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The RADIO ECOSHOCK Show Alex Smith
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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: This Future Doesn’t Work (replay)
World cities projected to go 4 degrees C hotter and beyond – scientist Lei Zhao. Dr. Robert Nicholls of UK Tyndall Centre finds plans to green the planet with bio energy creates water stress for billions of people. Johannes Lohmann from the University …
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Radio Ecoshock: 27 Ways Heat Can Kill You
Update 2024. How your body breaks down in extreme heat. We start with paper “Twenty-Seven Ways a Heat Wave Can Kill You: Deadly Heat in the Era of Climate Change”. Medical terms explained. Short clips from Ecoshock interview with lead author Dr. Camilo …
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Radio Ecoshock: Cat 6 and Beyond – What You Need to Know (replay)
Will climate change foster super storms bigger than anything before? Dr James Hansen warns “yes” and Meteorologist Jeff Masters explains. First, we revisit a fundamental interview with MIT’s Dr. Kerry Emanuel, surely one of the world’s top hurricane experts. Get informed and get …
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Radio Ecoshock: The Great Acceleration – toward an unknown climate (replay)
Science shows humans have left the stable patterns of former climates. From the Stockholm Resilience Center, Owen Gaffney explains. As Australia burns with heat, Tasmanian scientist David Bowman reveals great regions of the world where fire will strike.
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Radio Ecoshock: Mass Heat Deaths Arrive
Over 1000 worshipers died of heat in Mecca Saudi Arabia. During long extreme heat domes over India, Mexico, North Africa and the Middle East – nobody counted the dead. Only Europeans and North Americans matter to big media. After an extreme weather update, …
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Radio Ecoshock: Are You A Climate Survivor?
In a deadly dance of unbearable heat and extreme rains, people look for answers. Our guest Chris Kocher is a “recovering lawyer” who founded Extreme Weather Survivors. You also hear from author/activist Bill McKibben, Aaron Regunberg of Public Citizen, and Cathy Mulvey from …
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Alex connects the dots and asks great questions of leading climate and environment experts. He doesn’t gloss over the bad news but also presents the good news of people trying to live healthier smarter ways in this world messed up by greed, colonialism, and impatience.
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A top climate change communicator with a gift for clarity, Canadian Alex Smith does his homework to ask the most intelligent questions of his interviewees, who are also the world's top experts.
All of us are going to affected by climate change, eventually threatening global food and water supplies. If the European refugee situation isn't bad enough, just imagine 20 million climate refugees. If you do not have food and water, nothing else in your life matters.
This is not a wandering chat, nor a gloom and doom surrender. Radio Ecoshock focuses on the latest research and points you towards what you can do for everybody's children.