I cover some enviro impacts in this week's show "War Against the Atmosphere" (Radio Ecoshock, broadcast on 108 radio stations in the U.S., Canada, UK, and Australia.)
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The Middle East has become a war against the atmosphere (again). Burning oil facilities, tons of jet fuel, adding it all up with several experts including Patrick Bigger and Neta Crawford. Free blog & radio show
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AS I SAID: This is War Against the Atmosphere!
Three experts on jets, missiles, explosions & military impacts pushing climate change - emissions like a new industrialized country - not reported of course.
Free program w. 3 experts as broadcast on 108 radio stations.
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Climate cost of war: experts Dr. Patrick Bigger, Neta Crawford author “The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War” Giles Trendle, former Managing Director of Al Jazeera on Iran and climate w. author Mark Hertsgaard. Radio Ecoshock preview.
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The international order is broken. Is climate cooperation done for? Pol Science Prof Matthew Hoffmann. But first the biggest climate killer in America: wildfire smoke. Shocking science w. Dr. Chris Callahan. Scientist Sarah Berk: cities getting hotter faster.
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No rules now. Eat your smog, enjoy disasters. Trump killing American climate rules & science. Voices outside: Germany, Canada, UK, France & Democracy Now! Bob Ward & science historian Robert Proctor. Scientist Ben Santer - why he had to leave America. Blog
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I've seen both, from palms in the smog in LA in '71 to heat so intense visual scenes appear to come in waves. Your work seems like the later, to me.
Meltdown Sounds - The Permafrost Pulse. Newest permafrost science Christina Schädel, Woodwell Climate Research Center. Michael Prather good news on nitrous oxide. Global algae is expanding - good or bad? Dr. Brian Barnes U. of South Florida latest science. blog/audio
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Climate Killer: America’s Fatal Oil Grab. Alexis Normand CEO of Greenly on Texas, Venezuela, Greenland ...Canada? Fossil decline - "Fossil energy minimum viable scale". Joshua Lappen & Emily Grubert's new warning in Science magazine. Free blog & audio
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Contrails are real & dangerous to climate. Sweden’s Chalmers U. of Technology, Dr. Daniel Johansson. While thousands died of heat in Europe in 2003, a marine heat wave ripped the North Atlantic. From Germany, Dr. Karl-Michael Werner, Bremerhaven.
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In 15 years, Earth will lose thousands of glaciers every year. "Peak glacier extinction” - Swiss glaciologist Lander Van Tricht. “Gazing into the Flames” - wildfire expert Hamish Clarke. More buildings lost to wildfires in U.S. - Dr. Amanda Carlson. Blog & audio
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The Very Thing That Makes You Rich...
...makes me poor (Ry Cooder)
“Climate change has already made the United States poorer” Arizona Economics Prof. Derek Lemoine. How tailpipe carbon makes acid seas. Tulane chemist Bruce Gibb explains.
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Paywall article. What is study behind this? Please link it.
Now I think not only the Arctic is experiencing "bioclimatic extremes". Mika, could these studies be applied to the sub-tropics or the the whole planet? Could the Arctic be the early warning system of ecologically disturbing extremes planet-wide?
Looking at weird waves of extreme-to-record heat and cold circulating Earth this winter of 25/26, I was wondering if we are seeing something new. How would we know with only the past as guide in a system so variable as weather?
Meet the Evil Twin - Ocean Acidification. New science OA past Planetary Boundary. Retired NOAA Senior Research Scientist Dr. Richard Feely. First an introduction from Biological Oceanographer & Lead Author Dr. Helen Findlay Plymouth Marine Lab. Free audio & blog
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Lost the climate gamble! Now what? Professor James Dyke from @gsiexeter.bsky.social University of Exeter. First, best estimates of what to expect this year and next in the climate casino. Free blog and audio.
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Global warming is not for popular music? Where are voices of ordinary folks suffering? Here we go: 21 songs for this grave new world. Green Music Special 2025.
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Yes, Guy Debord (correct spellling) nailed it. We are in the Spectacle now (required reading & free on Net with a search). Also: "We're All Bozos On This Bus" Firesign Theatre 1971 (album) brings to life the Carnival we now inhabit. All seen when the seeds were sown.
...then knocking down a dozen trees in my village - trees over 80 years old at least. There were reports of the same blast knowing down trees in the Dakotas and elsewhere. A Derecho in December. Today, Ferries to Vancouver Island shut down for high winds. December Derecho?
Jeff is this wind something new? 2 days ago a blast damaged harbor boats & condos in Vancouver, swept over coastal range & continued a few hundred miles inland.
Scientists find a control knob for climate feedbacks in the Southern Ocean. Zach Kaufman, Scripps Institute San Diego & Prof. Richard Williams, U. of Liverpool. The S. Ocean stores most heat & ~half the carbon we add to the atmosphere. Blog, free audio downloads
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Are we ending this civilization? 8 top scientists in the UK Emergency Briefing. Interviews: Prof. Brian Soden: phenomenal heat burst of 2023/24 NOT caused by change in ship pollution. Harvard’s Dr. Cheng He: "Escalated Heatwave Mortality Risk in Sub-Saharan Africa.”
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Expect whiplash. Malte Stuecker: El Nino & La Nina get stronger - changing the N. Atlantic and Indian Oceans. 50,000 Europeans killed by heat in 2023 & again in 2024. Christopher Callahan on heat deaths in Europe. Sandra Yuter: less winter, more heat stress.
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We only see reality imperfectly. We create stories, again imperfectly, to fill in the gaps. Good science reveals aspects of reality. Bacon helped develop the scientific method in part to escape superstition in late Middle Age.
Polar Change - Global Ripples. Scientists Trond Kristiansen & Scott Sugden on great light experiment in Arctic & climate-changing microbes. 3 more scientists from COP30 panel on permafrost thaw. Breaking polar science from Radio Ecoshock. free blog and audio here:
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Cosmic dust hidden history of past sea-ice & crash of Arctic Ocean life. Dr. Frank Pavia, U. of Washington. Then "The normalization of (almost) everything" with UCLA computational cognitive scientist Rachit Dubey. Free blog & audio:
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Some of the concerns you raise come up in this new paper "Intensification of extreme cold events in East Asia in response to global mean sea-level rise". The authors assume equal global rise.
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Then there is the problem of other multiple changes and influences expected in the same time period. Changes in glacier mass, albedo - many things could impact the flow of air, blocking patterns and winds as well. It is harder to trust a forecast based on a single driver like this.
I have concerns about this paper. The authors assume equal sea level rise around the world, but that is far from the case. The mechanics of HOW relatively small increases of ocean surface area lead to large scale wind and blocking changes is not described in the paper (unless I missed it). ...
