The RADIO ECOSHOCK Show

Alex Smith

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    Radio Ecoshock: No One Expects the Southern Ocean
    Scientists find a control knob for climate feedbacks in the Southern Ocean. Two experts with years of research and publications: Dr. Zach Kaufman at Scripps Institute in San Diego, and Professor Richard Williams, University of Liverpool. The Southern Ocean stores most heat and  …
    17 December 2025, 9:32 pm
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    Radio Ecoshock: Danger Zone
    Are we ending this civilization? Climate warnings from 8 top scientists in the UK Emergency Briefing. First two new interviews: Prof. Brian Soden: phenomenal heat burst of 2023/24 NOT caused by change in ship pollution regs. Harvard’s Dr. Cheng He: “Escalated Heatwave Mortality  …
    10 December 2025, 11:27 pm
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    Radio Ecoshock: Harsh Weather
    Expect weather whiplash – drought to floods in a predictable see-saw of disasters. Dr. Malte Stuecker’s team finds El Nino and La Nina get stronger – changing the North Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Over 50,000 Europeans died due to excess heat in 2023  …
    3 December 2025, 10:46 pm
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    Radio Ecoshock: Polar Change – Global Ripples
    Could a rapid change in microbes unbalance world systems? Biologist Trond Kristiansen. From Montreal, scientist Scott Sugden reviews “Current and projected effects of climate change in cryosphere microbial ecosystems”. From COP30 Brazil, permafrost thaw is NOW. Worrying news from scientists Gustaf Hugelius, Christina  …
    27 November 2025, 12:56 am
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    Radio Ecoshock: Cosmic Dust & Cognition
    Cosmic dust reveals a hidden history of past sea-ice – does it predict a crash of Arctic Ocean life? Stimulating new science with Dr. Frank Pavia, University of Washington. Then “The normalization of (almost) everything” with computational cognitive scientist Rachit Dubey.
    19 November 2025, 11:00 pm
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    Radio Ecoshock: The Dark
    Everybody pushing biofuels to save climate. Guest Cian Delaney from European NGO hub T&E finds these green alternatives could be worse than the fossil fuels they replace. With extreme wildfires, heatwaves, and hurricanes author and researcher Susannah Fisher on her new book “SINK  …
    12 November 2025, 10:15 pm
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    Radio Ecoshock: Thousand Year Storms
    In the world of storms, there is before and after Melissa. Jamaica, insurance, hard times and lucky breaks this week on Radio Ecoshock. Hurricane Melissa with famous meteorologist John Morales in Miami and hurricane blogger Dr. Jeff Masters. Plus a short clip from  …
    5 November 2025, 10:26 pm
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    Radio Ecoshock: Tipping Madness
    Here is how worried scientists are about tipping points: 160 scientists from 23 countries just released “The Global Tipping Points Report 2025”. Planetary shifts already in motion. Dr. Steven R. Smith, research Fellow at the Global Systems Institute on planetary-scale risks. Then provocative  …
    29 October 2025, 11:31 pm
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    Radio Ecoshock: Events Closer Than They Appear
    From New Zealand and the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research, Dr. Kevin Trenberth talks ocean heating, new science and his provocative new article. But first we run away to the past. Oregon State University Professor Peter Clark just published “Global mean sea  …
    22 October 2025, 9:29 pm
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    Radio Ecoshock: Casino of Climate Change
    Is Earth a casino of chance where catastrophe decides the survivors? Dive in with this timely replay interview with climate extinction expert Dr. Peter Ward. A new study finds 41,000 Americans die due to wildfire smoke. That almost doubles by 2050, with economic  …
    16 October 2025, 12:14 am
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    Radio Ecoshock: Big Car, Red Tide
    Driving around? Are you dying to get there? Nobody will tell you – except investigative journalist, film-maker and author David Obst. Hear it all as David talks about his new book “Saving Ourselves from Big Car”. What suddenly kills dolphins and millions of  …
    8 October 2025, 9:48 pm
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