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FN/Climate Files 54 – Sound the Alarm MOVING on with news and politics about global warming in the new year.   Let’s forget COP15 even happened.  Look ahead, what else can we do?  Today Climate Files includes a recent short interview with climate scientist James Hansen largely about his book Storms of my Grandchildren. Remember:  sounding the alarm is not alarmism — it’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN53 / Copenhagen Was Not a Failure How did Copenhagen go? To hear some tell it we are now doomed, but don’t believe it. A COP15 accord was agreed upon by 192 countries, and was impressive for many reasons, with COP15 bringing together leaders from all over the world in an unprecedented marathon work session fitting for its serious nature. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN52 / Eco Rock Stars Some news from Copenhagen, some of it kind of surprising and disturbing. Bill McKibben of 350.org and President Nasheed of the Maldives, both Eco Rock Stars,  are featured in this episode.  Their main message:  350 ppm is a necessary target, and it needs to be reinserted into the text of the international agreement that is being [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN51 / The Geek Files This episode contains talks by the delegates from Stanford University and a talk by Steven Chu, a pretty geeky guy, from last weekend.  Monday was Oceans Day at Copenhagens COP15, and the guys from Stanford discussed the health of the oceans and why that 350 number is so much better than that 450 number that [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN51 / The Geek Files This episode contains talks by the delegates from Stanford University and a talk by Steven Chu, a pretty geeky guy, from last weekend.  Monday was Oceans Day at Copenhagens COP15, and the guys from Stanford discussed the health of the oceans and why that 350 number is so much better than that 450 number that [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN50 / Climate Files Here is your Copenhagen climate summit summary from Week 1. Recorded clips include Naomi Klein, Nnimmo Bassey from Klimaforum09, and James Hansen from an interview with The Guardian on December 2nd. Hansen discussed nuclear power and how this climate summit isn’t going to be adequate. Naomi Klein discusses mainly the same things, but from [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN49 / The Climate Olympics Begin The Copenhagen climate summit COP15 has begun, and it seems like most of the world is there. That’s the biggest news. Coinciding with that, the EPA has passed an endangerment finding under the Clean Air Act.  Could we ask for anything more?  Yes, a binding legal treaty to reduce emissions, in Copenhagen.  That’s what [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN49 / The Climate Olympics Begin The Copenhagen climate summit COP15 has begun, and it seems like most of the world is there. That’s the biggest news. Coinciding with that, the EPA has passed an endangerment finding under the Clean Air Act.  Could we ask for anything more?  Yes, a binding legal treaty to reduce emissions, in Copenhagen.  That’s what [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN49 / The Climate Olympics Begin The Copenhagen climate summit COP15 has begun, and it seems like most of the world is there. That’s the biggest news. Coinciding with that, the EPA has passed an endangerment finding under the Clean Air Act.  Could we ask for anything more?  Yes, a binding legal treaty to reduce emissions, in Copenhagen.  That’s what [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN48 / Climate Summit Anticipation This is your Copenhagen Climate Summit introduction.  In this episode you will find out some basic answers to: why is the summit important?  What can we expect? President Obama will be attending the Copenhagen climate summit on December 9th. UPDATE: The White House reported on Friday December 4th that President Obama will be attending [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN48 / Climate Summit Anticipation This is your Copenhagen Climate Summit introduction.  In this episode you will find out some basic answers to: why is the summit important?  What can we expect? President Obama will be attending the Copenhagen climate summit on December 9th. UPDATE: The White House reported on Friday December 4th that President Obama will be attending [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN48 / Climate Summit Anticipation This is your Copenhagen Climate Summit introduction.  In this episode you will find out some basic answers to: why is the summit important?  What can we expect? President Obama will be attending the Copenhagen climate summit on December 9th. The climate science continues to be very serious.  In the new Report:  Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN47 / Are We Lemmings? It was announced this morning that President Obama will attend the climate summit in Copenhagen, and he also announced his emissions targets: in the range of 17% by 2020. This is great news! It’s also bad news. Is this the best America can do? This response to climate change is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN47 / Are We Lemmings? It was announced this morning that President Obama will attend the climate summit in Copenhagen, and he also announced his emissions targets: in the range of 17% by 2020. This is great news! It’s also bad news. Is this the best America can do? This response to climate change is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN46 / Cap and Raid The cap and trade legislation has been “put off” until well after the Copenhagen summit in December. It’s pushed into spring, 2010, if then.  If you want to read some better bills than cap and trade, which should be called Cap and RAID, you can check out all the other bills that intend to mitigate [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN46 / Cap and Raid The cap and trade legislation has been “put off” until well after the Copenhagen summit in December. It’s pushed into spring, 2010, if then.  If you want to read some better bills than cap and trade, which should be called Cap and RAID, you can check out all the other bills that intend to mitigate [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN45 / Peak Oil and IEA Report The new 2009 World Energy Report shows a decline in oil, but did the U.S. interfere in the final report to avoid a panic in the markets?  The IEA denies the pressure. Many experts think Saudi Arabia and other countries are inflating the numbers reflecting what oil they have left. This was NaPodPoMo episode 11 of the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN45 / Peak Oil and IEA Report The new 2009 World Energy Report shows a decline in oil, but did the U.S. interfere in the final report to avoid a panic in the markets?  The IEA denies the pressure. Many experts think Saudi Arabia and other countries are inflating the numbers reflecting what oil they have left. This was NaPodPoMo episode 11 of the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN44 / Green News & Gore Fest LinkTV has a new weekly climate change video here and will appear on FN’s news website every week also. I went to a talk tonight given by Sami Rasouli . . . He’s an Iraqi-American who has been a peace activist for Iraq and he recently returned from a trip to Iraq. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN43 / Rethink Meat Meat consumption might be destroying the planet and killing us.  It’s certainly not green, so maybe we should think about it more before using it so much.  And Americans consume more meat than anyone on the planet.   It’s contributing to climate change, to terrible environmental practices, pollution and our inability to feed everyone on [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN42 / Green Justice Climate change will be very much about justice in the years and decades to come.    Green money–Green jobs–Green greed–the non- Jolly Green Giant Known as Copenhagen — Is climate change stalling and finger-pointing  green insanity?  Not everything can be called green. Economic INjustice means those with the most money will survive climate change [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN42 / Green Justice Climate change will be very much about justice in the years and decades to come.    Green money–Green jobs–Green greed–the non- Jolly Green Giant Known as Copenhagen — Is climate change stalling and finger-pointing  green insanity?  Not everything can be called green. Economic INjustice means those with the most money will survive climate change [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN/NaPodPoMo8 Green Justice Climate change will be very much about justice in the years and decades to come.  This is Episode8 of the podcasting marathon known as Napodpomo.  Green money–Green jobs–Green greed–the Jolly Green Giant Known as Copenhagen — Is climate change stalling and finger-pointing  green insanity?  Not everything can be called green. Economic INjustice means those [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN41 / The Brutal Truth The Brutal Truth about climate change is this:  it’s much worse, and much more threatening to our future, than the public thinks it is.  In fact, it has scientists scared.  Yet the political response is to “work with business” and “work with Republicans” and conservative Democrats like Joe Lieberman to get a passable bill that [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN41 / The Brutal Truth The Brutal Truth about climate change is this:  it’s much worse, and much more threatening to our future, than the public thinks it is.  In fact, it has scientists scared.  Yet the political response is to “work with business” and “work with Republicans” and conservative Democrats like Joe Lieberman to get a passable bill that [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN40 / History of Global Warming Science The history of the discovery of global warming/climate change goes back much farther in time than people think. And no, global warming was not invented by  Al Gore.  NASA scientist James Hansen didn’t discover it either, despite his 1988 testimony before Congress. Global warming theory has been around for a long time, since before industrialization.  In [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN40 / History of Global Warming Science The history of the discovery of global warming/climate change goes back much farther in time than people think. And no, global warming was not invented by  Al Gore.  NASA scientist James Hansen didn’t discover it either, despite his 1988 testimony before Congress. Global warming theory has been around for a long time, since before industrialization.  In [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN39 / Science & Tech News This was NaPodPoMo5, the fifth installment of Futurism Now’s podcast marathon. Covered in this episode:  Deep-sea Ecosystems Affected By Climate Change. Trees in the desert, maybe the Sahara, might solve climate change?  Well, it’s a plan. Liquid Granite and the hunt for a carbon-neutral cement, Foldable 3D Solar Cells, robot fish and more, in some science and tech [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN39 / Science & Tech News This was NaPodPoMo5, the fifth installment of Futurism Now’s podcast marathon. Covered in this episode:  Deep-sea Ecosystems Affected By Climate Change. Trees in the desert, maybe the Sahara, might solve climate change?  Well, it’s a plan. Liquid Granite and the hunt for a carbon-neutral cement, Foldable 3D Solar Cells, robot fish and more, in some science and tech [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN38 / Climate News Update News from Futurism Now, and episode #4 of the NaPodPoMo podcast marathon. What are Senators up to on the climate bill? Senate Republicans Stall Climate Legislation!  Story here. Panic at 2:00 am!   Where is the ice? Utilities Drop Plans for Big Stone II Coal Plant, clearing the way for wind power.   Great news! Al Gore chats about his [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN38 / Climate News Update News from Futurism Now, and episode #4 of the NaPodPoMo podcast marathon. What are Senators up to on the climate bill? Senate Republicans Stall Climate Legislation!  Story here. Panic at 2:00 am!   Where is the ice? Utilities Drop Plans for Big Stone II Coal Plant, clearing the way for wind power.   Great news! Al Gore chats about his [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN37 / The Mystery of Climate Skeptics This is episode 3 of Futurism Now Radio’s National Podcast Post Month contribution.  See the rest of the participating podcasts on the NPPM website. The mystery of global warming skeptics continues to perplex me.  I don’t understand people who deny facts and science — do you? Someday, we’ll figure it out.  Send me your thoughts [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN37 / The Mystery of Climate Skeptics This is episode 3 of Futurism Now Radio’s National Podcast Post Month contribution.  See the rest of the participating podcasts on the NPPM website. The mystery of global warming skeptics continues to perplex me.  I don’t understand people who deny facts and science — do you? Someday, we’ll figure it out.  Send me your thoughts [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN36 / Climate Info U Need 2 Know Here are some things you need to know before Copenhagen, just the basics. There will be more basics coming later this week. Start with the UNFCCC website and their facts about climate change. Today’s installment of NaPodPoMo #2, my podcasting marathon, is about some necessary background in order to understand some of the future podcasts about [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN36 / Climate Info U Need 2 Know Here are some things you need to know before Copenhagen, just the basics. There will be more basics coming later this week. Start with the UNFCCC website and their facts about climate change. Today’s installment of NaPodPoMo #2, my podcasting marathon, is about some necessary background in order to understand some of the future podcasts about [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN35 / Climate and Justice Kicking off NaPodPoMo month, Futurism Now covers environmental and climate justice and EPA news.  Join FN this month while we explore whether a daily podcast can be done  while retaining a semblance of a life. NaPodPoMo stands for “National Podcast Post Month”. Check out the other ones participating here. Climate justice is about climate [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN35 / Climate and Justice Kicking off NaPodPoMo month, Futurism Now covers environmental and climate justice and EPA news.  Join FN this month while we explore whether a daily podcast can be done  while retaining a semblance of a life. NaPodPoMo stands for “National Podcast Post Month”. Check out the other ones participating here. Climate justice is about climate [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN34 / Send Obama to Copenhagen with Climate Plan President Obama gave an energy speech at MIT in Massachusetts on October 23rd, which you will hear in this episode.  He announced some interesting things that MIT students are working on in terms of new energy.  He also said  the US is in a peaceful competition to develop clean technologies, and he championed US leadership [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN34 / Send Obama to Copenhagen with Climate Plan President Obama gave an energy speech at MIT in Massachusetts on October 23rd, which you will hear in this episode.  He announced some interesting things that MIT students are working on in terms of new energy.  He also said  the US is in a peaceful competition to develop clean technologies, and he championed US leadership [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN33 / The 4C Experiment The Four Degrees C experiment has begun. We might reach a four degree rise in temps by 2070, or even earlier.  That was unheard of and thought to be impossible, until recently. Anything over 4 degrees will probably lead to tipping points and runaway climate change. The finding was announced at a conference that took [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN33 / The 4C Experiment The Four Degrees C experiment has begun. We might reach a four degree rise in temps by 2070, or even earlier.  That was unheard of and thought to be impossible, until recently. Anything over 4 degrees will probably lead to tipping points and runaway climate change. The finding was announced at a conference that took [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN32 / Great Big Green Jobs Victory This episode contains a recording from the Green for All conference call from October 5th. It was all about green jobs and there are some good solid ideas in this recording. We definitely need jobs in the United States. In September the U.S. lost over 230,000 jobs. Unemployment continues [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN32 / Great Big Green Jobs Victory This episode contains a recording from the Green for All conference call from October 5th. It was all about green jobs and there are some good solid ideas in this recording. We definitely need jobs in the United States. In September the U.S. lost over 230,000 jobs. Unemployment continues [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN31 / Off to the Climate Races The Senate climate bill has arrived! It’s called CEJAPA, an awful name. That stands for Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act. Let’s call it the Climate Bill or the Kerry-Boxer bill.  It leaves a lot to be desired, because it’s still full of coal, and gas, and it’s also not even [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN31 / Off to the Climate Races The Senate climate bill has arrived! It’s called CEJAPA, an awful name. That stands for Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act. Let’s call it the Climate Bill or the Kerry-Boxer bill.  It leaves a lot to be desired, because it’s still full of coal, and gas, and it’s also not even [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN30 / The Age of Climate Cooperation The UN Summit on Climate Change brought together 100 world leaders at the UN on September 22 and the Age of Stupid movie event happened on September 21, all in New York City. What did they all accomplish?  It’s unclear.  The UN Summit was a good start, according to Ban Ki Moon, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN30 / The Age of Climate Cooperation The UN Summit on Climate Change brought together 100 world leaders at the UN on September 22 and the Age of Stupid movie event happened on September 21, all in New York City. What did they all accomplish?  It’s unclear.  The UN Summit was a good start, according to Ban Ki Moon, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN29 / Averting Catastrophe Will the U.S. avert climate catastrophe in time?  Are we really even trying? Last Thursday, September 17th, the American Security Project came up with a report, the Climate Security Index.   You can download the report here. It almost sounds like members of the Senate are planning to not act to slow down climate change,  so that things [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN29 / Averting Catastrophe Will the U.S. avert climate catastrophe in time?  Are we really even trying? Last Thursday, September 17th, the American Security Project came up with a report, the Climate Security Index.   You can download the report here. It almost sounds like members of the Senate are planning to not act to slow down climate change,  so that things [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN28 / Climate Engineering & Hazy Air The very air we breathe is causing us health problems.  Aerosols and other things in our air are still making us sick.  The military might be putting something in it, to fight climate change, or for reasons much worse. What’s in the air? Whatever it is, it’s killing people.  Chem trails, global dimming,  global hazing [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN28 / Climate Engineering & Hazy Air The very air we breathe is causing us health problems.  Aerosols and other things in our air are still making us sick.  The military might be putting something in it, to fight climate change, or for reasons much worse. What’s in the air? Whatever it is, it’s killing people.  Chem trails, global dimming,  global hazing [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN27 / National Clean Energy Summit 2.0 How best to mitigate climate change legislatively, and jobs and energy–specifically renewable energy discussed at the National Clean Energy Summit (website here). (The subtitle of this episode is “Dog and Pony Show”) See the news items I discussed on the FN news site here. The most disappointing bit of news was that Secretary of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN27 / Dog and Pony Show Two themes: How best to mitigate climate change legislatively, and jobs and energy–specifically renewable energy discussed at the National Clean Energy Summit (website here). See the news items I discussed on the FN news site here. The most disappointing was that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton OK’d the Alberta Clipper pipeline that was discussed last week.   There [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN27 / National Clean Energy Summit 2.0 How best to mitigate climate change legislatively, and jobs and energy–specifically renewable energy discussed at the National Clean Energy Summit (website here). (The subtitle of this episode is “Dog and Pony Show”) See the news items I discussed on the FN news site here. The most disappointing bit of news was that Secretary of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN23 / Solutions, Malaise or Collapse Could climate change lead to the end of civilization, a real collapse, like what happened to the Romans, the Aztecs, the Mayans? It’s not inconceivable. Today I have Part 1 of the Senate hearings on climate legislation from the Environment and Public Works committee.  The initial hearing has taken on new meaning, because since this [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN22 /A Crime in the Mountains This episode contains information on the G8, the Senate delay on the climate bill, T. Boone Pickens, and the coal related crime of mountain top removal. What happened at the G8 summit, why is T. Boone Pickens giving up on the world’s biggest wind farm in Texas, and what happened to the climate bill in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN20 / Enjoy it While You Can Enjoy your life while you can, because nothing we are doing right now will likely stop climate change in time. That is the terrifying message from Sir James Lovelock, UK scientist and inventor. Global heating will proceed. All Congress does is pass a cap and trade bill which won’t even cut emissions until [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN19 / Red Hot Report Last Thursday, June 18, the U.S. government released a report, the work of 13 government agencies, that gives us a serious picture of climate change.  It is called Global Climate Change Impacts in the U.S, and this episode contains the findings. The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) coordinates and integrates federal research on changes in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN18 / TERAWATTS OF POWER In this episode: News and a speaker from CIT on Powering the Planet and what it will take. The stone age didn’t end because we ran out of stones . . . . people got smarter.    We need to get smarter and move on to renewable energy.  Where are we going to get terawatts of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN16 / Peak Consequences Water shortages, mountaintop removal, continued use of coal, and a watered down climate/energy bill. This is the current reality. My state, like some others, is in a drought in what is supposed to be the wettest month of the summer. Is this a possible result of climate change? Peak oil and water shortages [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN15 / Time for Pressure Forums, conferences, and the EPA — what’s going on? This episode lets you in on what is happening in Bonn, the World Humanitarian forum, and what came out of Paris. The World Environment Day is only a couple of days away, it’s on Friday, June 5th! Read up about some of the events that will [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN14 / Nuclear Power Potential This episode presents four scientists and environmentalists making the case for the use of nuclear power. It’s believed by some people that environmentalists should be against nuclear power — I completely disagree. We are trying to find ways to solve and stop climate change, not fight the possibilities and the ideas for doing that.   [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN13 / Busta Myth Busting the myths of the cost of changing energy and capping emissions. But is the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 cap and trade bill right for right now or is it a waste of time? I gaze into my cloudy crystal ball and find — the answer is not so clear. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN12 / Take Action / A Republican Mis-Leader We need climate legislation before it’s too late. According to a new May 5th CNN poll a majority of Americans DO want something done about climate change. Congress, are you listening? They need to hear from us. May 6th and every day is CALL IN day to Congress. But there [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN11 / Major Economies Forum The road to Copenhagen continues with the U.S. State Department’s Major Economies forum, the world meeting on climate change, the last week in April. It was convened by President Obama. This episode plays the overview speech of Secretary Clinton at the beginning of the forum, and the televised interview with UN Secretary Yvo [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN10 / Window of Opportunity We have four years — but that’s not the number to remember. 350 is the number and now is our window of opportunity to deal with CO2 emissions. Republicans put out disinformation and Futurism Now tries to counteract it. Hear about Eco activism with Bill McKibben. He [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN09 / The EPA Rules The EPA rules! Last Friday, April 17th, the EPA released a preliminary ruling on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse emissions, at last. These greenhouse gases are pollutants, and they are harming human health, now and for future generations. Finally the U.S. has the opportunity to lead on something worthwhile again. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN08 — Earth the Sequel Highlights from the Discovery Channel’s presentation of Earth the Sequel, a “documentary” based on the book by Fred Krupp and Miriam Horn. I don’t agree with everything in this show, but it’s a good introduction to some real alternative energy sources that are being worked on and implemented today. Some of them are [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN07 / Inaction is Not an Option Societal transformation might be on the visible horizon. This episode contains highlights from last week’s Climate Congress in Copenhagen, and some speculation about geoengineering — will it be necessary and what will it include? The main finding from the Climate meeting was that governments have to act on climate change or drastic steps [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN06 / A Criminal Enterprise Highlights from Powershift09 sending a message to end the use of coal — and as speaker Robert Kennedy put it, coal is a criminal enterprise. What they are doing to mountains and our air is nothing short of criminal. It’s time to take action to stop coal. It’s time for a citizens arrest of coal. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN05 / Burn Unit Part 2 The latest science on climate change, as presented before the U.S. Senate environmental and public works committee, one of our new “Burn Units”. (my term). The planet is burning up and our government is ready to get to work to save the patient. This is part two, only available on Futurism Now. The latest science [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FN05 / Burn Unit pt. 1 This is a presentation of the latest science on climate change, as presented before the U.S. Senate Environmental and Public Works committee, one of our new “Burn Units”. The planet is burning up and our government is ready to get to work. This is part one, and part two will only be on [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website