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Science Podcasts:
Listen here Science Podcast, January 15, 2010 – A new catalyst that captures carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
Listen here Science Podcast, January 22, 2010- Predicting more intense hurricanes in the Atlantic
Listen here Science Podcast, November 13, 2009- Climate change predictions
Listen here Science Podcast, September 25, 2009- Challenges for carbon capture and storage
Kennedy v. Blankenship debate
Robert Kennedy Jr. is a passionate environmentalist and attorney, who has been arguing for years that coal is destroying Appalachia and the climate. Don Blankenship is the head of the biggest coal company in the south, Massey Energy, responsible for coal mining mountaintop removal and the mining of much of the coal that is polluting the country. Kennedy has been publicly speaking out against Massey and Blankenship for years, and the two finally debated on January 22nd at the University of Charleston. It’s a fascinating and maddening debate, and I am in awe of people who can debate polluters like Blankenship, who is a climate criminal, and keep their cool. Kennedy remains logical and puts forth his case very well and very passionately. He has 100X the facts that Blankenship has.
Download or Listen to the whole debate here. (81.5 MB)
Peter B Collins interview of TOM BLEES — 11-25-08
Tom Blees, author of Prescription For The Planet talks about Integral Fast Reactors as a source of safe, clean power. Harvey Wasserman, journalist, activist and author of Solartopia!: Our Green-Powered Earth joins the conversation in the 2nd half of the hour.
Download or listen below.
November 27, 2009: This is part II of the Jon Krosnick talk on public opinion on global warming. (just click to download in a new window.) Part I was included in the FN47 podcast of November 25 2009. He gave this talk in late 2008. (download here)
The American Public’s Views of Global Climate Change
Description:
Public opinion on climate change has shifted dramatically over the past 20 years, thanks to intense media coverage about global warming – coverage that, for better or worse, shaped both popular attitudes and the national political debate. Social Scientist Jon Krosnick of Stanford University argues that Americans’ perceptions of climate change were severely distorted for years because so many journalists portrayed global-warming research as a heated argument between rival factions instead of what it actually was: namely, a growing body of shared knowledge. Krosnick’s analysis is an eye-opening look at how Americans know what they know, and why they believe what they believe.
[...] I’m always telling people to go to look at the NASA website, which you can find at that link. There is also the NOAA website on climate change, and this one which is a hybrid, which was written in conjunction with NASA for the purpose of educating the public. Here is an official global climate change website from the U.S. government. There are hundreds of other websites that also contain data and links but these are some of the most useful and irrefutable. They are not right-wing or left-wing, they are not political at all. Another great resource I was recently reminded of are the podcasts explaining climate change put out by the Colorado School of Mines. You can get their podcasts called “Earth and Environmental Systems“ about global warming, here on iTunes, and they are very educational. (not all the episodes are about climate change, but the ones from about 21-30 are.) These podcasts are excellent, and done by scientists in language that is easy to understand. (I will upload them to my CF website for people who don’t want to get them from iTunes. When I do that, they will appear listed on the Climate Files website). [...]