Faster Than Expected - podcast

I apologize, I am not able to publish podcast episodes on a regular basis.

But I promise I will continue until the Internet is switched off or the sky falls on our heads. During a social media break I have deepened my work. It is not so important how often I publish something. The main thing is that I can offer something that helps you, dear reader or listener.

Jan Wyllie‘s little story will sound quite harmless. But hear it as a story how climate change can harm us - you and me. Abrupt climate change will harm us all - faster than expected - and maybe from an unexpected direction.

shownotes: https://fasterthanexpected.one/fte30

„Der Tod ist ganz ungefährlich“

Book title by Wilfried Reuter

Among other things, I'm talking about vision boards. Dr. Karen Wyatt presents this great tool in her End of Life University podcast. A vision board may help to have a positive vivid and clear vision of your own death.

For us, who are involved in thinking about extinction, this is a wonderful opportunity to brighten dark expectations of our collective death. Why shouldn't it be bright, peaceful and beautiful?

shownotes: https://fasterthanexpected.one/fte29

While I am recording this episode in July 2018 everywhere on the globe we are witnessing extreme weather events. For months it is really hot and dry in Germany. On this walk I am talking about these climate situations. Since 1750 we have a global temperature increase of 1.75° Celsius. With a ice-free Arctic we could have a very fast jump of further 4° C or more. Adding a removed global dimming effect we may have +6-7° in a short period of. Faster Than Expected!

shownotes: https://fasterthanexpected.one/fte28

On a dog walk again. Akela has a injured paw. I am walking and talking about the schizophrenic summer 2018 in Germany. It seems that everybody likes it to go out sit and drink a coffee or eat an ice cream. Only the farmers begin to talk about an emergency situation.

Just walking and talking.

Still my purpose is this:

I want to support people, who are brave to face the collapse of our biosphere, to be aware how precious life is and not to be alone.

So I have accepted the challenge to talk English in a free and I hope more fluent way. And I didn’t edit the recording. So you’ll hear all my “hms” and “ähs”. But I guess that disturbs me more than you.

more on: https://fasterthanexpected.one/fte26

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle. ~ Robert Anthony

Let‘s take a swig with Jan Wyllie. Together with Simon Eaton he has founded The Database of Environmental Change. It‘s a collection of more than 40,000 articles and their headlines about environmental issues. And it‘s growing fast. This is really core journalistic work what they are doing.

You can find the tool at www.open-intelligence.co.uk. But before you look around there please listen to Jan Wyllie about the background and purpose of their work. Or do it the other way round.

This podcast episode has been an experiment of an audio and video version. But that didn‘t work. So I decided to split this episode into three parts:

1) First you‘ll hear from Jan Wyllie about his professional background and motivation to work on such a database.

2) The second part is a video, where Jan gives us a brief introduction how to use the database tool. You ca find it embedded in the shownotes fasterthanexpected.one/fte25

3) Then please come back to hear from Jan, how he is dealing with his emotions while he is improving his knowledge about the environmental disaster.

In my view he is one of the leading scientists, who is engaged in the topic of abrupt climate change. But nobody knows who is behind this name, he prefers to remain anonymous.

In this episode of the FasterThanExpected podcast we focus on the question:

How is ice melting in the Arctic and methane influencing the global temperature?

About the melting ice in the Arctic we had heard from Thorstein Viddal and Peter Wadhams in the first part of my Arctic series. The thickness and volume of the ice is at a record low. With Jennifer Hynes I have talked about the Methane Monster, that is out now.

Sam Carana is the main writer onArctic News blog, that describes the situation in the Arctic, focusing especially on the threat of large abrupt methane eruptions from the Arctic Ocean seafloor.

Sam Carana gives no audio or video interviews, but he has been so kind to give me a written interview. I am thankful, that Kevin Hester from New Zealand will take his part in this recording.

Links

* Arctic News blog http://arctic-news.blogspot.de/

* Sam Carana: Will humans be extinct by 2026? http://arctic-news.blogspot.de/p/extinction.html

* Sam Carana: Climate Plan http://arctic-news.blogspot.de/p/climateplan.html

In this second part of the series about the Arctic I am talking with Jennifer Hynes about methane release in the Arctic and the exponential way it is accelerating. The last episode No. 21 in November 2017 has been about the melting Arctic Sea ice, especially the volume had a record low in 2017. The melting leads to an increasing temperature of the water. The permafrost is thawing and the outgasing of huge methane deposits has begun.

Jennifer Hynes

With Jennifer Hynes I have already talked about tipping points in the 8th episode in March 2016 and about a Blue Ocean Event one year ago.

http://xwer.de/en/sag-002-tipping-points-climate-and-personal

http://xwer.de/en/sag-008-blue-ocean-event

Since Jennifer has published two videos, Methane Monster 1 and 2, she is one of the Arctic and methane experts. It’s still highly recommended to watch these introductions to abrupt climate change.

Methane Monster II ~ Demise of the Arctic:

https://jenniferhynes99.wordpress.com/methane-monster-ii-demise-of-the-arctic/

Methane Monster

In 2017 Nick Breeze has published an interview with Shakhova and Semiletov. This time he concentrated on the subsea permafrost on the Siberian Arctic shelf. While permafrost and gas-hydrates are melting on the sea bed, Gas migration paths building in degrading permafrost acts like a Champagne cork.

Subsea permafrost on East Siberian Arctic Shelf in accelerated decline

http://envisionation.co.uk/index.php/nick-breeze/203-subsea-permafrost-on-east-siberian-arctic-shelf-now-in-accelerated-decline

One remarkable statement is:

„Emissions that are occurring right now are the result of a combined effect of natural and anthropogenic warming and they will be accelerated until warming is turned to cooling. Even after it happens, there is no mechanism to stop permafrost disintegration in the ESAS...“

The Keeling Curve

2017: The Keeling Curve animation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEbE5fcnFVs&sns=em

Shownotes:

http://xwer.de/fte23

During the last year 2017 I have published 12 episodes, including this one. Please listen to the excerpts of the episodes that have been played most. This is a review of the FasterThanExpected podcast in 2017.

New Launch

I had a break in the first half of the year. I have not been satisfied with the attention my work has received, especially the German episodes. I recognized that I had two different target groups: the international English speaking community, who is familiar with abrupt climate change and the resulting near-term human extinction and the German speaking group, where scarcely anybody has heard about „Abruptem Klimawandel“.

I decided to concentrate on the first group and had a new launch in June 2017 with Listening in the Rain Forest, a talk with musician and instrument builder Catherine Thompson, who is living in Thailand. Kind regards to you, Cathrine.

Stats

The podcast had 4100 total plays in 2017. I had nearly 10,000 hits on the shownote pages of my website xwer.de.

Now, here are my charts of 2017:

The Third

The third place in my podcast chart is:

FTE18 - Exponential Disaster

This episode from October 2017 had 193 plays. That is not really much attention, but I am aware, that only a few people in the world want to know something about the upcoming disasters. In this episode I have been talking with the American disaster manager Nick from ReliefAnalysis. I have talked with him about different phases of disaster management, about exponential extreme weather events and about a hospice situation.

Place two

FTE15 - worldwide connected: Water

This is an episode co-hosted by Kevin Hester from July with 252 plays.

We have dedicate this episode to the animals and the burden inflicted on the other species by us, Homo sapiens. Billions of animals are dying and suffering. And 200 species (of animals and plants) are going extinct every day.

The first place

And now, ta ta ta, the first place of the FasterThanExpected Charts:

FTE13 - Biology for doomers

This conversation with the one and only Guy McPherson from June 17 had 1343 plays.

What makes a biologist like Guy McPherson suppose, that the climate change leads to the demise of the human species? One of the answers we hear in this episode is:

Habitat, habitat, habitat!

2018

Well, I am not doing this work for clicks in the internet in the first place, but for you dear listeners. By the way, I enjoy it to produce podcast episodes. And it‘s mental hygiene for me to talk with people on the same wavelength about this difficult topic.

In 2018 I will go on with the series about the Arctic. It‘s funny, I had planned to have weekly episodes in December, but now I am slower than expected. I hope we‘ll meet again in 2018. And if you hear this episode in 2018, I see, you are back again.