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As broadcast on 108 non-profit radio stations, Alex Smith hosts earth scientists, authors and experts. Weekly program available as podcast, find all at web site
Urgent Planet & Manufactured Fright (replay) 3 guests: Luis Samaniego in Potsdam, David Kroodsma in Oakland, and Manfred Lenzen in Sydney. Free blog & audio, as broadcast on 108 non-profit radio stations in U.S., UK, Canada, and Australia. www.ecoshock.org/2026/08/urge...
German scientist Anders Levermann warns we are entering a time of climate free-fall (new). As Iran war cooks, Dr. Patrick Bigger on climate costs of war (replay). www.ecoshock.org/2026/07/clim...
Hot And Polluted Episodes (replay) Scientist Michael Mann blames planetary waves. Gabriele Messori, Uppsala U. - combined climate hazards increasing. Dr. Daniel Vecellio “Greatly enhanced risk to humans”. Free blog/downloads here: www.ecoshock.org/2026/07/hot-...
HEAT STORM! How it kills and who. Three experts on Extreme Heat: Elizabeth Hanna, Robert Kopp & Jonathan Patz. Need-to-know compilation - best of Radio Ecoshock (replay). www.ecoshock.org/2026/07/heat...
Meteorologist Jeff Bernadelli - heatwaves Europe & America. Coral Salvador: excess heat mean more premature births. Heat reporting from Mark Hertsgaard &Jeff Goodell. Dr. J. Mijin Cha - a climate plan for America’s biggest coal mining. www.ecoshock.org/2026/07/we-t...
Rampant heat waves in Europe - worse to come. Dr. Laura Sanchez-Gutierrez in the Netherlands with just in-time science. Dr. Dmitri Kalashnikov in California - growing heat fuels record burn-off in the American West. Free blog and audio: www.ecoshock.org/2026/07/craz...
Dr. Alice Carter-Champion Royal Holloway surprising deep past story with news for today. Permafrost thaw could release more greenhouse gases than humans. From Institut Pierre Simon Laplace in France, world's most cited climate scientist Dr. Philippe Ciais returns www.ecoshock.org/2026/06/unst...
Planet-warming gases left out of official reports - indirect Greenhouse Gases Dr. Ilissa Ocko. “Climate Wayfinding" Drawdown author and climate trainer Dr. Katherine Wilkinson. Scientist/activist Peter Kalmus: Why NASA finally fired me. New song "Creeping Crisis". www.ecoshock.org/2026/06/cree...
Will we have yet another record fire year? From VU Amsterdam, Max van Gerrevink: are super-fires heating or cooling the planet? Prof. Ben de Foy of Saint Louis U fire>ozone that burns lungs & wrecks air cleanup gains. Poking the inferno. Free blog & audio www.ecoshock.org/2026/06/fire...
Godzilla Heat: London, Moscow, Delhi. Plus Ben Poulter of Spark: methane emissions from wetlands passes human emissions & getting stronger. Another climate emergency. Free blog and audio: www.ecoshock.org/2026/06/godz...
Retreat from New Orleans! Professor Torbjörn Törnqvist, University of Tulane finds it's inevitable so start now. Carbon dioxide cooling the Stratosphere. Lamont-Dorherty scientist Sean Cohen explains. & watch for compound climate disasters. Free blog & audio: www.ecoshock.org/2026/05/acut...
El Nino wildfires & Amazon tipping. El Nino 2023, Canada wildfire carbon = emissions from India - a world problem. Expert Michael Flannigan. Amazon Godfather of rainforest science. Dr. Carlos Nobre: the awful Amazon tipping point. Free here www.ecoshock.org/2026/05/el-n...
The new stage is climate extreme. Scientist Paul Beckwith - new science - failing food to wild weather. Can forecasting keep up? Columbia University, Dr. Jeffrey Shrader asked leading professionals. Radio Ecoshock reporting back from the edge. Free blog & audio www.ecoshock.org/2026/04/war-...
Crazy food prices? - community food growing! Start your neighborhood on Victory Gardens. Speech by Lamanda Joy to Great Lakes Bioneers tells you how. First broadcast 2012. Free audio & blog www.ecoshock.org/2026/04/craz... Broadcast on 108 radio stations, US, Canada, UK, Australia Please repost
Keep a stock of cheap food on hand, just in case - on a small budget! Should you move - or stay? The late Dr. Norman Myers of Oxford on eco-migration. Replay from Ecoshock 2009: financial crash, Peak Oil, and climate disruption - what you can do. Free blog audio: www.ecoshock.org/2026/04/life...
Why was the American West hotter than anyone’s seen, hotter than even Doomers believed possible? Explore historic March heat with weather-master, meteorologist @drjeffmasters.bsky.social and large systems specialist Deirdre Des Jardins. Blog and free .mp3 download www.ecoshock.org/2026/04/when...
RADIO ECOSHOCK Weird record-smashing heat dome in W. U.S.: panel of pro journalists, hot reporting with @coveringclimatenow.org Then Dr. Thomas Gasser takes us into the long future as nature’s greenhouse continues to emerge. Free blog and audio: www.ecoshock.org/2026/04/high...
Dr. Kevin Trenberth: ocean heat, atmosphere, crazy weather. Dr. Suzana Camargo says hurricanes/cyclones far more than passing storms. Forces shaping your life. Free blog & audio www.ecoshock.org/2026/03/your...
Could Strait of Hormuz & production destruction help save us from climate change? The awful bright side of crazy war - or is it? + 2 scientists with unseen stories of climate change (Greenland, global sea life) Free blog + audio www.ecoshock.org/2026/03/the-...
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 www.ecoshock.org/2026/03/war-...
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. www.ecoshock.net/downloads/ES...
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. www.ecoshock.org/2026/03/smok...
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 www.ecoshock.org/2026/02/kill...
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 www.ecoshock.org/2026/02/melt...
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 www.ecoshock.org/2026/02/clim...
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. Free blog & audio www.ecoshock.org/2026/01/cont...
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 www.ecoshock.org/2026/01/glac...
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. Blog and free audio www.ecoshock.org/2026/01/the-...
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 www.ecoshock.org/2026/01/meet...
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. www.ecoshock.org/2025/12/lost...