IN REVERSE CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER… starting with our most recent show
2025 SEASON
Urgent Planet & Manufactured Fright April 9, 2025 Yes, yes the stock market. Does it matter water is being sucked out of the land and dumped into rising seas? What about emissions as we industrialize the ocean? Will growing conflict slow heat or speed it up? We have 3 guests to answer those questions: Luis Samaniego in Potsdam, David Kroodsma in Oakland, and Manfred Lenzen in Sydney. Download or listen to this Radio Ecoshock show in CD Quality (57 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB)
Rotten at the Top April 2, 2025 Climate and security analyst Genevieve Guenther and her new book “Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It“. Canadian climate scientist Paul Beckwith: very serious new studies, like turbocharged extreme weather on every continent, planetary insolvency by 2070, and “jaw-dropping” increases in hurricanes. Plus my new song “Rotten at the Top”. Download or listen to this Radio Ecoshock show in CD Quality (57 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB)
Talk About Emergencies! March 26, 2025 The atmosphere is changing much faster than ever before. CO2 increased by 25% in 2024. Explore declining carbon capture by plants with world recognized expert Dr. Pep Canadell, Chief Research Scientist CISRO Australia & Exec. Dir. of the Global Carbon Project. Computer guru and security expert Richard Power says global warming is a threat far more serious than terrorism. A critical conversation with Richard, recorded in 2007. It is spooky how much this interview speaks to right now. Download or listen to this Radio Ecoshock show in CD Quality (57 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB)
Disaster-ology for our time March 19, 2025 Shut down science. Close the EPA and Greenpeace. Forget all that climate hoax stuff! We still get hotter faster. Seas rise higher, sooner. Expect more super-storms, wildfires, and closed down rescue services. Disaster management specialist Dr. Samantha Montano joins us. “Stand Up for Science” rally – short speeches by Bill Nye the Science Guy and Michael Mann, famous climate scientist. Plus headlines from the real world. From the gathering darkness, I’m Alex Smith. This is Radio Ecoshock. Download or listen to this Radio Ecoshock show in CD Quality (57 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB)
Whiplash March 12, 2025 Best friends become enemies. Enemies are friends. Business is great. The market tanks. Winter yesterday, summer today, new rules tomorrow. Welcome to whiplash, the time of self-inflicted wounds. What to do? We talk with Dana R. Fisher, expert in social action and author of “Saving Ourselves”. Then senior Australian scientist David Karoly with the frank view from Down-Under. Download or listen to this Radio Ecoshock show in CD Quality (57 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB)
Data Centers – Dark Footprint of the Cloud March 5, 2025 We take you deep inside the hidden core of the new bubble: data centers. After 10 years exploring data farms in America, Singapore and beyond, Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate published his paper “The Cloud Is Material: On the Environmental Impacts of Computation and Data Storage”. Then we tackle mountains of toxic waste rushed from Los Angeles fire zones with soil restoration expert Russell Taylor. Download or listen to this Radio Ecoshock show in CD Quality (57 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB)
Silencing Science February 26, 2025 I’d like to report a murder. Trump’s fossil lobby wants to strangle American climate science. You can’t even talk about it. We track the worst with Romany Webb from the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, and reporter Bob Berwyn from Inside Climate News. Officially now: wildfires, floods, and freaky weather are just a hoax. Download or listen to this Radio Ecoshock show in CD Quality (57 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB)
The Real Is Just Outside February 19, 2025 Are we ready for desperate measures? Veteran climate activist/author Mike Tidwell: the year of despair in his new book “The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue – A Story of Climate and Hope on One American Street”. Award-winning conservation biologist and author Thor Hanson finds the awe: “Close to Home – the Wonders of Nature Just Outside Your Door”. You can do it. Step up “Citizen Scientist”. Download or listen to this Radio Ecoshock show in CD Quality (57 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB)
TikToxification: Dumbing Down February 12, 2025 How could madness dominate social media and politics? People are getting stupider. Brain damaging trends are dumbing down the population. Heavy metals, toxic chemicals, COVID, wildfire smoke an aging population, and climate stress all threaten intelligence. Now add…“TikTokfication”. We talk with scientist “Mr. White Orange”. Tune in for unique talk on social media, culture, and our brains. Download or listen to this Radio Ecoshock show in CD Quality (57 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB)
Radical Uncertainty February 5, 2025 From the University of Bristol UK, scientist Dann Mitchell points to cumulative risks no one is counting. Can extreme climate-driven disasters change minds – even in right-leaning people? California business school marketing expert Rafay Siddiqui reveals how they get you to buy more stuff. Answering the Polycrisis: what Prof. Adam Tooze tells the rich at Davos. “If you’ve been feeling confused and as though everything is impacting on you all at the same time, this is not a personal, private experience. This is actually a collective experience.” Download or listen to this Radio Ecoshock show in CD Quality (57 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB)
How to Defuse A Climate Bomb January 29, 2025 Coal industry dwindling? That myth is blown up by German environmentalist Heffa Schücking. Then: 17,800 years ago, methane shot up in decades. Rapid ice melt changed the rain and an age of wildfire broke out. Is it happening again? We ask Ben Riddell-Young from CIRES. French economist Timothée Parrique says “Slow down or perish.” The slow way out. Download or listen to this Radio Ecoshock show in CD Quality (57 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB)
Clouds, Currents, Future January 22, 2025 Remember Romans becoming stupider due to Lead in their plates and goblets? Mercury poisoning drifts to the farthest corners, even the Poles – and reduces IQ just like Lead. Scientist Ari Feinberg from The Spanish National Research Council explains Mercury in the stratosphere. On January 10th, five major institutes reported 2024 was definitely the hottest year ever recorded. We just smashed through major milestones in climate change. Canadian climate scientist Paul Beckwith and I thrash through the latest greenhouse news. Download or listen to this Radio Ecoshock show in CD Quality (57 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB)
Clouds, Currents, Future January 15, 2025 Malibu burned as predicted on Radio Ecoshock in 2019 by late American Author Mike Davis. Meanwhile, the mystery of hot 2023 and 24 is solved. NASA scientist George Tselioudis reports shrinking cloud cover as planet warms. Plus: the rate of CO2 change can weaken the Gulf Stream/AMOC that keeps UK and Scandinavia warm. Important new science from Dr. Camille Hankel. Fire, clouds, and currents this week on Radio Ecoshock. Welcome. Download or listen to this Radio Ecoshock show in CD Quality (57 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB)
Techno-Utopianism Hard Landing January 8, 2025 Extreme flooding, drought, and wildfires – why? Why did scientists leave out models showing extreme warming? UK expert Ranjini Swaminathan takes us inside the future-forecast machine. Then eco-feminism revisited: U.S. Green Party founder Charlene Spretnak & Susan Griffin on “Women & Nature – Speed, Consciousness & Quantification” at the Chicago “Techno-Utopianism and the Fate of the Earth” Forum. Download or listen to this Radio Ecoshock show in CD Quality (57 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB)
New Year, New Atmosphere January 1, 2025 Life in a new hot atmosphere. Alex with the greenhouse gas breakdown and outlook. Can machines claw them back? MIT carbon capture expert Dr. Howard Herzog. From Australia, science led by Dr. Milton Speer confirms: we experience new seasons in a changed world. Download or listen to this Radio Ecoshock show in CD Quality (57 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB)
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