Guests in The Sustainable Hour no 375 on 11 AUgust 2021 are research psychologist Kylie Harris and retired physics teacher Keith Burrows for a talk about the new climate reality we are confronted with.
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What it will take to achieve a safe climate
IPCC lead scientist William Moomaw explains what we must do to restore a safe climate. He sees forest restoration as an important element of that.
Lessons from a hotter planet: Things escalate quickly
Interview with author Mark Lynas about his new book, ‘Our Final Warning’
‘Time for citizens to act’ – climate history
“Time for politicians to act”, said the scientists more than four decades ago. However the politicians at the time didn’t think it was time. As this blogpost documents, through more than half a century, we – humanity, but in particular: our elected leaders and business leaders – have knowingly chosen to
Take it from The Terminator
In The Sustainable Hour on 4 July 2018, we talk with Simon Sheikh, managing director of Future Super, and professor Lesley Hughes, founding member of the Climate Council and a lead author on the International Panel on Climate Change’s latest two reports. We play a peer-reviewed rap song about IPCC
What freak weather events have to do with Australia’s coal
By Dr Andrew Glikson, Earth and Paleoclimate scientist, Australian National University When Hurricane Harvey hit the United States in August 2017, it was called a “500-year event” and referred to as “historic” and “unprecedented”. The press has a short memory. In reality, it was Houston’s third such flooding event in