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PEAK OIL AND THE MEDIA
Experts predict Mexico, America's number 3 oil producer, will run out of oil in just 7 years. OPEC producers have been lying about their reserves for years. The world is starting new subterranean military tensions - or outright wars - just to keep our Hummers humming.Our whole life depends upon oil based fertilizers, oil based plastics, oil based medicines. The whole world wants to cache in on fossil energy supplies, just as supplies are getting harder to find, more expensive to produce.Now gas ...

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[ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:32:19 -0500 ]


UK CLIMATE ACTION
Thousands gather in Britain's climate camp against coal; 3 protests, police over-reaction.Is it "Green Stalinism" versus decentralized power? That is a recurring theme between those calling for big government action - and the anarchists who believe the government poisons everything it touches.Quotes from George Monbiot, and music from the camp.Plus a good interview on getting the public to accept alternative clean power. Will a windmill really blot out the landscape? Or is it better to accept c...

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[ Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:23:21 -0500 ]


Climate Change Impacts on America
Ecoshock Show 080815Top IPCC organizer & U of Arizona Professor Jonathan Overpeck speech at Washington U. given on April 1st, 2008.After updating the world climate report, Overpeck predicts climate impacts on North America.His focus, on the two worst climate problems for America:1. Rising seas. More than half of Americans live within 50 miles of the sea coast. Many American cities, like New York, and States, like Florida, may be flooded by rising seas (plus storm surges) within the experienc...

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[ Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:57:02 -0500 ]


Methane Burps & Tele-Everything
Ecoshock Show 080808Guest host KMO from C-Realm podcast interviews David M. Bushnell, Chief Scientist from NASA Langley Research Center.Lots of doom, but really good solutions too.Thanks to KMO for sharing this rare interview.1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MBProduction Notes: 30 second music bed for station ID at 33 min...

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[ Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:43:39 -0500 ]


ENDLESS SUMMER
Ecoshock Show 080801Surf is up and the heat is on.We begin with a review of the UK climate activist scene. Hear a representative of "Rising Tide" describe British climate protests, including boarding coal trains headed for a massive polluting power station. Courtesy of RiseUp! Radio - a community program from Nottingham England.We also hear a short clip from a new/old climate radio program coming out of London, called "The Two Degrees Show".Phil England has been doing this program for a couple ...

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[ Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:46:11 -0500 ]


Coping With Climate Change
Ecoshock Show 080725How can we face it? 2 interviews: Pulitzer prize winner Catherine Ellison, and climate/nuclear historian Spencer Weart.Catherine Ellison is one of America's top reporters. She caught me attention again when she wrote about the difficulty of telling kids about climate change. What should we tell them? What should we tell ourselves. We discuss that, and also a bit on her earlier book "The Mommy Brain" - on how giving birth and raising children actually stimulated parts of t...

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[ Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:11:16 -0500 ]


CHANGE OR BURN The Australian Experience
Ecoshock Show 080718Speech by top climate/economic adviser to new Australian government, Prof. Ross Garnaut. His report is an update of the famous Stern Report in the UK - with even better accounting for China and all Asia. Professor Garnaut was the Australian Ambassador to China, and knows places like Indonesia well. So his view is from a developed country, but knowing the huge growth and challenges happening in Asia - which may well tip the climate of the world.I think Garnaut's report will...

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[ Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:49:18 -0500 ]


FIRESTORM - Carbon Rising
Ecoshock Show 080711We begin with a first hand report from climate front-line - the California fires, with Maria Gilardin. Maria is the host of the TUC radio program, originating from San Francisco. This time she is sending out last emails, from her straw bail house, surrounded by four major fires in Mendicino County, California.Although Maria has produced some excellent programs on climate change, including interviews with scientists like James Hansen of NASA, perhaps she never expected to be...

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[ Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:30:24 -0500 ]


A WARNING FROM THE PAST
This week's Radio Ecoshock broadcast is about past greenhouse worlds, quick climate shifts, and mass extinctions caused by changes to the atmosphere.Dr. Andrew Glikson studies comet/asteroid impacts, volcanoes, and past climates. He's been doing it for 40 years.While studying the oldest record of life on Earth, in the Australian outback, Glikson found a relationship between comet or asteroid impacts and the generation of living things. We do not yet know whether life forms (such as bacteria) ...

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[ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:19:19 -0500 ]


HANSEN: CLIMATE CRIMINALS
NASA scientist James Hansen shakes up Capitol Hill (and the media) with explosive testimony to the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Climate Change. For one thing, he thinks oil industry executives who purposely (and secretly) fund groups to confuse the public about climate science – should be charged with crimes against humanity. Here are the links to supplement this week’s Radio Ecoshock show: James Hansen Testimony to Select Committee (June 23, 2008) as a .pdf file.Tit...

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[ Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:45:10 -0500 ]


COLLAPSE & CLIMATE CRISIS
Dmitry Orlov interview. Author of Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects." Orlov compares end of Soviet & American empires.His advice for Presidential candidates, as oil era ends is priceless. Hear about "The Collapse Party" platform....We run a clip from the Minneapolis National Conference on Media Reform (Professor Lawrence Lessig of Stanford on how media sows doubt on global warming, which doesn't exist in climate science...) Then I reference two hours of key spe...

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[ Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:32:53 -0500 ]


Re Send of Building Sanity, Passivhaus Workshop
Hi folks!Sorry, but last week's podcast send was incomplete. You didn't get the full show. So here is a re-send - the workshop on how to save 90% on building energy costs (and greenhouse gases) is too important to miss.That was the Radio Ecoshock show for June 13th, 2008.Won't happen again.Alex....

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[ Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:12:16 -0500 ]


BUILDING SANITY - PASSIVHAUS WORKSHOP
A follow up to last week's program "Building Madness - Constructing Climate Change"This week: a real solution to making our buildings way more efficient. Called "Passivhaus" in Germany, the technique really means much more than "house" - but all buildings.This week we present an exclusive one hour workshop on super-low energy houses, office & municipal buildings with Dr. Guido Wimmers. His company web site at eqcanada.comGuido Wimmers is from Austria, where he studied and designed super low ...

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[ Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:48:40 -0500 ]


BUILDING MADNESS Constructing Climate Change
QUICK GUIDE AND LINKS - RADIO ECOSHOCK PROGRAM June 6, 2008 Voices on this program: ANTHONY PERLE Simon Fraser University Urban Studies Program, Co-author of "Transport Revolution" Download that book launch speech Here. Download 20 minute presentation at "Our Transportation Future" 080522 Here. RICHARD REGISTER Clip from "A Sustainable World" on KCSB radio, in Santa Barbara. Download full interview Here. LARRY FRANK J. Armand Bombardier Chairholder in Sustainable Trans...

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[ Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:57:20 -0500 ]


SAFE CLIMATE OR ENDLESS WAR?
Those are the choices.CONNECTIONS FOR THIS WEEK'S RADIO ECOSHOCK SHOWWeek of May 30th, 2008Guest: Michael T. Klare (new book "Rising Powers, Shrinking World")Listen to the Ecoshock Klare interview here.(http://www.ecoshock.org/downloads/nuclear/ES_Klare_RisingPowers_LoFi.mp3)Read his blog at http://www.tomdispatch.comSpace For Peace activist Bruce GagnonListen to the Gagnon interview separately here.www.ecoshock.org/downloads/nuclear/ES_Gagnon_080521_LoFi.mp3 His web site is http://space4peace.o...

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[ Thu, 29 May 2008 13:47:31 -0500 ]


TOO HOT TO HANDLE!
Radio Ecoshock Show script 080523 "TOO HOT TO HANDLE"[quick opening clip from George Michael "Time to Pray"]Yes, the wounded skies above, say it's much too late.Pop back a few anti-depressants. This is Radio Ecoshock, I'm Alex SmithDo we have still have time? Pop star George Michael asked the millions watching the finale of American Idol 2008. He sang of the time of guilty men, in front of a giant screen image of a red and molten world.That was almost as close as this TV parade of geezer rock ...

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[ Thu, 22 May 2008 16:13:22 -0500 ]


Notice to Subscribers: change in your podcast
HiThis is Alex Smith, your host on Radio Ecoshock. I havean important message for my beloved podcast subscribers.You may have noticed that the most recent program for May 16th, "Crisis in Confidence" arrived in the "Lo-Fi" format. That is more compressed - a much smaller file at 14 megabytes (instead of 56). It arrives on your computer faster, and takes up less space for those who collect the programs on their hard drives.By popular demand,I have switched this podcast to the smaller Lo-Fi for...

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[ Sat, 17 May 2008 12:43:22 -0500 ]


CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE
Is it just me... or is the world falling apart?The Radio Ecoshock Show 080516Worried? Need a hole to hide in?All through Western history, the human herd has reached panic points. Civilization was expected to end. And sometimes it did.In this program, we'll take the bullet train through global defrosting, climate adaptation, rogue capitalism, economic crash, selling out, capital flight, and the food crisis.You will hear samples from a conference call with world food expertLester Brown, and cli...

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[ Fri, 16 May 2008 12:34:42 -0500 ]


IF YOU LOVE THIS PLANET
Helen Caldicott's new broadcast/podcast program #1.Hands up everyone who wants to hear about nuke reactor safety.....Nobody?Perfect. That's just the way the nuclear industry wants it - as they plan a new "renaissance" of reactor construction as a "solution" to climate change. Really, the same big corporations want the government to back and insure their risky plans to rake in billions of bucks.George Bush loves the plan. So does the military. Republican candidate John McCain just told nutty ...

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[ Thu, 08 May 2008 16:12:47 -0500 ]


Radio For Troubled Times
A new survey by worldpublicopinion.org shows that the majority of people in the world think oil is running out. They want their governments to find new energy supplies. Americans agree we have passed Peak Oil - but they are the only public to feel their government is operating on the wrong assumptions.One big bad assumption: biofuels are the way to energy independence. We investigate news reports from all over the world, connecting biofuels to the new world food crisis. Even U.S. sources say th...

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[ Thu, 01 May 2008 14:36:20 -0500 ]


HIGHWAY TO HELL: How Smog Kills
Polluted cities kills hundreds of thousands. Under-reported plague from vehicle emissions. 2 interviews.We are honored to have as a guest on this weeks' show: Dr. Joel Schwartz, Harvard's top expert on air pollution. I discuss Dr. Schwartz' testimony to Congress in late 2007. His presentation is still available on the Net, as a .pdf file. It is on Carbon Soot and Global Warming.Schwartz presents one of the two most scary maps I have ever seen. (Number one was the map showing the new world ...

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[ Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:14:29 -0500 ]


ADDICTED TO OIL
Even President George Bush admits we are addicted to oil. But what does that really mean?THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ADDICTIONDr. Bruce Alexander, a professor emeritus at Simon Fraser University in Canada, is a pioneer researching addiction. His ideas are so unconventional, he won the Stirling Prize for controversy. Bruce Alexander is currently writing a book titled "The Globalization of Addiction: A Study in the Poverty of the Spirit." - coming out this summer."Addiction is a democratic disease, affec...

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[ Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:43:28 -0500 ]


SOLAR TO SAVE US
Calif. scientist Nate Lewis says CO2 is rising rapidly - and why only Solar can power the Earth.This includes Repodcast clip from ABC National's "In Conversation" with Robyn Williams. Robyn finds Nate frustrated with the gush of greenhouse gases in the last few years. We are going the wrong way, while conferences conference, politicians talk, and consumers take teeny tiny green steps.That leads to disaster, but scientist Lewis quickly knocks out the nuclear option. By his calculation, we would h...

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[ Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:33:37 -0500 ]


Climate: Who If Not Us?
In this show: a new speech by Thomas Homer-Dixon, author of "Ingenuity Gap" and "Updside of Down" Toronto 080320.Homer-Dixon says a carbon surge threatens the world, breaking IPCC predictions. He outlines the latest science, and makes an odd suggestion of how the Internet might help save us.This is one of the most powerful speeches I have heard this year. It was recorded by John-Paul Warren of Toronto - an example of the kind of recording and exchange that is pushing exchange of new climate kno...

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[ Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:20:56 -0500 ]


PEAK OIL = TRANSPORTATION REVOLUTION
This week's program begins with a quick review of planet-shaking news.Then, we go to the book launch of "Transportation Revolutions: Moving People and Freight Without Oil"The authors are Richard Gilbert & Anthony Perl. I recorded that on March 18th, in Vancouver, Canada.You get the speech by Richard Gilbert, plus some of the Q and A.Both the talk, and the book, are loaded with real facts and figures on future transpo, and how to get there, sustainably. Finally, some answers. Are you ready...

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[ Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:39:45 -0500 ]


Wall Street & the Climate Crash
This week we dig into the Wall Street Mess. Are we headed into the next Great Depression? We'll talk to a Finance Campaigner at the Rainforest Action Network, to see how they fought some big bankers, and won. That interview with Matt Leonard of RAN is only available in the audio program.But first, Wall Street needs to dig themselves out with a new bubble scam. Why not use our concern about climate change. If a new American Administration takes on carbon emissions, they may hand out billion...

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[ Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:59:18 -0500 ]


Dirty Coal, Dirty Politics, Wasted World
Before I launch into the script for this week's Radio Ecoshock show, I want to get the key information into your hands. Here is new science, just published in the March 7th, Geophysical Letters scientific journal, explained by Ken Caldeira, senior scientist of the Carnegie Institute. Apparently, every bit of CO2 we emit eventually warms the atmosphere for thousands of years. Read on.KEY QUOTES FROM AN INTERVIEW WITH KEN CALDEIRA, Senior Scientist, Carnegie Institute, from the Mebourne 3CR rad...

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[ Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:41:08 -0500 ]


Mark Jaccard: 20 Years of Climate Failure
Why have all the political climate plans failed so badly? Targets are set, with big announcements, and yet greenhouse gas emissions just keep going up, and up.Canada's Professor Mark Jaccard has developed scientific models, to study how governments cope with the climate challenge. His results are solid, and controversial.Just knowing about the climate threat is obviously not enough. As consumers, we know, but just keep polluting. Some politicians mean well, but we can't seem to change our ca...

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[ Sun, 09 Mar 2008 14:30:26 -0500 ]


Our Dying Oceans - New Science
Latest awful science on climate's impact: dead zones, acidification, extinctions. Forget Obamamania and gowns on the red carpet - oh, by the way, the oceans are dying.This show begins with clips from the 1973 classic "Soylent Green". The usual warnings apply: people with depression, cynicism, skepticism, or despair listen at their own risk.3 original interviews by Alex Smith, of top scientists, with news from the Boston meeting of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science. Then we c...

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[ Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:47:50 -0600 ]


The Drying of the West & More (Ecoshock 080222)
This is Radio Ecoshock. I'm your host, Alex Smith.Our audio show begins with a 21 minute interview with Robert Kunzig, author of "The Drying of the West" in the February issue of National Geographic. A great science writer and researcher, Robert Kunzig has discovered a wealth of science showing the American South West is entering into a period of prolonged drought.The whole Colorado River system, and the massive population who depend upon it (from Denver to Los Angeles) are imperiled. The rains...

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[ Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:25:31 -0600 ]

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