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The Year in Climate

2019 Review

This podcast is on the most pressing issue of our time: Climate change. As the United Nation's 25th Climate Conference begins in Madrid, we review the year and talk about the various scientific reports that have come out, highlighting one main thing: we are at a very crucial time and we need to take action NOW. We give highlights of the IPCC report that came out in October, the recently published Emissions Gap Report by the UN, the warning by 11,000 scientists of a climate emergency and finally, the latest report highlighting the growing threat of abrupt and irreversible climate change tipping points.

(Is Climate Change Leading Us to Category 6 Hurricanes?)

I hope you enjoy the show. You can read the blog on this topic here. You can also subscribe to the You Tube Channel for more on science, history and nature and please do check out the website and follow on social media: Twitter // Instagram // Facebook.

Music: Moonrise by Chad Crouch – Instrumental from Free Music Archive.

This podcast is on the most pressing issue of our time: Climate change. It is a review of all the climate emergency news and data that came out in 2019.

Podcast on Darwin and Evolution by Natural Selection. Darwin's gave us the idea that changed the world.

The Idea that Changed the World

Darwin & Evolution by Natural Selection

In this episode we celebrate the 160th anniversary of a publication that changed scientific thinking completely.

On November 24, 1859, Charles Darwin published his work: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; an account of the greatest story ever told — that of evolution by natural selection.

We discuss Darwin's life and talk about the theory of evolution. Please check out Darwin's drawing of the tree of life and the doodles his children made on his draft manuscript below. Read the complete blog here. You can also subscribe to the You Tube Channel for more on science, history and nature and please do check out the website and follow on social media: Twitter // Instagram // Facebook. Please also check out the podcast on Alexander von Humboldt.

Music: Moonrise by Chad Crouch – Instrumental from Free Music Archive.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How Cassini made the Earth smile

Today we are going to talk about an exceptional mission. Over 20 years ago, on October 15, 1997, the Cassini space probe was launched. Last week marked its 22nd anniversary. Its objective was to study the most magnificent planet in our solar system, Saturn, its rings and moons. Called the Cassini-Huygens Space Research Mission, in addition to NASA’s Cassini probe, it included the European Space Agency’s Huygens lander, which was to land on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, also the second largest moon in the solar system. Cassini was the fourth probe to visit Saturn (after Pioneer 11 and Voyagers 1 and 2) and the first to enter its orbit. This was one of the most ambitious efforts in space exploration ever mounted and was conducted jointly by three space agencies: NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. You can read our blog on this here. You can also subscribe to the You Tube Channel for more on science, history and nature and please do check out the website and follow on social media: Twitter // Instagram // Facebook.

Music: Moonrise by Chad Crouch – Instrumental from Free Music Archive.

Main sources/ credit for images and information: NASA and European Space Agency 

Podcast on the Cassini spacecraft & its 13 year orbit around Saturn. It sent back images and data that gave us information about Saturn, its rings & moons.

On our history podcast we feature a very influential scientist that you may never have heard of Alexander von Humboldt. Humboldt penguin is named after him.

Alexander von Humboldt, a scientist you've never heard of

You may have heard of the Humboldt Current and of the the Humboldt Penguins but you probably don't know after whom they were named. Today we feature a very influential scientist that you may never have heard of: Alexander von Humboldt. It was his birthday on September 14, so this is a good time to talk about him. He was a polymath, geographer, scientist, naturalist, explorer, philosopher and painter. Below are some of his drawings. You can check out the blog here. You can also subscribe to the You Tube Channel for more on science, history and nature and please do check out the website and follow on social media: Twitter // Instagram // Facebook. Please also check out the podcast on Darwin and Evolution.

Music: Moonrise by Chad Crouch – Instrumental from Free Music Archive.

 

Turning CO2 into rocks

Climate change is perhaps the most pressing issue currently facing humanity. We are aware of the damage our unplanned and unsustainable use of fossil fuels has wreaked on every aspect of our lives. News articles are replete with new data on climate change impacts and the need to curtail carbon emissions.

This is where the CarbFix project comes in. The revolutionary technology developed as part of this project demonstrates the ability to capture CO2 emissions and turn them into subsurface carbonate minerals (basically into rocks) in less than two years.

You can also subscribe to the You Tube Channel for more on science, history and nature and please do check out the website and follow on social media: Twitter // Instagram // Facebook.

 

Turning carbon emissions into rocks. How CarbFix utilises the ability to capture CO2 emissions and turns them into subsurface carbonate mineral.