Radio Ecoshock


Wildfire smoke will slow down warming. New science with Dr. Edward Blanchard-Wrigglesworth in Seattle. It’s big. Plus drought advancing, becoming more extreme due to global warming.  Lead Author Solomon Gebrechorkos from Oxford explains.  Potsdam research scientist Stefan Rahmstorf on AMOC collapse.  New maps of extreme cold in Europe’s future. Plus more on warming acceleration.

Wild Card Smoke

Three experts on extreme heat: Elizabeth Hanna, Robert Kopp and Jonathan Patz. Deadly unheard-of heat in France, Spain and EU. The U.S. East Coast roasting over 100 degree F. in June. Around the world, people die and many more will be killed by heat in the future. But how does heat kill? and who? A compilation from the best of Radio Ecoshock.

HEAT STORM! How it kills and who. (replay)

Climate-driven extreme weather can suddenly change your life. Hear eight climate survivors from the U.S.A. and Canada, from stormy Louisiana to the Canadian Arctic. We travel to burned out Paradise California and drowned Vermont.  If these stories don’t move you, see a heart specialist.  Warning: these are stories of raw trauma.

Extreme Weather Survivors Speak Out (replay)

This week we're looking at air-conditioning.  Are we heading into artificially cooled caves as the outdoors becomes unbearably hot?  In some places, anyone who can has already abandoned the summer streets, traveling between air conditioned rooms in air conditioned cars.  If the grid fails, or electricity becomes too much, what then? And all the while, the gases used to cool your food in ships and trucks, in a billion refrigerators and hundreds of millions of air conditioners for homes, malls, offices and factories, is escaping into the upper atmosphere, like a blanket warming the world.

The Truth About Air-Conditioning (replay)

Extreme heat and heavy rains amplify one another: a new conversation with “Earth systems nerd" Jan Umsonst in Germany. Jan explains why with new science. Alex covers breaking science on extremes happening now: fires, flash floods and record smashing heat around the world, with audio from David Spratt, John Betts, and Jonathan Gourley.

Fear, Fire, Floods (New)


Why are so many experts and bloggers predicting more cold outbreaks as the planet warms?  Our UK scientist Edward Hanna explains.  What happened the last time Earth’s atmosphere carried so much carbon dioxide? Welcome to the Mid-Pliocene Warm Period.  With just 400 parts per million CO2 Earth went over 3 degrees C hotter.  Sea levels were at least 27 feet higher.  We get the inside scoop in new science led by New Zealand scientist Georgia Grant.  High science and deep time this week on Radio Ecoshock.

High Science - Deep Time

Radio Ecoshock is a weekly program broadcast on over 106 college & community radio stations in the U.S., Canada, UK, and Australia - by listener donations.  Podcast: http://www.ecoshock.org/podcasts
We cover the environment (lots on climate change), energy, and occasionally the big picture economy.  Lively radio for deadly times.

High Science - Deep Time

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