Episodes

  • Weather Weather Everywhere

    Weather Weather Everywhere
    Jan 10 2025
    From smog-choked India to flooded Spain to smoke-choked New York to the rain dump in the north of England to the Thanksgiving snow dump on the East Coast of the United States, what do all these things have to do with climate and what can we do about them?
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    28 mins
  • We Can't 'Recover' from Hurricanes Anymore

    We Can't 'Recover' from Hurricanes Anymore
    Jan 4 2025
    Climate change is pushing us beyond what we can handle as a society. Hurricanes Helene and Milton have left FEMA, the National Flood Insurance Program, and the Small Business Administration are all out of money and at the maximum of their ability to borrow. At this point it would take major Congressional intervention to mount even a normal disaster response. When even a rich country like the United States, that can borrow huge sums, struggles mightily to handle two storms, what chance does the rest of the world have against climate? What chance does the United States of the future have when there are more and stronger hurricanes than even this? (This was originally two radio broadcasts that straddled the election, so references to 'last week, two weeks ago' etc. are to early November.)
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    56 mins
  • Ukraine and the Climate Crisis

    Ukraine and the Climate Crisis
    Dec 16 2024
    What's happening in Ukraine is deeply entwined with the climate crisis. Its dependence on fossil fuels that's creating both of these crises. Russia is an expansionist state that exports fossil fuels. This is the structure of whats happening. As long as both of those conditions are present, we are going to have to worry about what Russia will do next. President-Elect Trump is not going to change either of those things, so if we're right then the best he can do is a temporary ceasefire, not permanently end Russian aggression.
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    28 mins
  • Cop 29: Money From Nowhere

    Cop 29: Money From Nowhere
    Dec 9 2024
    Cop 29 is in the trash can of history. This was the 2024 version of the United Nations summit on solving global climate change. When we describe what happened, listeners will think we're joking (we're not). The Chief Executive of the conference offered to exchange oil and gas leases for sponsorships. The big announcement was money for poor countries, but the conference didn't bother to identify the source of this money; they skipped the part where they said where the money would come from. They just announced that there would be money, from an unknown source, and adjourned.
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    28 mins
  • What to blame for the 2024 Election: Blame Itself

    What to blame for the 2024 Election: Blame Itself
    Nov 9 2024
    With Donald Trump's victory, near-term global progress on climate change seems impossible. How did we get here? This episode looks at each state and shows how deep and wide Trump's appeal was. My view of why has a lot to do with social division. The orientation to blame and attach each other over superficialities, very common on the left, creates an angry divided society on which a candidate of anger and division can easily prey. Blame feeds the monster of division, and the 2024 election is that monster's excrement.
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    28 mins
  • Drilling in the Arctic—Trump Redux

    Drilling in the Arctic—Trump Redux
    Oct 29 2024
    We made this episode in December 2020, after the 2020 election but before President Biden and Vice President Harris took office. It's directly relevant now. Alycee and Matt examine Trump's efforts to rip open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and what Biden might do to stop it (he later did exactly what we said). And we talk about the threat of fascism in American politics. Four years ago, and one month from now, America and the climate face the same dilemma.
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    28 mins
  • Tim Walz on the Environment and Climate

    Tim Walz on the Environment and Climate
    Oct 16 2024
    Tim Walz, Democratic Party Vice Presidential nominee and Governor of Minnesota, has been hailed as a progressive. And he is, relative to other national politicians. But what if we assess him relative to scientific necessity on climate change? The record is mixed. We aim for an even-handed discussion of Tim Walz's record, and of his potential should he and Kamala Harris win the White House.
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    42 mins
  • Climate Disasters from May-June 2024

    Climate Disasters from May-June 2024
    Sep 22 2024
    Sorry for the delayed posting on this one, folks! Though late, it remains (unfortunately) absolutely relevant. The topic? Climate disasters are happening all over the United States and all over the world, with deadly consequences. The climate crisis is hurting us a right now; it is not a future problem. Extreme temperatures in India, hospitalizations at Trump rallies, dead homeless bodies on the streets of Phoenix, and half a million heat stroke cases at the Hajj in Mecca are just a few of the incidents we cover.
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    28 mins