters; Senior Research Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Dr. Michael Wehner; highly-cited storm scientist Kerry Emanuel from MIT; Environmental Planner Patrick Marchman: will there  …

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My God The Machine

When disaster comes, and governments can’t help, people boil over. From Athens, we talk with foreign correspondent and climate security analyst Peter Schwartzstein. His new book is: “In The Heat and the Fury: On the Frontlines of Climate Violence”. Then: why are scientists  …

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Sold Out to the Volcano

Did a South Pacific volcano cause extreme heat waves of 2023 and ’24? Atmospheric scientist Mark Schoeberl investigates. Bleak big picture with Greek author George Tsakraklides: climate collapse in necro-capitalism. Plus clips from two new climate songs. Listen to or download this Radio  …

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Climate Hope and Horror (replay)

Three degrees C warming by 2050? Catastrophe, and what we have to do to avoid it – famous American scientist V. Ramanathan from his life work & new science. Dr. Andy Ridgwell from UC Riverside on the last great warming of 5 degrees  …

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