Geoversiv - Earth Intelligence

Kathryn Kaiser and Clara Garner are high-achieving high school seniors with big college plans. They are also inexhaustibly energetic in the youth movement designed to change adults' future-vision. Organized under the ClimateGeneration mantle and the YEA program (Youth Environmental Activists), they meet, and often graciously confront, legislators, city council members and anyone who will listen to them. Their message is simple: We are here and you need to pay attention...

Nancy Maclean is the decorated Duke University professor of history and award-winning author of Democracy in Chains: the Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America. In this episode Professor Maclean traces the threads that connect the powerful influence of Charles and David Koch and their rise to power. The story connects the Koch dynasty and its affiliated "think tanks," as well as its mouth-pieces in Congress, to a steady, but frightening effort to destro...

Susan Joy Hassol is one of the foremost climate communications specialist in the world. She has been the writer behind three of the National Climate Assessments, using language that non-scientists can comprehend. In this episode, the award winning mind behind the award winning HBO documentary "Too Hot Not to Handle," tracts in Scientific American, the Washington Post , ABC's 2020 and much more, will share with you real talk about how to make sense of climate science, and ev...

Dr. Jessica Hellmann is the Director of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota. A scholar and scientist, she was recently published along with her co-authors in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on the question of geoengineering which has found great favor in the tech world. While Dr. Hellmann says there may come a time when we, on this planet, may need this tool - not enough research has gone into the "side effects" of this prescription....

Dr. Edward Maibach is one of the foremost communications scientists in the country.On climate change, it is a contest between fact and opinion, between science and those who, for monetary reasons or politics, deny that science - and therefore deny the existence of a warming planet and all the dangers that portends.Dr. Maibach has begun enlisting the help of meteorologists and journalists in the news media to educate themselves on the far reaching impacts of the science. When he began, i...

A continuation of our discussion with Dr. Benjamin D. Santer, one of the foremost atmospheric and climate scientists on the planet. As lead author of Chapter 8 of the 2nd IPCC assessment, he wrote the words that changed the world: science had detected a human influence of global climate. The genie was out of the bottle. Science could win the war of facts versus opinion. But, what happened during the Trump years when science took an awful beating. How demoralized ...

Dr. Benjamin D. Santer is an esteemed and highly decorated atmospheric scientist.He was the lead author of Chapter 8 of the 2nd Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He wrote the words never written before by any scientist that the balance of scientific evidence showed "a discernible human influence" on global climate. The words were accurate and based in science, but it led to organized attacks against him from fossil fuel interests. He had ripp...

Todd Churchill is a rancher who uses regenerative agricultural practices, and partners with Nature to raise protein in an ever food insecure planet. Grass-fed beef, using natural grasses and no corn or soybeans, are all pesticide-free, hormone free, medicine free and fertilizer free.The only inputs Todd uses is what Nature provides. He likens the practice to the massive herds of American bison that sustained indigenous people for centuries, while building soil carbon and encouragi...

In this episode, a tough discussion of the realities of the systemic injustices baked into our system. How bias affects not only climate change policies, but creates unnecessary and terrible burdens on minorities in the United States. Our guest is Tina Johnson Director of the National Black Environmental Network and Principal of Johnson Strategy and Development Consultants. Working with top US NGOs, the UN and international governments, she uses diplomacy, strategic developm...

Dr. Sandra Guzman is a specialist in low carbon development and climate finance. She is the founder of International Alliances at the Climate Finance Group for Latin America and the Caribbean. Her PhD is in politics, her Masters in Environmental Policy and Regulation from the London School of Economics and a diploma in Sustainable Finance from Oxford. The question is whether the powerful finance sector and fossil fuel dependent countries and carbon intensive industry will em...