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JAMES HANSEN – Super Warming in the Pipeline

Global warming is accelerating, at double the rate just a dozen years ago. The target of 1.5 degrees Celsius is “dead as a door-nail”. Earth will warm not 3 degrees, but 4.8 degrees C – 10 degrees F. – according to former NASA  …

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Dangerous Contradiction: “Green New Deal”

Is the “Green New Deal” a solution or another problem? Rethinking our options first with Dr. Ted Trainer, founder of The Simpler Way in Australia. From Cambridge, political economist Jeremy Green finds dangerous myths in the New Deal for an overloaded system. Look  …

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Destabilized Weather in an Unstable World

New tested science shows your body’s heat tolerance is much lower than experts assume.  Dr. Daniel J. Vecellio warns of “Greatly enhanced risk to humans” as humid heat stress strikes billions of people sooner than expected.  We just lived through: the big heat  …

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It Was The Hottest of Times

During global heat records, a world-scale carbon burst is still pouring out of Northern Canada’s wildfires – bigger than the emissions of most countries. Explore with Professor Justin Angle author of “This Is Wildfire: How to Protect Yourself, Your Home, and Your Community  …

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Hippos in London: Rising Methane & “Termination Event”

Climate can flip to a new state, quickly.  Is strangely rising methane a signal of a “termination event”? Dr. Euan Nisbet, Royal Halloway, University of London with worrying new science.  We explore abrupt climate shifts with Prof. Niklas Boers, Technical University of Munich  …

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Disaster in the Making: Cascading Tipping Points & Permafrost (replay)

Top European scientists warn tipping points could cascade toward absolute climate disaster. Prof. Tim Lenton from U of Exeter. Permafrost expert Susan Natali from Woods Hole explains CO2 pouring out from the WINTER Arctic.   Listen to or download this Radio Ecoshock show  …

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Real Answer: Post Growth and Degrowth (replay)

UK, Professor Tim Jackson on his book “Post Growth: Life After Capitalism”. Lorenz Keysser from ETH Zurich takes it further: planned decline coupled with increasing well-being – degrowth. Stock markets, banks, every business – everybody wants to grow more and buy, buy, buy.  …

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Creating alien intelligence – what could possibly go wrong?

Israeli historian, author & scholar Yuval Noah Harari blows our minds, going beyond human with artificial intelligence. How long before it surpasses us, evolving beyond control – and takes over? What then? Selections from from the Frontiers Forum April 2023, and Jordan Harbinger  …

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Climate Catastrophe Could Be Very Close

Just as we feared, new science confirms tipping points and climate catastrophes can arrive much, much sooner than we were told. A must-listen interview with UK research scientist and lead author Simon Willcock. Seems like it’s already here, with extreme heat punishing every  …

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The Rush to Wreck the Planet

Hot world and blistering speech at U.N. by Secretary General Antonio Guterres. Sea ice expert Dirk Notz: new science shows summer Arctic sea ice gone within 10 years? Oil industry takes over the COP climate process. The crazy rush for methane power –  …

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Why Make a World Nobody Wants?

Why are we heading hell-bent into a world that nobody wants?  Social philosopher Daniel Schmachtenberger warns adding AI to our unsustainable system will speed disaster for humanity.  Daniel talks with UK science communicator & former pro poker player Olivia “Liv” Boeree.  Then Canadian  …

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On Fire Again

Early Spring wildfires cover parts of North America with smoke. Record temperatures roast the Pacific Northwest, again. India and Thailand went into their ninth straight week of unbearable heat. That’s how it was last week. This week you will hear 3 of my  …

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