The RADIO ECOSHOCK Show

By Alex Smith

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

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The RADIO ECOSHOCK Show episodes:

06.26.2024
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...
06.19.2024
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...
06.12.2024
Radio Ecoshock: Extreme Weather Survivors Speak Out
Climate-driven extreme weather can suddenly change your life. Hear eight climate survivors from the U.S.A. and Canada, from stormy Louisiana to the Canadian Arctic. We travel to burned out Paradise California and drowned Vermont. If these stories don’t move you,...
06.05.2024
Radio Ecoshock: Dead Coral & the Metabolism of Capitalism
Global coral could disappear in one lifetime, after millions of years on Earth. Listen to the Director of NOAA’s Coral Reef Watch Program Derek Manzello. Then Dr. Eric Pineault on Social Ecology, and the dangerous metabolism of Capitalism. Will we...
05.29.2024
Radio Ecoshock: Climate Killers Go on Holiday
Tornados, killer heat domes, and tipping points: we have it all. Climate scientist Paul Beckwith and Alex cover the latest shocking climate news and science in a destabilizing the world. How, why, and when. Plus 2 AI climate songs: “One...
05.22.2024
Radio Ecoshock: Shades of the Future
How hot will people get, how many dying, before someone tries geoengineering? Should scientists test out last-ditch solutions? Long-time journalist, film-maker, and author Dr. Gwynne Dyer says “yes” in his new book “Intervention Earth – Life-Saving Ideas from the World’s...
05.15.2024
Radio Ecoshock: Drop The Distractions: Transcontinental Extreme Heat
Mexico, Africa, Southeast Asia is burning hot as never before. New state of the world? From Ahmedabad India, Dr. Minal Pathak reports from one of the hottest. Is the new heat beyond science? From Aix Marseille Université France, senior research...
05.09.2024
Radio Ecoshock: Climate Homicide
Records show fossil fuel executives and big corporations knew their products would cause disastrous global damage – for decades. Should they be charged with homicide? From Public Citizen David Arkush makes the case. From Rutgers, Journalism Professor Melissa Aronczyk on...
05.01.2024
Radio Ecoshock: O Artificial Savior From the Heat
Millions are caught in the climate fire. Australian scientist Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick on global overview: “Extreme terrestrial heat in 2023”. But it is not just climate. Huge natural systems are failing. From University of Hawaii, Dr. Charles Fletcher is co-author of...
04.24.2024
Radio Ecoshock: Extreme Heat = More Mass Migration (replay)
Extreme heat and rising seas will push hundreds of millions of people toward sanctuary. New compilation of previous interviews: Alex de Sherbinin reveals hundreds of millions of climate refugees expected by an unlikely source: the World Bank. What cities, deltas...
04.17.2024
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...
04.10.2024
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...
04.03.2024
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...
03.27.2024
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....
03.20.2024
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...
03.13.2024
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...
03.07.2024
Radio Ecoshock: Broken News
Amid human disasters, some hope evolution can save us. Maine Professor Tim Waring worries evolutionary design may stop humans from solving climate change. New science: a major meltdown in Antarctica can happen not in thousands of years, but less than...
02.28.2024
Radio Ecoshock: Why Renewables Cannot Power Your World – Simon Michaux
Renewables cannot power the world we know. Dr. Simon Michaux from the Geological Survey of Finland crunched the numbers: not enough time, and not enough metals. In this unique interview on Rachel Donald’s PlanetCritical broadcast, Michaux explains the limits –...
02.21.2024
Radio Ecoshock: 2 Degrees by 2030 and Panic Politics
1.5 degrees C is already behind us. Could 2 degrees of warming arrive by 2030? Despite pushback, Dr. Malcolm McCulloch makes the case from Perth, during Australia’s roasting, hottest-ever February. But first, UK Professor Emeritus and psychoanalyst Paul Hoggett on...
02.14.2024
Radio Ecoshock: Cat 6, Grid Down & the Behavior Crisis
Horrendous climate-driven storms are here. From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, senior scientist Dr. Michael Wehner makes the case for Cat 6. Electricity from natural gas is more reliable than renewables, right? Wrong. Mark Specht from the Union of Concerned Scientists...
02.07.2024
Radio Ecoshock: Climate Cities: Radical Adaptation
Is your city ready for extreme heat, floods, and wind? No. It is time for “Radical Adaptation” with Professor Brian Stone, Director of the Urban Climate Lab at Georgia Tech. Can we still make cement, steel – the basics –...
01.31.2024
Radio Ecoshock: Methane: Monster Or Myth?
Cornell Professor Robert Howarth returns to Radio Ecoshock reporting the whole Liquefied Natural Gas process leaks so much methane it may be worse than coal for the climate. Oxford Professor Raymond Pierrehumbert tells us methane worries are overblown. Carbon dioxide...
01.17.2024
Radio Ecoshock: UNREPORTED: Amazon Emergency & Destabilized Atmosphere
The Amazon – lungs of the world – is in last-stage crisis. It is boiling in record smashing heat, drought, and fire. We visit the last stand with Rhett Butler, Founder and CEO of independent media hub Mongabay. Does it...
01.11.2024
Radio Ecoshock: Spectacle, Necrocapitalism, & Methane
Welcome to a wild ride into “Necrocapitalism” – cutting observations by Greek scientist and author George Tsakraklides. Then more worrying news about methane: frozen under the deep sea around every continent, methane can melt, migrate and release closer to shore....
01.04.2024
Radio Ecoshock: Avoiding the Doom Loop in the Age of Crisis (replay)
Can crisis tip us into an ecologically sane civilization? UK Think tank report author Laurie Laybourn on a future where disasters ripple across the world. Then let’s get away – to Antarctica. Why did sea ice crash around that frozen...
01.03.2024
Radio Ecoshock: Why Renewables Cannot Power Your World – Simon Michaux
Renewables cannot power the world we know. Dr. Simon Michaux from the Geological Survey of Finland crunched the numbers: not enough time, and not enough metals. In this unique interview on Rachel Donald’s PlanetCritical broadcast, Michaux explains the limits –...
12.27.2023
Radio Ecoshock: Dirty Air or Sudden Heat?
If we clean up air pollution, the weather gets hotter and wilder. From Norway, Dr. Bjorn Samset explains the stakes. Then from Harvard, Dr. Francesca Dominici reveals shocking new science: just a short exposure to bad air kills seniors! I’m...
12.20.2023
Radio Ecoshock: Beat the Soaring Heat
With research into heat and the limits of human health Dr. Ollie Jay, Director of the Heat and Health Research Incubator at the University of Sydney. Doctor and University of Sydney Professor Adrienne Gordon explains her specialty in care of...
12.13.2023
Radio Ecoshock: When Will the Food Riots Come?
Experts find food riots are possible in the United Kingdom as climate change ramps up. From Cambridge Aled Jones outlines how food stress boils over. Around the world, crops may not be planted or harvested when it gets too hot...
12.06.2023
Radio Ecoshock: Living Climate Collapse In Real Time
UN head António Guterres: “Record global heating should send shivers down the spines of world leaders.” Ice-world has tipped – no going back. Dr. Twila Moon from National Snow & Ice Data Center new “State of the Cryosphere 2023 Report”....
11.29.2023
Radio Ecoshock: Dying For Fossil Fuels
We are sinking in heavy weather. Elders are up to 75% of climate-driven fatalities in developed world disasters. Seniors expert Danielle Arigoni on her new book book “Climate Resilience for an Aging Nation”. Then Lauren Stuart, Scientific Officer for the...
11.22.2023
Radio Ecoshock: The Plan To Wreck The Atmosphere
Fossil fuel producers expand production while promising to reduce emissions,. They plan to keep mining and pumping carbon past the year 2050. The “2023 Production Gap Report” shows brain-breaking disconnects in word and deed. Co-Lead Author Michael Lazarus explains. Then...
11.15.2023
Radio Ecoshock: Wealth Supremacy Vs. Climate Doom
Behind all the crisis, the wealth machine pulls money up to the one percent. The worse things get, the less for everyone else. Author and activist Marjorie Kelly: “ “Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of...
11.08.2023
Radio Ecoshock: JAMES HANSEN – Super Warming in the Pipeline
Global warming is accelerating, at double the rate just a dozen years ago. The target of 1.5 degrees Celsius is “dead as a door-nail”. Earth will warm not 3 degrees, but 4.8 degrees C – 10 degrees F. – according...
11.01.2023
Radio Ecoshock: Dangerous Contradiction: “Green New Deal”
Is the “Green New Deal” a solution or another problem? Rethinking our options first with Dr. Ted Trainer, founder of The Simpler Way and Pigface Point, Australia. From Cambridge, political economist Jeremy Green finds dangerous myths in the New Deal...
10.25.2023
Radio Ecoshock: Blinded By The Event Horizon
How big-name companies insuring coal could crash the economy and the planet – a new interview with Carly Fabian of Public Citizen. After Biden’s approval of massive new “natural” gas expansion, we review the risks with a replay interview –...
10.18.2023
Radio Ecoshock: Destabilized Weather in an Unstable World
New tested science shows your body’s heat tolerance is much lower than experts assume. Dr. Daniel J. Vecellio warns of “Greatly enhanced risk to humans” as humid heat stress strikes billions of people sooner than expected. We just lived through:...
10.11.2023
Radio Ecoshock: It Was The Hottest of Times
During global heat records, a world-scale carbon burst is still pouring out of Northern Canada’s wildfires – bigger than the emissions of most countries. Explore with Professor Justin Angle author of “This Is Wildfire: How to Protect Yourself, Your Home,...
10.04.2023
Radio Ecoshock: Breaking: Smog Forces Climate Changes
Can cleaner air push us over the climate cliff? Special investigating air pollution: hidden warming, long-range damage with drought & rain – and to your health. New science with Geeta Persad on missing climate risk of aerosols. Followed by a...
09.27.2023
Radio Ecoshock: Hippos in London: Rising Methane & “Termination Event”
Climate can flip to a new state, quickly. Is strangely rising methane a signal of a “termination event”? Dr. Euan Nisbet, Royal Halloway, University of London with worrying new science. We explore abrupt climate shifts with Prof. Niklas Boers, Technical...
09.20.2023
Radio Ecoshock: Global Super Rain: the new face of climate change
Is this the new stormy climate James Hansen warned about? Investigate extreme rain and flash floods with expert Jonathan Gourley from NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory. But Australian climate lecturer Andrew King cautions not all floods are sure signs of...
09.13.2023
Radio Ecoshock: Extreme Antarctica, Ozone & Heat
The U.N. chief warns: “Climate breakdown has begun.” In this show you hear unreported climate change: “Antarctic Extreme Events” with lead author Martin Siegert, Imperial College London. Plus Dr. Martin Jucker on early start to ozone hole – and the...
09.06.2023
Radio Ecoshock: Harsh Climate: Summer of Discontent
Did we just enter a new climate? Recent heat, rains, and violent storms struck around the world. Meteorologist & storm-chaser Bob Henson covers extreme weather for you. As big oil and gas pump out more death – We should sue...
08.30.2023
Radio Ecoshock: A World on Fire (replay)
With more extreme wildfires, atmospheric scientist Peter Bernath on fires and ozone damage; UNEP report: “Spreading Like Wildfire” with Dr. Andrew Sullivan of CSIRO, Australia. Emissions & temperatures reach new high, polar ice a new low. News from the climate...
08.23.2023
Radio Ecoshock: Disaster in the Making: Cascading Tipping Points & Permafrost (replay)
Top European scientists warn tipping points could cascade toward absolute climate disaster. Prof. Tim Lenton from U of Exeter. Permafrost expert Susan Natali from Woods Hole explains CO2 pouring out from the WINTER Arctic.
08.16.2023
Radio Ecoshock: ENJOY YOURSELF (It’s Later Than You Think) (replay)
Should we just give up and party like there’s no tomorrow? Scientist James Lovelock, inventor of Gaia, says “yes”. Former NASA scientist James Hansen says “no”. Loaded with clips including Obama’s science man John Holdren, deep greener Derrick Jensen, country...
08.09.2023
Radio Ecoshock: AMOC: Will Atlantic Current Stop Soon – Freezing Europe?
Are you ready for real disaster news? If the warming currents in the North Atlantic weaken or collapse, Ireland, England, and North Europe will become stormy and cold, even as the world warms. A collapse of the ocean system known...
08.02.2023
Radio Ecoshock: The Heat Will Kill You First
As world heat records fall, on land and sea, best-selling author Jeff Goodell on his book: “The Heat Will Kill You First”. Greenland is hot and extra rainy, dumping more water into the sea. Glaciologist Jason Box reports. But Greenland...
07.27.2023
Radio Ecoshock: Post Growth and Degrowth (replay)
UK, Professor Tim Jackson on his book “Post Growth: Life After Capitalism”. Lorenz Keysser from ETH Zurich takes it further: planned decline coupled with increasing well-being – degrowth. Stock markets, banks, every business – everybody wants to grow more and...
07.19.2023
Radio Ecoshock: The Heat & The Horror – Upon Us Now
The first global heat wave, across the Northern Hemisphere, land and sea, just happened in July 2023. After the hottest June ever, we burned through four days with the hottest global temperature recorded by humans on this planet. After a...

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The RADIO ECOSHOCK Show episodes:

Radio Ecoshock: Mass Heat Deaths Arrive

Radio Ecoshock: Are You A Climate Survivor?

Radio Ecoshock: Extreme Weather Survivors Speak Out

Radio Ecoshock: Dead Coral & the Metabolism of Capitalism

Radio Ecoshock: Climate Killers Go on Holiday

Radio Ecoshock: Shades of the Future

Radio Ecoshock: Drop The Distractions: Transcontinental Extreme Heat

Radio Ecoshock: Climate Homicide

Radio Ecoshock: O Artificial Savior From the Heat

Radio Ecoshock: Extreme Heat = More Mass Migration (replay)

Radio Ecoshock: Nomad Century & Bad Banks (replay)

Radio Ecoshock: The Coming Monster Heat Waves

Radio Ecoshock: Why So Hot So Fast?

Radio Ecoshock: Climate Sci-Fi Gets Too Real

Radio Ecoshock: Whiplash & Greenlash: Latest Tipping Point News

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

Radio Ecoshock: Broken News

Radio Ecoshock: Why Renewables Cannot Power Your World – Simon Michaux

Radio Ecoshock: 2 Degrees by 2030 and Panic Politics

Radio Ecoshock: Cat 6, Grid Down & the Behavior Crisis

Radio Ecoshock: Climate Cities: Radical Adaptation

Radio Ecoshock: Methane: Monster Or Myth?

Radio Ecoshock: UNREPORTED: Amazon Emergency & Destabilized Atmosphere

Radio Ecoshock: Spectacle, Necrocapitalism, & Methane

Radio Ecoshock: Avoiding the Doom Loop in the Age of Crisis (replay)

Radio Ecoshock: Why Renewables Cannot Power Your World – Simon Michaux

Radio Ecoshock: Dirty Air or Sudden Heat?

Radio Ecoshock: Beat the Soaring Heat

Radio Ecoshock: When Will the Food Riots Come?

Radio Ecoshock: Living Climate Collapse In Real Time

Radio Ecoshock: Dying For Fossil Fuels

Radio Ecoshock: The Plan To Wreck The Atmosphere

Radio Ecoshock: Wealth Supremacy Vs. Climate Doom

Radio Ecoshock: JAMES HANSEN – Super Warming in the Pipeline

Radio Ecoshock: Dangerous Contradiction: “Green New Deal”

Radio Ecoshock: Blinded By The Event Horizon

Radio Ecoshock: Destabilized Weather in an Unstable World

Radio Ecoshock: It Was The Hottest of Times

Radio Ecoshock: Breaking: Smog Forces Climate Changes

Radio Ecoshock: Hippos in London: Rising Methane & “Termination Event”

Radio Ecoshock: Global Super Rain: the new face of climate change

Radio Ecoshock: Extreme Antarctica, Ozone & Heat

Radio Ecoshock: Harsh Climate: Summer of Discontent

Radio Ecoshock: A World on Fire (replay)

Radio Ecoshock: Disaster in the Making: Cascading Tipping Points & Permafrost (replay)

Radio Ecoshock: ENJOY YOURSELF (It’s Later Than You Think) (replay)

Radio Ecoshock: AMOC: Will Atlantic Current Stop Soon – Freezing Europe?

Radio Ecoshock: The Heat Will Kill You First

Radio Ecoshock: Post Growth and Degrowth (replay)

Radio Ecoshock: The Heat & The Horror – Upon Us Now

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