Experts find food riots are possible in the United Kingdom as climate change ramps up. From Cambridge Aled Jones outlines how food stress boils over. Around the world, crops may not be planted or harvested when it gets too hot to work outside. …
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We are sinking in heavy weather. Elders are up to 75% of climate-driven fatalities in developed world disasters. Seniors expert Danielle Arigoni on her new book book “Climate Resilience for an Aging Nation”. Then Lauren Stuart, Scientific Officer for the World Meteorological Organization …
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Behind all the crisis, the wealth machine pulls money up to the one percent. The worse things get, the less for everyone else. Author and activist Marjorie Kelly: “ “Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today’s …
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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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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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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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Can cleaner air push us over the climate cliff? Special investigating air pollution: hidden warming, long-range damage with drought & rain – and to your health. New science with Geeta Persad on missing climate risk of aerosols. Followed by a replay of Leon …
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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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Is this the new stormy climate James Hansen warned about? Investigate extreme rain and flash floods with expert Jonathan Gourley from NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory. But Australian climate lecturer Andrew King cautions not all floods are sure signs of global warming. Then …
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The U.N. chief warns: “Climate breakdown has begun.” In this show you hear unreported climate change: “Antarctic Extreme Events” with lead author Martin Siegert, Imperial College London. Plus Dr. Martin Jucker on early start to ozone hole – and the Tongan volcano warming …
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With more extreme wildfires, atmospheric scientist Peter Bernath on fires and ozone damage; UNEP report: “Spreading Like Wildfire” with Dr. Andrew Sullivan of CSIRO, Australia. Emissions & temperatures reach new high, polar ice a new low. News & science from the climate front. …
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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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