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Radio Ecoshock weekly 1 hour 14MB mp3 program featuring the latest science, authors and issues - from climate change, oceans, forests, pollution, Peak Oil, the economy, and peace.

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Radio Ecoshock weekly 1 hour 14MB mp3 program featuring the latest science, authors and issues - from climate change, oceans, forests, pollution, Peak Oil, the economy, and peace.

    Radio Ecoshock: Nomad Century & Bad Banks (replay)

    Radio Ecoshock: Nomad Century & Bad Banks (replay)

    Are your savings helping the mad new expansion of fossil fuels? From RAN, Dr. April Merleaux names big banks expanding oil, gas & coal from the Arctic to the Amazon. From London, broadcaster, author, and science journalist Gaia Vince on coming mass climate  …

    • 1 hr
    Radio Ecoshock: The Coming Monster Heat Waves

    Radio Ecoshock: The Coming Monster Heat Waves

    New monster heat waves are killing people across the world: the old, children, mothers, simple outdoor workers. A new analysis shows oil and gas production from just five well-known corporations will kill at least 5 million people, and maybe more than 10 million  …

    • 1 hr
    Radio Ecoshock: Why So Hot So Fast?

    Radio Ecoshock: Why So Hot So Fast?

    Gavin Schmidt is Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. He tells us “Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly – we could be in uncharted territory.” Meanwhile, so much ice is melting at the Poles, Earth’s rotation is changing.  …

    • 1 hr
    Radio Ecoshock: Climate Sci-Fi Gets Too Real

    Radio Ecoshock: Climate Sci-Fi Gets Too Real

    Is it science or fiction? Both! Top climate science fiction writers Kim Stanley Robinson & Bruce Sterling. Robinson shocked the world with his 2020 book “The Ministry of the Future” where 20 million people perished in a massive heat wave. We talk consequences  …

    • 1 hr
    Radio Ecoshock: Whiplash & Greenlash: Latest Tipping Point News

    Radio Ecoshock: Whiplash & Greenlash: Latest Tipping Point News

    When big systems flip into another state, that is trouble for species needing normal. Like us. We get the latest on global tipping points in 2023 from one of the world’s experts, Professor Tim Lenton from Exeter University. Then we explore earth energy  …

    • 1 hr
    Radio Ecoshock: Is This a Glimpse of the New Hot Future?

    Radio Ecoshock: Is This a Glimpse of the New Hot Future?

    Lost in endless political hype, this planet is hotter. Expert Earth System Modeler Till Kulhbrodt says this may be a glimpse of a future three degrees above pre-industrial. Are we approaching tipping points, or are some already behind us? We revisit an interview  …

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