GO straight to the Full Transcript with links now. Coast to Coast AM covers the Gulf: RICHARD C. HOAGLAND: “Gas explosion, 50 miles off Louisiana, that you can imagine. Think Mount St. Helens, underwater. What that would do is create a cloud of …
Around the camp fire, humans tell horror stories. About goblins, and dark conspiracies of death. Soon after the shock of the BP Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the cranks rolled out new tales that tell us a lot about the human …
While oil gushes out of the Gulf, and the economy staggers toward the exits, scientists continue to investigate our longer future. For example, could it get so hot that large parts of the heavily inhabited Earth would have to be abandoned? And I …
This program is really two tied together. It’s about oil activism, with ideas you can use. Then a funny but serious speech on media activism, by Andy Bichlbaum of “The Yes Men”. In the first half hour, Radio Ecoshock covers the various anti-BP …
What makes a mild-mannered biology professor call for a planned collapse of the economy? Canadian scientist Bill Rees would know. He was an inventor of the ecological footprint concept, and has been measuring our impact on the planet for decades. Now he’s worried …
“Look. I’m going to do my best to end up in a kind of hopeful optimistic place. But – I am by nature, by sort of profession, I am kind of a professional bummer-outer of people. So we’re going to have to deal …
Today, more cars are sold in China than in the United States. Chinese companies, many state-owned, are traveling the world to buy up oil to power them. We are already going to extremes to keep our own fossil economies going – blowing the …
Black oil, millions of years old, gushes out of a gash in the Gulf of Mexico. One of the world’s largest companies, BP, formerly British Petroleum says it’s 1,000 barrels a day, then 5,000. Satellite photos suggest 25,000 a day. In a closed …
This Ecoshock program features two interviews. We start out talking about South America, and how changes to the Amazon rainforest could impact the climate of the whole world. I also cover two jaw-dropping stories this week: #1. the complete fake-out as General Motors …
If I feel a strain this week, it’s not because of the volcano blowing planes out of the sky over Europe. Unless the larger Icelandic volcano nearby goes off, scientists say the dangerous ash will not really cool the planet much. It may …
Get back to where you once belonged. Get your hands dirty, with this week’s grow-op on Radio Ecoshock. We’ll hear from the young farmers movement, with film maker and dirt farmer Severine von Tscharner Fleming of Greenhorn Radio. Community supported agriculture, organic, getting …
In the Spring of 2010, the East Coast of the United States was nearly drowned in an extreme precipitation event. Ditto parts of Australia, and Rio in Brazil. This is the other half of “global warming” – global wetting. Scientists have been warning …