Jeff Nesbit, executive director of Climate Nexus, talks about the massive worldwide adjustments necessary to fix the problem – and what role a carbon tax might play.
Read moreThat Time We Could Have Fixed Global Warming
Scientists began to understand the potential dangers of climate change in the 1980’s, yet that understanding wasn’t put into action. Writer Nathaniel Rich joins us to talk about why.
Read moreA City-Based Solution To Climate Change
Carl Pope, former head of the Sierra Club, joins us to talk about why environmentalists should look beyond elected officials for action on climate change.
Read moreThe Future Of Health In A Warming World
Dr. Paul Auerbach of Stanford University Medical School talks about the effect that rising temperatures has on the well-being of people.
Read moreIs Anyone Out There?
Astrophysicist Adam Frank joins us to talk about the theory that over-population and climate change are actually the natural demise of civilizations – possibly even ones that existed on other planets.
Read moreThe Upside Of Climate Change
Chris Thomas, a professor of conservation biology at the University of York, joins us to explain how humans have changed the natural world in positive ways.
Read more“An Inconvenient Truth” Revisited
Directors Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk join us to talk about their new film “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power.”
Read moreNational Parks In Peril
Environmentalist Terry Tempest Williams joins us to talk about how we can better care for national parks.
Read moreDrilling In Canada’s Tar Sands
Journalist Neela Banerjee and Alan Jeffers of Exxon, join us to talk about the effect that drilling for oil in Alberta will have on climate change.
Read moreThe Race to Remake Civilization
We’re talking about scientists, elected officials and philanthropists working to save the world with TED science curator David Biello, author of “The Unnatural World: The Race to Remake Civilization in Earth’s Newest Age.”
Read moreThe Future Of Urban Life
This hour, we’ll talk about how cities can deal with climate change, income equality and other challenges with Jonathan Rose, author of “The Well-Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life” (Harper Wave).
Read moreThe Problem With Warming Oceans
This hour, we’ll talk about recent mass fatalities of marine wildlife due to warming seas with Craig Welch. His article, “The Blob That Cooked the Pacific,” appears in the September 2016 issue of National Geographic.
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