The Australian wildfires – a warning to the world? I interview Dr. Barry Brook a climatologist from Adelaide. Brook was named one of the top 10 bright young scientists in Australia. His blog makes a strong case that the drying of Australia shows …
Whenever politicians and greens talk about alternative energy, the list usually goes wind, solar, and tidal power. But how real is tidal power? Where will it happen and when? This week on Radio Ecoshock you’ll hear Martin Burger, CEO of a tidal power …
[opening Quote from John Kerry on the looming catastrophe in climate change] That is Senator John Kerry, Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. This is Radio Ecoshock. I’m Alex Smith, and you are about to get 20 minutes of the latest from …
This is Radio Ecoshock. I’m Alex Smith with eye-popping headlines on the triple crisis: Peak Oil, climate change, and economic collapse. While America basks in Obama, Europe quietly fell further apart over the week-end. On Martin Luther King Day, the British government announced …
Jack Nicholson: “You Can’t Handle the Truth” All right, I admit it. I can’t handle the truth. Friends and family losing their jobs, and their self respect. Even German billionaires are throwing themselves under trains. It used to be so easy out on …
1. Testimony to Select Committee on Energy Independence & Global Warming Dec 9. On auto bail-out & real future of green transpo. Clips from Chairman Ed Markey, Member Jay Inslee, plus testimony from Joan Claybrook of the watchdog group Public Citizen (founded by …
It’s the double whammy: the economy and the climate crash at the same time. Outgoing President Bush is exercising his scorched Earth policy on BOTH, as he slides out the door. This is Radio Ecoshock with Alex Smith. The news is pouring in …
Dr. Paul Ehrlich is our feature speaker this week on Radio Ecoshock. His 1968 book “The Population Bomb” awoke the world to the ecological and social threats behind exploding human population. Since then, Paul Ehrlich and his wife Anne have published dozens of …
By Alex Smith, Radio Ecoshock Script for Ecoshock Show October 3, 2008 [Crowd chants protest against bailout on Wall Street] That is the Wall Street Protest crowd you never heard on TV. One reporter in a nice suit spoke over them, never offering …
Radio Ecoshock takes on the financial crash, funding for green jobs instead of banksters, and youth organizing to get green back in the elections. We start with a brand new interview with independent journalist Mike Whitney. He’s been writing searing articles (for the …
A double-header, with two “don’t miss it” interviews. We start out with Dr. Peter Ward author of the revolutionary climate book “Under A Green Sky.” Peter has just returned from an exploratory trip in Australia, and will head to Antarctica later this year. …
Ecoshock Show 080815 Top IPCC organizer & U of Arizona Professor Jonathan Overpeck speech at Washington U. given on April 1st, 2008. After updating the world climate report, Overpeck predicts climate impacts on North America. His focus, on the two worst climate problems …