Podcasts about hothouse earth

Richard Miller is an acclaimed author known for his gripping and thrilling novels. Born with a vivid imagination and a passion for storytelling, Miller has captivated readers with his latest masterpiece, "The Sigsbee Deep." Published in 2023, this riveting tale takes readers on a heart-pounding journey through a post-apocalyptic world where survival and ingenuity are the keys to staying alive."The Sigsbee Deep" is set in a not-too-distant future, after years of climate science denial and environmental neglect have plunged the Earth into a state of extreme turmoil. By 2049, the planet has succumbed to the treacherous conditions of "Hothouse Earth." In the midst of this chaos, the Pinellas Peninsula breaks away from mainland Florida, leaving its inhabitants stranded on a newly formed island in the Gulf of Mexico.At the center of this captivating story is Mays Jackson, a determined and resourceful man who finds himself thrust into the role of protector for his two children and their family salvage yard, aptly named "Jackson's Salvage Yard." As the residents of Pinellas County grapple with the sudden separation from the mainland and the impending dangers of their surroundings, Mays becomes an invaluable member of the community. His inventive mind proves crucial in devising solutions for agriculture, water collection, and harnessing wind power to sustain life on the island.However, Mays' world takes a drastic turn when he learns from retired USN captain, Martin Ullman, that the island is gradually sliding towards the perilous Sigsbee Deep—a harrowing abyss 17,000 feet deep in the heart of the Gulf. Realizing the urgency of the situation, Mays understands that escape is the only option to ensure the safety of his loved ones and the island's inhabitants.Yet, a formidable obstacle stands in Mays' path—the malevolent presence of Hoss Krule and his dangerous family of thieves and killers. Aware of their predatory nature, Mays must proceed with caution, concealing his intentions to evade their watchful eyes. Fueled by his determination and ingenuity, Mays embarks on a mission to build a unique 24-foot boat armed with three-foot spikes capable of fending off the deadly Krakefish infesting the Gulf.While the spiked boat proves successful in fending off the Krakefish, Mays remains haunted by the possibility of its overturning in the treacherous waters. Desperate to find a more secure means of transportation, Mays unleashes his creative genius and constructs a steel submarine from salvaged materials—a vessel impervious to the Krakefish's destructive jaws. With his children, friends, and the fate of the island resting on his shoulders, Mays ventures into the abyssal depths of the Gulf, determined to reach his wife in Louisiana.Unbeknownst to Mays, Krule discovers his plans and seeks to seize the submarine for his own sinister purposes. What follows is a gripping chase and a battle at sea, as Krule relentlessly pursues Mays' submarine with his spiked boat, intent on sinking it. Faced with impending danger, Mays unleashes the submarine's armed torpedoes, engaging in a fierce undersea battle against a colossal Krake determined to destroy them, spikes or not."The Sigsbee Deep" is a captivating and exhilarating novel that showcases Richard Miller's mastery of suspense and his ability to immerse readers in a world filled with danger, ingenuity, and the indomitable human spirit. Through the eyes of Mays Jackson, readers witness the triumph of human resilience in the face of overwhelming odds, underscoring the power of determination and resourcefulness in the fight for survival. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You are living on a planet that is 1.1°C hotter than 100 years ago. By 2100, your future family members could be living in a 3°C world. This means mass deaths from extreme heat. Failing agriculture and food scarcity. Lack of drinkable water. Mass climate migration. Cities underwater. Civil unrest, and other dangers that you may not have even thought about. It's not IF these things will happen, it's how soon and how bad it will get. Buckle up.In this episode, we look at the path we are currently on and attempt to illustrate what daily life could be like as the earth warms to 3°C. We explore where we might adapt and where adaptation could be impossible. With our four guests, we look at just how dependent we are on natural systems and talk about what will happen as these systems break down. We explore the changes that are already happening in food production and what we will have to do as temperatures rise and weather patterns shift, and speak to how the climate crisis is going to change myriad other aspects of our lives on Earth. Our guests are some of the top scientists and economists who have studied these issues for decades, written sections of IPCC reports, and books, and compiled meta-studies of existing literature. Each one echoes the same message - Life at 3°C is very, very bad: but that doesn't mean it's inevitable. While there is still time to prevent further danger, the window is closing.In this episode, our guests include: Dr. Bill McGuire, Emeritus Professor of Geophysical & Climate Hazards at University College London, author of several books including Hothouse Earth.Dr. Camielle Paramsean, Professor at CNRS (SETE - Experimental and Theoretical Ecology)Dr. Edmond Totin, Research Scientist at ICRISATDr. Peter Howard, Economic Fellow at Institute for Policy IntegrityResources: Hothouse Earth (Bill McGuire)Ministry for the Future (Kim Stanley Robinson)The Sixth Extinction (Elizabeth Kolbert)Special Report: Global Warming of 1.5C (IPCC)Extreme Heat Will Change Us (New York Times)UN Emissions Gap Report 2022 covers how policies currently in place point to a 2.8°C temperature rise by the end of the century.Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (National Weather Service)IPCC 6th Assessment Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability - Authors Camille Parmesan (Chapter 2: Terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems and their services), Edmond Totin (Chapter 9:...

Professor Bill McGuire (pictured) wrote "Hothouse Earth" and was kind enough to have a chat with Climate Conversations. "Greens showdown with gas sector threatens Labor's climate reforms". "UAE to launch Cop28 presidency with oil boss tipped for leading role"; "The past eight years were the hottest on record, despite La Nina"; "Cannon-Brookes takes swipe at Forrest, commits to rebuilding Sun Cable"; "Giant solar farm project in doubt after disagreement between Mike Cannon-Brookes and Andrew Forrest"; "Project Drawdown: A Cautious Case for Climate Optimism"; "U.S. Carbon Emissions Grew in 2022"; "Four ways winter heatwaves affect humans and nature"; "World's large dams could lose quarter of capacity by 2050, says UN"; "Climate change and extreme weather events have doctors worried". --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robert-mclean/message

Professor Bill McGuire rattled a few cages when he published "Hothouse Earth" and has now written an opinion piece in The Guardian: "The big takeaway from Cop27? These climate conferences just aren't working". "Analysis: Australia's climate policies don't match its big talk at COP27". "It's time to add climate change and net-zero emissions to the RBA's top 3 economic goals". "Long-duration storage firm Energy Vault pivots to short-term batteries". "What planting tomatoes shows us about climate change". "How electric vehicles will change cities". "Chefs, doctors and real estate developers among new coalition calling to rid kitchens of gas cooking". "‘We couldn't fail them': how Pakistan's floods spurred fight at Cop for loss and damage fund". "University College, London". --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/robert-mclean/message

Bill McGuire is a Professor Emeritus of Geophysical and Climate Hazards at University College London, and a writer, who is regularly published in The Guardian, The Times, and The Observer. He is the author of many books, notably the newest, Hothouse Earth - an inhabitants guide, which is a look towards the future of our planet.      In this podcast we discuss: The impact of rising sea levels on the earth's crust, volcanos, coastal cities, and marine life Humanity's downward spiral due to the climate crisis   Capitalism and climate change And at the end, I chat about how I'm trying not to be sad all the time about what the future is looking likely to hold.    Support for the podcast   I'm an independent podcaster, which is a fancy way of saying no one pays me a regular wage. And, to level with you, that is terrifying- all of the time. So, if you like what I do and want me to keep doing it please support the show in one of the following ways.   - Share the podcast with a friend, or review the podcast.    - Make a one-off donation with BuyMeACoffee   I work with a couple of great companies who have discounts arranged for A Need To Read listeners, they're listed below. The discounts (BH) + freebies (AG) will already be applied when you click the link.    - Go to Therapy and get 10% off your first month with BetterHelp, who sponsor the show   - Get your nutrition covered with the all-in-one AG1 shake from Athletic Greens, who also sponsor the show.    - You can also give me feedback/comments/validation by emailing me: hello (at) aneedtoread.co.uk  

What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman speaks with climate scientist Bill McGuire about the new book Hothouse Earth. The post Bill McGuire #1058 appeared first on Paul Samuel Dolman.

In this ClimateGenn episode, I am speaking to Dr Levke Caesar about the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, about what would happen if this vital piece of the climate system either slowed dramatically or even shut down altogether. [Visit https://genn.cc for more information on ClimateGenn and support this channel via https://patreon.com/genncc ] To date the models have been poor anticipators of the speed of localised climate changes. Levke gives an insightful and sincere perspective on the importance of the AMOC as a critical piece of the climate system jigsaw. In the next episode, we stay in the oceans and speak with Dr Shaun Fitzgerald, Director of the Centre for Climate Repair in Cambridge, about the collaborative effort they are involved with to develop kelp seaweed for both carbon sequestration and the benefit of marine ecosystems and more. Subscribers via Patreon can also access another episode with Professor Bill McGuire discussing his new book Hothouse Earth and, very shortly, a new interview from my visit to the Monaco Scientific Centre to interview Dr Nathalie Hilmi about the centre's work in ocean research and conservation with corals and whales among other marine ecosystems on the agenda. Please also check out the Sustainability in Alentejo wine series that I have been posting. The latest episode features an interview with Professor Kimberly Nicholas at the University of Lund about regenerative practices that underscore the critical importance of learning to work with nature rather than against nature. Thanks for listening to ClimateGenn. Please do like, follow, share, or subscribe if you can. Also, please do leave feedback on episodes. Animation sources - NASA:

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world's leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andrew is joined by Bill McGuire, author of Hothouse Earth: An Inhabitant's Guide. Bill McGuire is Professor Emeritus of Geophysical and Climate Hazards at University College London, a co-director of the New Weather Institute, and was a contributor to the 2012 IPCC report on climate change and extreme events. His books include A Guide to the End of the World: Everything you Never Wanted to Know and Waking the Giant: How a Changing Climate Triggers Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Volcanoes. He writes for many publications including The Guardian, The Times, The Observer, New Scientist, Focus and Prospect, and blogs for the New Weather Institute, Scientists for Global Responsibility, Extinction Rebellion and Operation Noah. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

CLIMATE ACTION RADIO SHOWAUGUST 15TH 2022Produced by Vivien Langford RECALIBRATING THE MILITARY TO DISARM THE CLIMATE HYPERTHREAT  AND ITS FOSSIL ALLIES GUESTSEskimo Joe - Song "Say Something" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtWeAspTz0gThe Singing Revolution - Music from Estonia - https://singingrevolution.com/ Dr Elizabeth Boulton, a former army major in the ADF has published Plan E with the US Marine Corps University in Virginia. Her expertise in logistics and experience in East Timor and Iraq has shown her the flaws in our preparation for threats of a conventional nature. She calls for a Climate Emergency Peace Treaty to give us time to focus on the hyperthreat that makes present day conflicts pale in comparison.  She is shocked that there is no plan to disarm the climate hyperthreat. Armies of the world are sent to protect the supply lines for oil, coal and gas yet these are at the core of  the hyperthreat. Police are used to intimidate and imprison protestors blockading the system that is overheating the earth. This is outdated thinking and dangerous.  Governments, financiers, military and intelligence services are rocketing our ecosystems to "hothouse Earth". However, what is presently legal will soon become criminal ecocide. Imagine  an oil well being dismantled by workers and attacked by mercenaries from the black market in Oil.Or imagine  a forest with  Indigenous protectors being terrorised by illegal loggers. Or fisheries or water supplies that need to be conserved for the common good. Or miners opening up an illegal coal mine. It's hard to imagine it now, but calling in the troops to protect this work might be necessary if all other peaceful negotiations fail. There is a lot of compassion for veterans traumatised by what they have done and seen and this plan  re deploys them in building and land regeneration.  Mobilising the 18 million people displaced by climate chaos would give them jobs as earth citizens. Dr Boulton's  fast and furious plan is that Global security forces will be deployed to help us survive.Related news articles: Alumna Dr Elizabeth Boulton addresses the ‘hyperthreat' of climate change, UNSW Canberra, 26 July 2022 Climate Change Isn't a Threat Multiplier. It's the Main Threat. Defense One, 2 July 2022. https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2022/07/climate-change-isnt-threat-multiplier-its-main-threat/368814/ Applying war theory to the hyperthreat of climate and environmental change, Independent Australia, 25 May 2022.  https://independentaustralia.net/environment/environment-display/applying-war-theory-to-the-hyperthreat-of-climate-and-environmental-change,16399  Byline Times, journalist Nafeez Ahmed: Defence Agencies ‘Accelerating' Risk of ‘Hothouse Earth' US Military Study Warns, 23 June 2022 https://bylinetimes.com/2022/06/23/defence-agencies-accelerating-risk-of-hothouse-earth-us-military-study-warns/  The theoretical paper was published within JAMS:  Here: https://www.usmcu.edu/Portals/218/JAMS_Spring2022_13_1_web_1.pdf  OR Here: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/857233 but the actual plan E was published here:  https://www.usmcu.edu/Outreach/Marine-Corps-University-Press/Expeditions-with-MCUP-digital-journal/An-Introduction-to-PLAN-E/    

Bill McGuire (pictured) is a Professor of Geophysical & Climate Hazards at the University College of London and has written many books, the latest being "Hothouse Earth: an inhabitant's guide", and he has agreed to chat with Climate Conversations just as soon as he has navigated fallout from the book. Writing in the Melbourne Age, Ben Cubby tells us about "Nation in clean car traffic jam after decade of delay". And the World Resources Institute writes about "5 Reasons Cities Should Include Trees in Climate Action". The City of Greater Shepparton is already advanced in this area with its 'One Tree Per Child" program. Other climate links are: "Why is the UK so unprepared for extreme heat and what can be done?"; "Revealed: Car industry's secret emissions plan would slow electric vehicle uptake"; "‘Unacceptable costs': savanna burning under Australia's carbon credit scheme is harming human health; "'Celebrating Agriculture for Development – Outcomes, Impacts and the Way Ahead,”; "Climate Finance Needs Rethinking to Reach Indigenous Peoples on the Ground". Enjoy "Music for a Warming World". --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/robert-mclean/message

Hothouse Earth (pictured) by Bill McGuire warns us of both challenging and difficult times ahead. Read the story "‘Soon it will be unrecognisable': total climate meltdown cannot be stopped, says expert" from The Guardian by Robin McKie. Other climate links for today are: "What can I do about climate change? 14 ways to take positive action"; "Study Sees Potential Ways to Mitigate India's Risk of Groundwater Depletion"; "Energy Efficiency in Transportation"; "Humanity can't equivocate any longer. This is a climate emergency"; "Record rain in St. Louis is what climate change looks like"; "Climate change, rising insurance costs, food security singled out in CSIRO megatrends report"; "Action on climate change is action on the cost of living"; "Weather Updates: Deadly Floods Swamp Kentucky, With More Storms to Come"; "Global climate crisis hits home in the U.S. amid record heat and pervasive wildfires"; "Climate breakdown made UK heatwave 10 times more likely, study finds"; "The Tiny Australian Territory That Avoided the Global Energy Crisis"; "Climate Bill ‘Transformative' for Auto and Energy Industries"; "Climate change is intensifying the water cycle, bringing more powerful storms and flooding – here's what the science shows"; "Drought increases rural suicide, and climate change will make drought worse". Enjoy "Music for a Warming World". --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/robert-mclean/message

Over the next few months, Hothouse Earth will be sharing  conversations with women about their experiences in shaping environmental and social change through the power of the law and some of the challenges that they've faced along the way. 

Melbourne's David Spratt (pictured) took advantage of the city's Covid-19 lockdown to assemble the facts to produce the "Climate Reality Check 2020". David talked about the new report at the November meeting of the Victorian Climate Action Network (VCAN) at which he made reference to a number of relevant publications, among them: What has become known as the "Hothouse Earth" report; A story from The Guardian headed: "Melting Antarctic ice will raise sea level by 2.5 metres – even if Paris climate goals are met, study finds"; A story he and Ian Dunlop wrote and published in The Canberra Times headed: "Net-zero emissions by 2050: leadership or climate colonialism?"; A letter published in The Guardian headed, "Hitting net-zero is not enough – we must restore the climate"; And a story from Earth.org headed: "Climate crisis: University of Cambridge to launch a new centre to explore geoengineering and climate change". See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rising global temperatures have produced extreme weather and a rising sea level. Climate scientists fear we may soon reach the point of no return, resulting in a hothouse with large portions of the planet uninhabitable. Authors of a major report on this phenomenon explain.

Guests:Sophia Kruszrewski, Clinic Director, Center for Agriculture and Food SystemsHillary Hoffmann, Professor of Law, Environmental Law CenterBarry Hill, Visiting Scholar at the Environmental Law Institute and Adjunct Faculty at Vermont Law SchoolRussel Mendell, MERL’20Patrick Parenteau, Professor of Law and Senior Counsel in the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic (ENRLC)Hosts:Jeannie Oliver, Assistant Professor and Staff Attorney, Energy ClinicMason Overstreet, Staff Attorney, Environmental Advocacy Clinic

Directly from the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) Mr. Frank Princiotta, Retired Director of the Air Pollution, Prevention, & Control Division discusses the immediate and longer range impact of Global Warming. The present circumstances (catastrophic floods, hurricanes, tornados....) seem invisible to the general public, yet continue to worsen. Causes? Whether one believes it is earth's natural progression or that global warming was caused by man - there is already irreversible damage that mankind must deal with as the keepers of this planet. Mr. Princiotta emphasized that a bleak outlook (world draughts, famine) would be a future reality if global warming goes unchecked. He discussed the distinct indicators that point toward a faster realization of these events in our near future.  He discussed the "Hothouse" Earth... in which the rising earth temperature would change the entire planet - limiting man's ability to survive on earth at the same level we now take for granted. We also discussed at length the ways in which man can slow down this crisis and begin to address it through renewable energy sources (wind and solar) and the expansion of existing technology to place renewable energy into usable rechargeable batteries for smaller electric devices & potentially automobiles. The need for large investments to be delegated into this research & innovation was clear. Mr. Princiotta has a collection of 17 Environmental Songs which can be found here: (he recommends Song 2: Just Ours to Loan). http://heartrockmusic.com/album_earth/album_earth.html

Guests:Barry Hill, Visiting Scholar at the Environmental Law Institute and Adjunct Faculty at Vermont Law SchoolCarmen Gonzalez, Professor of Law at Seattle University School of LawHosts:Jeannie Oliver, Assistant Professor and Staff AttorneyFor more Hothouse Earth, follow us on Twitter @HothouseEarth, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website, www.hothouseearthpodcast.com.

Guests: Barry Hill, Visiting Scholar at the Environmental Law Institute and Adjunct Faculty at Vermont Law School Carmen Gonzalez, Professor of Law at Seattle University School of Law Hosts: Jeannie Oliver, Assistant Professor and Staff Attorney Mason Overstreet, LLM Toxics Fellow with the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic Recommended Resources: Professor Carmen Gonzalez's Hot Topic Lecture: Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene Their country is disappearing, a short documentary on the Marshall Islands Natural Disasters: Developing Resilience and Addressing Climate Refugees, VJEL Top 10 Watch List 2019 For more Hothouse Earth, follow us on Twitter @HothouseEarth, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website, www.hothouseearthpodcast.com.

In the third and final episode on Trump's "America First Energy Plan" hosts Jeannie Oliver and Mason Overstreet examine the wide variety of regulations that protect our water, air, land and public health. In an effort to put industry first, is the Trump administration ultimately putting environment last? Vermont Law School Professor Pat Parenteau and Boston College Law School Professor Zygmunt Plater discuss the legal actions fighting regulatory rollbacks as well as the effect these decisions have on the economy and public health. For more Hothouse Earth, follow us on Twitter @HothouseEarth, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website, www.hothouseearthpodcast.com. Guests: Patrick Parenteau, Professor of Law and Senior Counsel in the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic (ENRLC) Zygmunt J. B. Plater, Professor of Law at Boston College Law School Hosts: Jeannie Oliver, Assistant Professor and Staff Attorney Mason Overstreet, LLM Toxics Fellow with the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic

For more Hothouse Earth, follow us on Twitter @HothouseEarth, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website, www.hothouseearthpodcast.com. Guest: Professor John Echeverria, Environmental Law Center Hosts: Jeannie Oliver, Assistant Professor and Staff Attorney Mason Overstreet, LLM Toxics Fellow with the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic Recommended Resources: Professor John Echeverria's Hot Topic Lecture United States District Court, Northern District of California Decision Court of Appeals Filings United States Courts for the Ninth Circuit Oral Arguments

For more Hothouse Earth, follow us on Twitter @HothouseEarth, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website, www.hothouseearthpodcast.com. Guests: Kyle Tisdel JD'05, Western Environmental Law Center Shiloh Hernandez JD'08, Western Environmental Law Center Hosts: Jeannie Oliver, Assistant Professor and Staff Attorney Mason Overstreet, LLM Toxics Fellow with the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic With special thank you to the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law and the Top 10 Environmental Watch List 2019: http://vjel.vermontlaw.edu/topten/?toptenyear=2019

For more Hothouse Earth, follow us on Twitter @HothouseEarth, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website, www.hothouseearthpodcast.com. Guests: Hillary Hoffmann, Professor of Law, Environmental Law Center Hosts: Jeannie Oliver, Assistant Professor and Staff Attorney Mason Overstreet, LLM Toxics Fellow with the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic With special thank you to the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law and the Top 10 Environmental Watch List 2019: http://vjel.vermontlaw.edu/topten/?toptenyear=2019

This is a repeat broadcast from the January 11, 2019 program. On a week when youth around the planet are mobilizing strikes for ‘climate action,' the Global Research News Hour highlights the major indicators of a natural world in crisis due to global warming. In the first half hour, following a short report on a local (Winnipeg) youth activist event, University of Ottawa based climate systems scientist Paul Beckwith outlines some of the more worrying signs that even the October 2018 IPCC Special Report on Climate Change failed to adequately address, he looks at the threats to the polar ice caps and the role they play in regulating familiar weather patterns, and he assesses some of what needs to be done to avoid multiple ‘tipping points', and a ‘Hothouse Earth' scenario. In our second half hour, wilderness adventurer, independent journalist, former Iraq War correspondent, and Truthout staff writer Dahr Jamail navigates listeners through The End of Ice, his recently published book on climate change.

For more Hothouse Earth, follow us on Twitter @HothouseEarth, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website, www.hothouseearthpodcast.com. Guests: Laurie Beyranevand, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law Sophia Kruszrewski, Clinic Director, Center for Agriculture and Food Systems Ferd Hoefner, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition Cynthia Larson, Larson Farm and Creamery Cris Coffin, American Farmland Trust Hosts: Jeannie Oliver, Assistant Professor and Staff Attorney Mason Overstreet, LLM Toxics Fellow with the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic With special thank you to the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law and the Top 10 Environmental Watch List 2019: http://vjel.vermontlaw.edu/topten/?toptenyear=2019

Gabe and Rick speak with Dr. Will Steffens, lead scientist for a report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, “Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene” which examines to the possibilities that  our planet could slip into a Hothouse Earth and how we are to avoid this outcome which could be monumentally catastrophic. 

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Directly from the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) Mr. Frank Princiotta, Retired Director of the Air Pollution, Prevention, & Control Division discusses the immediate and longer range impact of Global Warming. The present circumstances (catastrophic floods, hurricanes, tornados....) seem invisible to the general public, yet continue to worsen. Causes? Whether one believes its earth's natural progression or that global warming was caused by man - there is already irreversible damage that mankind must deal with as the keepers of this planet. Mr. Princiotta emphasized that a bleak outlook (world draughts, famine) would be a future reality if global warming goes unchecked. He discussed the distinct indicators that point toward a faster realization of these events in our near future.  He discussed the "Hothouse" Earth... in which the rising earth temperature would change the entire planet - limiting man's ability to survive on earth at the same level we now take for granted. We also discussed at length the ways in which man can slow down this crisis and begin to address it through renewable energy sources (wind and solar) and the expansion of existing technology to place renewable energy into usable rechargeable batteries for smaller electric devices & potentially automobiles. The need for large investments to be delegated into this research & innovation was clear. Mr. Princiotta has a collection of 17 Environmental Songs which can be found here: (he recommends Song 2: Just Ours to Loan). http://heartrockmusic.com/album_earth/album_earth.html  

Earth system science studies the planet as an array of interacting “spheres” that represent components of a single system. Antarctica dominates the cryosphere—the frozen parts of the planet consisting of ice and snow—and thus has a major influence on the overall functioning of the Earth system. Joining the podcast is Prof. Will Steffen, a world leading Earth system scientist and public intellectual who has long operated at the interface of science and policy, including as chairman of the Antarctic Science Advisory Committee in Australia. He is also closely associated with concepts such as the Anthropocene, the Great Acceleration, and the Planetary Boundaries framework. In addition to explaining the centrality of Antarctica in the Earth system, Prof. Steffen discusses the idea of “Hothouse Earth”, evoked in an article published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, which received a great deal of international media attention.  

On a week when youth around the planet are mobilizing strikes for ‘climate action,' the Global Research News Hour highlights the major indicators of a natural world in crisis due to global warming. In the first half hour, following a short report on a local (Winnipeg) youth activist event, University of Ottawa based climate systems scientist Paul Beckwith outlines some of the more worrying signs that even the October 2018 IPCC Special Report on Climate Change failed to adequately address, he looks at the threats to the polar ice caps and the role they play in regulating familiar weather patterns, and he assesses some of what needs to be done to avoid multiple ‘tipping points', and a ‘Hothouse Earth' scenario. In our second half hour, wilderness adventurer, independent journalist, former Iraq War correspondent, and Truthout staff writer Dahr Jamail navigates listeners through The End of Ice, his recently published book on climate change.

Rising global temperatures have produced effects such as extreme weather and a rising sea level. Climate scientists fear that if temperatures continue to rise, we may soon reach the point of no return. If the earth’s natural cooling systems start to fail, each could feed failure of the next, resulting in a hothouse with large portions of the planet uninhabitable. Authors of a major report on this phenomenon explain.

Sometimes, a news story that relates to some of the topics we talk about on this show catches my eye. That's when you know it's time for a Thermonuclear Take! (tl;dr, experimenting with new bonus episode format.)  This episode, we're going to talk about the recent heatwaves over Europe, Japan and North America, and the thorny issues of Climate Change attribution. We'll also discuss that Steffen et al. paper about a Hothouse Earth: Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene. Will climate feedbacks doom us to 4-5C of warming if we fail to meet the Paris Agreement? Can anyone state that definitively? A perspective.  Naturally the aim of these bonus episodes is to be topical and provoke debate, so why not get in touch with us via Twitter @physicspod or via www.physicspodcast.com where you'll find all the archival episodes, alongside opportunities to donate to the show?  If you're more interested in historical than current events, our podcast series about Stalin is in the midst of covering the Second World War...  Trajectories of Earth System in the Anthropocene http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/07/31/1810141115

We explore the new “Hothouse Earth” study and its political and social implications. Lauren Latour joins us again to discuss the dismantling of the green energy industry in Ontario. We also consider the strange anti-media tactics of the new provincial government, along with a flurry of news items including the slave-like treatment of Californian inmate firefighters, UK food security and Caribbean nations’ ire with Donald Trump’s 'environmental policy'.