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...

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. www.ecoshock.org/2025/12/gree...

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 www.ecoshock.org/2025/12/no-o...

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.” www.ecoshock.org/2025/12/dang...

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. www.ecoshock.org/2025/12/hars...

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: www.ecoshock.org/2025/11/pola...

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: www.ecoshock.org/2025/11/cosm...

Everybody pushing biofuels to save climate. Cian Delaney @transportenvironment.org green alternatives worse than the fossil fuels. Author & researcher Susannah Fisher on new book “SINK OR SWIM: How the World Needs to Adapt to a Changing Climate” Free audio & blog www.ecoshock.org/2025/11/the-...

Thousand Year Storms. Hurricane Melissa w. famous meteorologist John Morales in Miami & hurricane blogger Dr. Jeff Masters. Plus a replay clip from Kerry Emanuel on big storms recorded previously on Ecoshock. Free blog and audio: www.ecoshock.org/2025/11/thou...

Tipping Madness. “The Global Tipping Points Report 2025”. Steven R. Smith, Global Systems Institute on planetary-scale risks. Provocative Swedish intellectual Professor Andreas Malm on new book “The Long Heat”. Free blog & audio: www.ecoshock.org/2025/10/tipp...

Warming & civilization. Dr. Kevin Trenberth talks ocean heating & new science. Oregon State University Professor Peter Clark: "Global mean sea level over the past 4.5 million years" Can we find a rear-view mirror that predicts our future? Free blog & audio: www.ecoshock.org/2025/10/even...

Climate extinction expert Dr. Peter Ward revisited. 41,000 Americans die due to wildfire smoke. As new Global Tipping Points report coming, last year’s chat with Lead Author Dr. Tim Lenton, U. of Exeter UK. Free blog and audio: www.ecoshock.org/2025/10/casi...

Driving around? Dying to get there? Investigative journalist, film-maker David Obst new book “Saving Ourselves from Big Car”. What suddenly kills dolphins & millions of fish at a time? One of THE global experts on algae blooms: Dr. Mark Wells, University of Maine. www.ecoshock.org/2025/10/big-...

3 degrees C of global warming by 2050 possible - German Meteorological Society, German Physical Society & Potsdam Prof Stefan Rahmstorf. Plus “Unexpected decline in ocean carbon sink..." Jens Daniel Müller in Zurich. Radio Ecoshock free blog & audio: www.ecoshock.org/2025/10/acce...

What the oil industry won't tell you: fossil fuel smog is killing almost 100,000 Americans a year. Dr. Karn Vohra on real cost of gas & oil. The ins-and-outs of ozone & warming w. Prof. Bill Collins, U. of Reading + hot state of Pakistan & new song “Hot Nights” www.ecoshock.org/2025/09/from...

Experts and bloggers predict more cold outbreaks as the planet warms - UK scientist Edward Hanna explains. What happened the last time Earth was like this? Welcome to the Mid-Pliocene Warm Period with New Zealand scientist Georgia Grant. Blog/audio ad-free www.ecoshock.org/2025/09/high...

Global drying, Gaia & Abrupt Change. Water loss on land adds to rising seas: global drying with expert Jay Famiglietti. Is this planet a living cooperative? Science journalist Ferris Jabr. Expect abrupt shifts in big systems - Sjoerd Terpstra. Blog/audio www.ecoshock.org/2025/09/glob...

Down at the Bottom of the World. Two experts with strange & shocking discoveries on new emerging Antarctica. Edward Doddridge: abrupt Antarctic sea ice loss. Matt King: planetary-scale shifts in currents, glacier melt and sea level rise. Blog & free audio here. www.ecoshock.org/2025/09/down...

In screen life, we build a digital body. French intellectual Paul Virilio, author of “The Information Bomb” & “The Administration of Fear” is our witness, guest John David Ebert. (replay) Blog/audio: www.ecoshock.org/2025/08/paul... NEW SEASON STARTS NEXT WEEK!

Is it already late? Mike MacCracken Geoengineering Now. Mike speaks with UK videographer and climate journalist Nick Breeze May 2025 YouTube interview. At the end, find other points of view - plus a new song from Radio Ecoshock: “Too Late Times”. www.ecoshock.org/2025/08/is-i...

Hazards of Wildfire Smoke (new). New science reveals what is in that smoke, from heavy metals to exotic chemicals - leading to brain damage & early death. Toxic smoke: analysis and interviews with experts in this special edition of Radio Ecoshock. www.ecoshock.org/2025/08/haza...

Fear, Fire, Floods (New) Extreme heat and heavy rains amplify one another: a new conversation with “Earth systems nerd” Jan Umsonst in Germany. Alex covers breaking science on extremes happening now with audio from David Spratt and Jonathan Gourley. www.ecoshock.org/2025/08/fear...

Are we heading to air-conditioned Hell? Classic 2012 interviews w. Stan Cox author of “Losing Our Cool”. Dr. Guus Velders from Netherlands on AC. Dr. Michael Sivak, University of Michigan on the global growth of air-conditioning. Free blog & audio: www.ecoshock.org/2025/07/the-...

Extreme Weather Survivors Speak Out (replay) Climate-driven extreme weather can suddenly change your life. Hear 8 climate survivors from the U.S.A. & Canada, stormy Louisiana to the Canadian Arctic. We travel to burned out Paradise California and drowned Vermont. www.ecoshock.org/2025/07/extr...

Welcome to Disaster World. Breaking science on deadly heat wave in Europe & flash floods in America. Confirmed: it is climate change. Grantham UK scientists. UCLA expert on extreme rains & flash floods Jesse Norris. Late journalist Ross Gelbspan. Blog/free audio: www.ecoshock.org/2025/07/welc...

The area burned in the Canadian 2025 fire season has hit 5 million ha. Third active fire season in a row that combined has burned 7% of the Canadian forest. Currently we have 346 fires out of control (192 monitored out of control (OC) and 154 OC that are being actioned) so expect the number to rise.

HEAT STORM! How it kills and who (replay) 3 experts on extreme heat: Elizabeth Hanna, Robert Kopp and Jonathan Patz. Deadly heat in EU & U.S. East Coast. But how does heat kill? and who? Compilation from best of Radio Ecoshock. Free audio and blog: www.ecoshock.org/2025/07/heat... Please repost!

Hot & Polluted. Heat domes N, America & Europe! Scientist Michael Mann blames planetary waves. Gabriele Messori, Uppsala U.: combined climate hazards increasing. Daniel Vecellio “Greatly enhanced risk to humans” as humid heat stress strikes billions. Blog/audio: www.ecoshock.org/2025/07/hot-...

Food production drops 25% in heated world. Stephen Long: biotech breakthroughs protect photosynthesis from climate damage. Canadian botanist Sam Yeaman: “Can wild plant adaptations help crops tolerate heat?” Blog & free audio here: tinyurl.com/3884pp7f Repost the show. Need more BlueSky followers!

Wildfire smoke slows warming. Edward Blanchard-Wrigglesworth in Seattle. Extreme drought Solomon Gebrechorkos from Oxford. Potsdam scientist Stefan Rahmstorf on AMOC collapse. New maps of extreme cold in Europe’s future. Plus more on warming acceleration. www.ecoshock.org/2025/06/wild...

Past point of no return for Polar glaciers. Dr. Chris Stokes Durham University UK. Canadian fire expert Michael Flannigan on the latest giant outbreaks in the North. Smoke covering Canada, US New York to Georgia - reaching Greece and Ireland. Blog/audio www.ecoshock.org/2025/06/when...

Heat Surge - is it termination shock? Best answers from: Michael Mann, James Hansen, Gavin Schmidt, David Victor, Leon Simons, George Tselioudis & YangYang Xu Free blog/audio www.ecoshock.org/2025/05/heat...

Cope & cool down. Best ways to cool cities with Canadian scientist Scott Krayenhoff. When crops go bad, society can go off the rails. Long-time expert David Lobell on climate and crop damage. Blog, free audio www.ecoshock.org/2025/05/cope...

Rebel Against the Crash (replay). Civilization heading into climate meltdown. In a rare radio interview, Dr. Jem Bendell explains “Deep Adaptation”. Skeena Rathor, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion. Blog & free audio www.ecoshock.org/2025/05/rebe...

BLACK START John Timmer Ars Technica: why they can't just switch the power back on. On-the-ground reporting from the blackout in Spain and Portugal plus world expert on Deep Time Professor Robert Spicer - a warning there too? Radio Ecoshock. soundcloud.com/radioecoshoc...

Fear and Loathing in the Atmosphere. Prof. Antonio Lazcano: repression of science in the U.S. & Latin America. Followed by latest news. Naomi Klein asks “Which side are you on?” & sea level expert Robert Kopp. Sounding the General Alarm is not alarmism. free blog & audio tinyurl.com/mrxacxup

Slashing Science In the Heat. CA climate scientist Weather West blogger Daniel Swain covers the latest U.S. purge of weather and climate. How much heat before lasting damage kicks in? From Harvard Dr. Robert Meade: how heat kills. Blog and free audio: www.ecoshock.org/2025/04/slas...

Murder in Broad Daylight. Closing down climate in NASA and NOAA, Paul Voosen, American Academy AAAS. The voice of Canadian weather & science David Phillips + Arjit Varki on denial as basic function in human minds. Free blog & audio here www.ecoshock.org/2025/04/murd... Please re-post!

URGENT PLANET & MANUFACTURED FRIGHT Water sucked out of land & dumped into rising seas; emissions industrialize the ocean; conflict & heat - Luis Samaniego, Potsdam, David Kroodsma, Oakland & Manfred Lenzen, Sydney. Radio Ecoshock on 107 stations... Blog & free audio www.ecoshock.org/2025/04/urge...

"Rotten at the Top" Short tune for our times. (2 min) - Try it and pass it on. Creative Commons (free for non-profit use). soundcloud.com/radioecoshoc...

Rotten at the Top. Climate & security analyst Genevieve Guenther bsky.app/profile/doct... new book “Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It". Climate scientist Paul Beckwith: turbocharged extreme weather. Blog & audio www.ecoshock.org/2025/04/rott...

Explore declining carbon capture by plants with world recognized expert Dr. Pep Canadell, CISRO Australia & Global Carbon Project. Computer guru and security expert Richard Power: global warming is more serious threat than terrorism. Free blog & audio: www.ecoshock.org/2025/03/talk...

Expect more super-storms, wildfires, & closed down rescue. Disaster management specialist Dr. Samantha Montano. “Stand Up for Science” rally - speeches by Bill Nye the Science Guy & Michael Mann, famous climate scientist. News from the real world. Blog/audio: www.ecoshock.org/2025/03/disa...

Best friends = enemies. Enemies = friends. Business is great/awful. Whiplash - time of self-inflicted wounds. Dana R. Fisher, expert in social action and author of “Saving Ourselves” + senior Australian scientist David Karoly with frank talk Down-Under. www.ecoshock.org/2025/03/whip...

Data Centers - Dark Footprint of the Cloud. Inside core of the new bubble: data centers. Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate “The Cloud Is Material: On the Environmental Impacts of Computation and Data Storage.” Plus toxic waste rushed from LA Angeles fires. www.ecoshock.org/2025/03/data...

Silencing Science. I’d like to report a murder. Trump strangles American climate science. We track the worst with Romany Webb from the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, and reporter Bob Berwyn from Inside Climate News. Blog free audio www.ecoshock.org/2025/02/sile...

The Real Is Just Outside. Climate activist/author Mike Tidwell: the year of despair in his new book. Conservation biologist Thor Hanson: “Close to Home - the Wonders of Nature Just Outside Your Door”. Blog & free audio: www.ecoshock.org/2025/02/the-...

TikToxification Brain-damaging trends are dumbing down the population. “TikTokfication” - scientist “Mr. White Orange”. Unique talk on social media, culture, and our brains. Please repost! Let others know about Radio Ecoshock. Blog and free audio here: www.ecoshock.org/2025/02/tikt...

Radical Uncertainty. U of Bristol scientist Dann Mitchell: cumulative risks no one is counting. Can disasters change minds even in right-leaning people? Marketing expert Rafay Siddiqui. Answering Polycrisis: what Prof. Adam Tooze tells the rich. www.ecoshock.org/2025/02/radi...

How to Defuse A Climate Bomb. German group Urgewald blows up "coal is declining" myth, Heffa Schucking. Ben Ridell-Young from CIRES: last abrupt climate shift. French economist Timothée Parrique says “Slow down or perish.” Blog & free listen: www.ecoshock.org/2025/01/how-...