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Richard Heinberg
PEAK EVERYTHING
Richard Heinberg has influenced the work of those who are searching for a way out of today's interlocking crisis of climate, finance and resource depletion. I visited him in Sept. 2010 at a crucial moment. He had just written the new preface for his 2007 book Peak Everything, Waking Up to the Century of Declines. Analyzing the events of the past three years Heinberg writes in his update that the question of when we will reach the peak of the resources that we made ourselves dependent on has finally been answered - and the time is NOW. The economic crisis, he says, is not a dip from which we will recover. Humanity has achieved an unsustainable pinnacle of population size and consumption rates, and our species needs to learn right now to live within the resource limits of the Earth.

This interview brings up the intriguing history of the limits to growth movement, what other energy sources and raw material are close to peak, the need to reform the financial system and the growth imperative built into policy. Heinberg's work inspired the transition town movement - and he gives a brief survey of the recent successes.

Heinberg is the author of eight other books, including The Party’s Over, and Blackout, Coal, Climate, and the Last Energy Crisis. He is currently Senior Fellow-in-Residence at Post Carbon Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to building more resilient, sustainable, and equitable communities. His appearance in the movies: The End of Suburbia and Leonardo  DiCaprio’s 11th Hour popularized and demystified the concept of peak oil and so many other diminishing resources.
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Julia Whitty
For Love and Protection of the Deep Ocean - on the impact of the BP oil spill
Julia Whitty is a diver, former nature documentary filmmaker, author and investigative journalist. As environmental correspondent for Mother Jones she had just returned from the Gulf Coast. She wrote: "BP and its partners reckless quest has endangered and perhaps condemned not just the Gulf Coast, but the largest, richest, most pristine, most biologically important, and last completely unprotected ecosystem left on Earth: the deep ocean."

Julia Whitty explains why the deep ocean is the foundation of life for the upper layer of the sunlit sea. Many whales, dolphins, seals, sea turtles, sharks, manta rays, and smaller predatory fish are nocturnal hunters, dependent on the movements of a vast community of organisms that live in the deep ocean. That community is known as the Deep Scattering Layer. And this Deep Scattering Layer that rises and falls with day and night and that is visited by the creatures of the sunlit sea is threatened by the invisible part of the gigantic out-pour that never came to the surface because it was hit by chemical dispersant and now made doubly invisible by the White House climate and energy adviser, Carol Browner, who claims that 75% of the oil has already disappeared.

But researchers and divers report on huge clouds of dispersed oil, and of dissolved natural gas and methane that remain below the surface and now move around the gulf. These toxic clouds are separating the creatures of the deep ocean from those in the twilight and sunlit zones. And wherever the clouds of oil and gas move in, the creatures from above and below have to travel through the poisonous brew twice in one day to survive.

The second part of the program has a more personal cast. After reading from her new book, Deep Blue Home, the amazing story of the encounter with an ancient iceberg while diving off Newfoundland, Whitty responds to a rich variety of questions about diving, close encounters with sea life, the invisible rivers that flow beneath the surface of the seas, coral reefs - and more.

You can reach Julia Whitty here: WEBSITE <julia.whitty.googlepages.com> BLOG <deepbluehome.blogspot.com> You can see a 9 minute excerpt of my film of this presentation on: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3EMIco5nf0>
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GASLAND
Resistance to drilling in the Marcellus Shale
Six weeks into the BP oil disaster President Obama said we need to move to natural gas as a clean fuel alternative. Material from the trailer to the movie GASLAND and voices from DamascusCitizens.org call that into question. They say that chemicals used in the process of hydraulic fracturing and set free in drilling have poisoned water and air. A grassroots movement is resisting the encroachment of gas drilling into Pennsylvania and upstate New York. 

They encounter two problems: The fossil fuel industry was exempted from the clean air and safe drinking water act under the Bush administration, and corporations do not need to disclose what chemicals they use. Test results from drinking water in people's homes and from spills and sediment in evaporation ponds at drill sites have now identified 247 out of over 300 chemicals and they include carcinogens, mutagens, and neurotoxins.

Josh Fox, for his movie GASLAND, reports from 24 states on the impacts of chemical hydraulic fracturing. He uncovered water that can be lit on fire right out of the tap, talks to chronically ill residents of drilling areas from many different locations in the US, describes pools of toxic waste that kill cattle and vegetation, and well blowouts and gas explosions.

Natural Gas, in the eyes of oil service corporations such as Halliburton, and the stock market, is in it's tenth year of an unprecedented boom. The US, they say, is the Saudi Arabia of natural gas with 450,000 gas wells already operating in over 32 states and aggressively expanding. This program tries to capture some of the imagination and determination of the local people in this David and Goliath confrontation.

Part ONE: Josh Fox from his trailer for the movie GASLAND and Barbara Arrindell and Joe Levine from Damascus Citizens, interviewed by Fred Pecora, producer at WJFF. <http://www.damascuscitizens.org/> <http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/>
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Silvia Ribeiro
GEOENGINEERING THE PLANET
Addressing the effects, not the causes, of climate change
Geo-engineers are proposing large scale global projects to reduce solar radiation. They want to force the oceans into absorbing more CO2 through "fertilization", and they work on carbon sequestration and weather modification.  

Dr. Lonnie Thompson
MELTING OF THE HIGH MOUNTAIN GLACIERS OF THE WORLD
Abrupt Climate Change and Our Future
Dr. Thompson issues a warning that the mountain glaciers he knows and loves are melting ever more dramatically just within the year of 2007. He is the leading expert on glaciers with 30 years of on location research.

Dr. Lonnie Thompson saw one of the first ice cores that was recovered from a glacier when he was in graduate school. He was fascinated by the amount of data on earth history, past climate and world changing events that can be read from these ice cores and made the exploration of ice his life's work. He now teaches in the Department of Geological Sciences and is Senior Research Scientists at the Byrd Polar Center at Ohio State University.

In three decades he has explored most of the mountain glaciers of this world, has learned their history going back tens of thousands of years via the ice cores he and his team drilled at altitudes that no helicopter can reach. He came to San Francisco in early December 2007 to issue this warning.

Thompson was the honored speaker at the December 2007 meeting of the American Geophysical Union. The hotel where Dr. Thompson spoke recorded the event for the AGU. This is the only other audio or visual record of this amazing talk.

The melting of the world's glaciers is an unfolding emergency. This archival program was updated in December 2009 using the following information:
Dr. Lonnie Thompson's most recent research on Mount Kilimanjaro was published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PNAS (11/3/09)
<http://www.pnas.org/content/106/47/19743.full?sid=4051f11f-1c2f-4182-98be-e2dddd593820>

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WITNESS TO THE MELTING OF THE GREENLAND ICE
An Inuit elder speaks
Recorded in a tent during a rainstorm
by Cien Fuegos in July, 2007
in the Valley of the Ancients on Greenland.

When I first heard his voice in 2007 I wished I could move radio stations to play this recording every day to show that voices like his can reach us and inspire us to recognize our common future. But even though there is enough water bound up in the melting Greenland ice sheet to raise sea level by 21 feet and drown the cities of London and New York this program had very limited distribution. That's why I decided to play his appeal again - two years later as the Inuit of the circumpolar regions appeal to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. They want the world to pay attention to the one region of the world where climate change is the most rapid and has accelerated since Ithluk spoke.

Derrick Jensen:
BRINGING DOWN CIVILIZATION
Derrick Jensen wrote in his early book: “Listening to the Land”: “We are members of the most destructive culture ever to exist. Our assault on the natural world, on indigenous and other cultures, on women, on children, on all of us through the possibility of nuclear suicide --all these are unprecedented in their magnitude and ferocity." And he follows that with a question: “Why do we act as we do? What are sane and effective responses to outrageously destructive behavior? What will it take for us to stop the horrors that characterize our way of  being? My work and life revolve around these questions. “

Arjun Makhjijani and David Freeman
IS NUCLEAR POWER COMING BACK?
- and do we need a police state to live with it?
Pres. Obama's energy secretary, Steven Chu, says he will streamline loan guarantees to build nuclear and coal fired power plants. This puts nuclear power on the watch list for the Obama administration.

This program features one of the great orators and elders of the anti nuclear movement. David Freeman shut down 8 of their 14 reactors while heading the Tennessee Valley Authority under Pres. Carter. He calls nuclear a failed technology and says that, in the age of terrorism, we need a police state to guard those Trojan horses.

Preceding Freeman's comment you will hear from Dr. Arjun Makhijani. He holds a degree in engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked on plasma physics and controlled nuclear fusion. He is the principal editor and co-author of NUCLEAR WASTELANDS, the first global assessment of the effects of nuclear weapons production. He addresses the issues of nuclear proliferation and why nuclear technologies have spread in spite of the efforts, begun in the early 1960s to dismantle the existing weapons stockpiles.

Both speakers were attending a November 2005 conference organized by Dr. Helen Caldicott to deter the Bush administration from building new nuclear power plants. This is an updated version as a reminder to the current administration.

This program contains a chilling quote from Sen. Obama indicating that he is aware of the problems associated with nuclear power. (Source: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRxl2cVFTLw> "I don't think there is anything that we inevitably dislike about nuclear power - we just dislike the fact that it might blow up and irradiate us and kill us."
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Bill McKibben on DEEP ECONOMY
A talk and conversation with Michael Pollan
Bill McKibben’s book: ‘The End of Nature’ is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change. Published in 1989, it has been printed in more than 20 languages.  He has since written on localization, alternative energy, and the risks associated with human genetic engineering. In his most recent book: ‘Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future’ he envisions a transition to local-scale enterprise.

McKibben and his family live in Vermont. He is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College where he launched the campaign: stepitup2007, demanding that global warming pollution be cut 80 percent by 2050. McKibben spoke in Berkeley in March 2007. The church was filled to capacity with an enthusiastic crowd. He was joined on stage by a colleague and fellow author, Michael Pollan, author of “The Omnivore's Dilemma”, and “Botany of Desire”.
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Restoring a Forest
- with fire and love
Dennis Martinez
Church and military records show that in the early 19th century California's forests were not "wild" but carefully tended. The catastrophic wildfires of today were extremely rare. Dennis Martinez talks about Indian forest practice and restoration. He has worked for 35 years in eco-cultural restoration specializing in tribal lands and cultural issues. Contact him at <http://www.ser.org/iprn/founder.asp>

The forest at the Mountain Grove Center For New Education, near Glendale in SW Oregon was clear-cut in the 1930s and 40s. It has come back thick, young, and dark. When Indians cared for the land the old growth incense cedars and chinquapins were spaced widely, plants thrived on the sun-lit forest floor, and animals found shelter and food. Dennis Martinez knows about Indian forest practice and was restoring this land when I interviewed him in 1996.
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Dr. Hermann Ott, Mary Anne Hitt, Jutta Kill and Dr. Arjun Makhijani
CONFRONTING THE GLOBAL TRIPLE CRISIS
False Solutions to Peak Oil and Climate Change
In September of 2007 the International Forum on Globalization held a Teach in Washington DC on climate change, peak oil and global resource depletion & extinction. <http://www.ifg.org>

Several Panel meetings addressed the many false solutions to the climate crisis that may be accelerating the danger rather than alleviating it. Coal for example is now promoted as a substitute for oil and promises for the capture of the carbon are made that are not yet possible with current technologies and may never be available on a large scale.

Dr. Hermann Ott is head of the Berlin office of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy. He is the co-author of the book: The Kyoto Protocol International Climate Policy for the 21st Century. From the Appalachian mountains came Mary Anne Hitt. She lives and works at the center of one of the large unreported ecological tragedies of out time. In surface mines, some the size of New York's Manhattan, whole mountain ranges are blown off to strip mine the coal. Mary Anne Hitt is Executive Director of Appalachian Voices. Go to their web site at  <http://www.appvoices.org>and to a sister web site <http://www.Ilovemountains.org>. There you can see aerial photos of the Appalachian mines and photos of the forests, streams and mountains before they were demolished. 

Jutta Kill is a climate campaigner and activist for FERN, an NGO based in Europe. A participant in the Durban Group's critique of carbon trading she eloquently describes how the system favors large corporations and will prevent a transition to renewable energy production. Dr. Arjun Makhijani argues against the resurgence of nuclear power. He holds a Ph.D. in engineering, specializing in nuclear fusion, from U.C. Berkeley. He is the principal author of the first study ever done (and completed in 1971) on the energy conservation potential in the U.S. economy.

The speakers were recorded at the Confronting the Global Triple Crisis teach in, organized by the International Forum on Globalization, in Washington DC in September 15, 2007. The teach in was recorded by Conference Recording Services in Berkeley, California <http://www.conferencerecording.com/>.
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Vandana Shiva, Maude Barlow & Daphne Wysham
CONFRONTING THE GLOBAL TRIPLE CRISIS
In September of 2007 the International Forum on Globalization held a Teach in Washington DC on climate change, peak oil and global resource depletion & extinction

Vandana Shiva had just witnessed the arctic melt on Greenland and speaks eloquently about the destructive forces of globalization that are driving the ecological crisis. She also sheds light on the effects of rapid economic growth in her home country, India.

Maude Barlow has completed a new book, entitled: Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and The Coming Battle for the Right to Water. She explains how we are losing water through pollution, over-pumping and displacement while the demands for water are rising. She names the corporations that are in the process of capturing water sources – the new Blue Gold.

Daphne Wysham of the Institute for Policy Studies speaks on the World Bank's destructive role in driving climate change. She lays out in great detail how the system of carbon trading came about and how the World Bank is funding destructive development in fossil fuels - and she talks about solutions.
Contact the IFG at <http://www.ifg.org>
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Dr. James Hansen
THE THREAT TO THE PLANET
How can we avoid dangerous human-made climate change
Dr. James Hansen is one of the few scientists who have consistently warned that the impact that humans have on the climate is bringing about changes that are faster than we ever believed and may be irreversible if action is not taken now. Hansen is Director of the NASA Institute for Space Studies in New York City, and he teaches at Columbia. Since the late 1970s, he has worked on studies of the Earth's climate. He has run afoul of government censors since the 1980s. Repeatedly his testimony before Congress was suppressed or re-written. 

Hansen says that the unprecedented and rising amounts of greenhouse gases added each year AND the speed at which we are altering the energy balance of the earth are completely out of the range of proven earth history of hundreds of thousands of years. Hansen fears that we may soon be reaching feedback mechanism or tipping points such as the melting of the ice sheets that has already begun on Greenland and West Antarctica.

In part one of this program Hansen gives a fascinating account of the earth's climate history, in part two he talks about solutions. Dr. Hansen's work - including the slide projections for this talk, can be found at <http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1>

I added a third program, a collection of the most intriguing questions from the audience and answers, by Hansen, on issues such as sea level rise, hurricanes, interglacials, and the ongoing censorship of climate scientists by the Bush administration.
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Interviews with DR. JAMES HANSEN, NASA and DR. HERMANN SCHEER,
World Council for Renewable Energy and member of the German Parliament

Dr. James Hansen is one of the few climate scientists who has consistently warned that the impact that humans have on the climate is bringing about changes that are faster than we ever believed and maybe irreversible if action is not taken now. Hansen is Director of the NASA Institute for Space Studies in New York City, a division of the Goddard Space Flight Center. <http://www.giss.nasa.gov/> Since the late 1970s, he has worked on studies and computer simulations of the Earth's climate.

Hansen has run afoul of government censors since the 1980s when he was asked to testify before Congress. He found that the record of his testimony had been re-written. His testimony to Vice President Cheney and other cabinet members in 2001 was ignored. In early 2006 officials at NASA headquarters ordered the public affairs staff to review Hansen’s coming lectures, papers, postings on the Goddard Web site and requests for interviews from journalists.

I interviewed Hansen <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hansen> after his lecture at the December 2006 meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.

Dr. Hermann Scheer
A large industrialized country already gets 10% of their electricity from renewable sources. And if the present rate of conversion is maintained, this country will have phased out nuclear and fossil fuels within the next 50 years. And this country, Germany, is not even blessed with abundant wind or sun. Germany, for 15 years now, has shown the determinations to move away from centralized to decentralized power, from commercial to non-commercial energy production, and to come up with solutions to climate change, peak oil and the dangers of nuclear power. <http://www.german-renewable-energy.com/Renewables/Navigation/Englisch/root.html>

At the root of these developments is the German Renewable Energy Act, the EEG. It started as a one page act passed by the German parliament in 1990. It was simple and based on three concepts: Free access to the grid to all producers, the obligation for utilities to purchase, and guaranteed fixed prices for each producer in accordance with their cost of production and state of technology. The lead author of the Renewable Energy Act is Dr. Hermann Scheer, chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy, now serving his 6th term as elected member of the German Parliament.

I interviewed Scheer <http://www.hermannscheer.de/en/>on February 16 in the noisy courtyard of his hotel in Palo Alto, CA.
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MONSANTO VS. PERCY SCHMEISER
Report on the lawsuit that challenges the ownership of life by corporations
Percy Schmeiser and Ignacio Chapela
Monsanto, the giant multinational agro-chemical company, sued Percy Schmeiser over the presence of their patented canola that had invaded the edges of Schmeiser's field from a neighbor's plot. The Schmeiser case has become one of the most watched and most important cases for organic farmers, seed savers, for the movement against the invasion of the biosphere by genetically modified plants, and against corporate ownership of life.

Schmeiser was recorded in Ukiah, CA, in November 2006. He gave a report of his multi-year legal battle to save his land and home, and his 50 year legacy as plant breeder from being seized by Monsanto over 12 pounds of invading seeds. After two shattering losses in court he finally won a partial victory in the Canadian Supreme Court. However the court upheld Monsanto's patent rights - even when their genetically modified canola invades another field or cross pollinates with organic or pedigree canola or even their relatives. Any invaded organism becomes the property of Monsanto as well. Under globalization the patent rights may apply to the US as well.

Percy Schmeiser is a Canadian farmer from Bruno, Saskatchewan. He took over the family farm in 1947. He and his wife are known on the Prairies as seed savers. Over 50 years they developed a canola seed that was resistant to disease and lost their life's work by contamination from genetically modified canola. <http://www.percyschmeiser.com>

In part TWO Percy Schmeiser shares the stage with Ignacio Chapela, from UC Berkeley. In October 2000 Chapela discovered the contamination of Mexican corn with Monsanto GMO corn. 
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WHAT MAKES OUR LIGHTS GO ON?
The environmental impacts of large dams and reservoirs
Jacques Leslie is a foreign correspondent turned non-fiction writer who once covered the war on Vietnam for the Los Angeles Times. When he did a cover story for Harper's Magazine, entitled "Running Dry: What Happens When the World No Longer Has Enough Freshwater?" he began a lasting involvement with the environmental and political issues of water. What Jacques Leslie discovered when he wrote for Harper’s was that “At the core of every argument about water are dams, the modern pyramids, generators of extravagantly apportioned electricity, water storage, and environmental and social disasters …“

Some dams are so huge that they can be seen from space. Dams have shifted so much weight towards the equator that geophysicists believe they have slightly altered the speed of the earth's rotation the tilt of its axis, and the shape of its gravitational field.
Jacques Leslie http://www.jacquesleslie.com/ is the author of: Deep Water, The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment. He was recorded at Book Passage in Corte Madera, CA.

A battle is being fought by independent scientists and those employed by the hydropower industry over the discovery that reservoirs behind the world's dams are a source of global warming pollution. In the case of big reservoirs in the tropics -- where most new dams are proposed -- hydropower can actually emit more greenhouse gases per kilowatt-hour than fossil fuels, including dirty coal.

The worst example studied by an independent scientist, the Balbina Dam in the Brazilian Amazon, had a climate impact in 1990 equal to an astonishing 54 natural gas plants generating the same amount of power.

Patrick McCully is the author of Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the United Nations Environment Programme’s Dams and Development Project - and the Executive Director of the International Rivers Network. <http://www.irn.org/> I interviewed him right after his return from the November 2006 UN negotiations on global climate in Nairobi.
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MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL IN KENTUCKY
What makes our lights go on?
In September 2006 the poet Wendell Berry, in the company of two members of Kentuckians For The Commonwealth, came to Marin County in Northern California. Coal companies have destroyed one million acres of mountain land and forests and buried 700 miles of streams in order to strip mine coal. Much of that coal is used to produce electricity.

Part ONE: Wendell Berry and Michael Pollan
Part TWO: Teri Blanton and Burt Lauderdale of Kentuckians For The Commonwealth

Wendell Berry grew up on a farm in Kentucky, taught creative writing in college and returned to farming in 1965. He is a prolific author of novels, short stories, poems, and essays. Michael Pollan has written books and articles about food, agriculture, and gardens. He is the author of “The Omnivore’s  LaDilemma” Burt Lauderdale is executive director of Kentuckians For The Commonwealth. Teri Blanton works to fight mountaintop removal on their project called "The Canary Project". The event was recorded by Paul Knight for KWMR and sponsored by Marin Organic, an organization committed to turning Marin County into the first all organic county in the country.
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Dangers of Climate Change
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This SIX-part series is based on audio recordings of the Hadley Centre/MET Office/Exeter/England
In early February of 2005 a headline appeared in the London Independent. It said: "How Mankind Is Sleepwalking to The End Of The Earth; floods, storms and droughts, melting Arctic ice, shrinking glaciers, oceans turning to acid. The world's top scientists warned last week that dangerous climate change is taking place today, not the day after tomorrow." The award winning environmental writer Geoffrey Lean wrote these words.

The conference was called: Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change and it was held by request of the British Government. In order to counter the refusal of the United States to acknowledge the urgency of the issue of climate change they brought together 200 respected scientist from the fields of ecology, glaciology, meteorology, and oceanography.
Find the notes by the Hadley Centre at <http://www.stabilisation2005.com/programme.html>
Find the IPCC at  <http://www.ipcc.ch/> 

Find out about the expose in Mother Jones
As the World Burns, By Bill McKibben, Chris Mooney, & Ross Gelbspan
Think tanks and journalists funded by ExxonMobil are out to convince you global warming is a hoax
http://www.motherjones.com/toc/2005/05/index.html

Douglas Quin recorded the sounds of breaking ice in the Antarctic
http://www.antarctica2000.net/frameset.html

PROGRAM ONE
Opening Address: Professor Stephen Schneider (Part 1 of 6)
Interview with the Director of the British Antarctic Survey (Part 2 of 6)
Professor Stephen Schneider gave the opening address at the Hadley Centre conference on Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change on February 1, 2005. Stephen Schneider is professor of biological sciences at Stanford University. He co-directs Stanford's Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources. He is doing research on ecological and economic implications of climate change; climatic modeling, the carbon dioxide "greenhouse effect", and environmental consequences of nuclear war.
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Prof. Chris Rapley, Director of the British Antarctic Survey, <http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/> addresses the accelerated warming on the Antarctic Peninsula and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. That includes news from the breaking ice sheets (Larsen A and B and other) and the melting of the coastal glaciers.
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PROGRAM TWO
Global Warming on Greenland (Part 3 of 6)
Possible Collapse of the Gulf Stream (Part 4 of 6)
Is the melting we are seeing today the precursor of a major deglaciation of Greenland or a momentary anomaly. How fast will this process unfold and can deglaciation be stopped if it begins accelerating due to internal feedback mechanisms. Also, according to the Hadley Centre models:  Even after CO2 levels are brought under control the oceans will keep expanding – raising the sea levels around the world - the question is for how long.
With Jason Lowe, Hadley Centre and Jay Zwally, NASA.
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The possible collapse of the Gulf Stream, leading to a dramatic cooling of Europe, was considered a "high impact - low probability" event. Recent data show that there is now a 70% chance of collapse due to global warming. Michael Schlesinger is Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He directs the UIUC Climate Research Group within the Department of Atmospheric Sciences. 
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PROGRAM THREE
The Impacts on Oceans and Land (Part 5 of 6)
The Bush Wars on Climate Science (Part 6 of 6)
Scientist have recently discovered that about half of the man-made carbon dioxide produced by fossil-fuel burning has been absorbed by the oceans. CO2 reacts with sea water to form carbonic acid and that lowers the ph level of the water and makes the oceans more acidic. Today the ph level of the oceans is already 0.1 unit lower than before the industrial revolution. These  changes are accelerating the extinction of marine life from plankton to cod to coral reefs.

Dr. Carol Turley, head of science of the Plymouth Marine Laboratory, talks about the impact of the increasing acidification of the world's oceans. She said that the ph level of the oceans had remained incredibly constant for thousands, if not millions of years. Now about 400 billion tons of fossil fuel CO2 have been absorbed by the oceans

You can see Carol Turley's slide show (1.6 Mb) on the web site of the Hadley Centre
http://www.stabilisation2005.com/day1/Turley.pdf

Professor Rik Leemans from the Environmental Sciences Department of Wageningen University in Holland directs projects on global biodiversity. He presents studies of birds, fish, insects, lichen and plants and their struggle for survival under global changes in growing seasons and distribution.

Animals and plants are on the move everywhere. They try to move north or up mountains to avoid warming or they follow the warming trends if they benefit from warm weather. Changes in the oceans are especially fast. Some plankton species have already moved north by up to 1000 kilometers. Some warm-water fish are moving into the warming seas at a rate of 250 kilometers every 10 years. Extinction rates are high among those unable to move and among those who no longer find the other species they depend on in the new environment.
You can see Rik Leemans slide show (3.1 Mb) on the web site of the Hadley Centre
http://www.stabilisation2005.com/day1/leemans.pdf

IS NUCLEAR POWER COMING BACK?
A four-part mini-series based on a briefing, on November 7 and 8, 2005,
by Dr. Helen Caldicott's organization, the Nuclear Policy Research Institute
http://www.nuclearpolicy.org/
You can order single CDs below or get the set of this series at a reduced rate:
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For a 32 page TRANSCRIPT of the full series PLUS the amazing talk by Noam Chomsky on the
ARMAGEDDON OF OUR OWN MAKING click here: $10.00
Anti nuclear campaigner Dr. Helen Caldicott invited scientists, members of the Bush administration, and journalists for a two-day conference to address the following issues:  What is the connection between nuclear power and war, what is the safety record of nuclear power plants, and what is their effect on the people living around them? And what lies behind the claim of the Bush administration that nuclear power plants are being brought back to ward off global warming?

In domestic and foreign policy, in legislation and funding priorities, the Bush administration has begun a major shift towards building new nuclear power plants and nuclear fuel reprocessing sites; technologies that were abandoned in the US decades ago. The energy bill, passed in the fall of 2005,, set aside $8.7 billion for the nuclear, oil, and coal industries while offering only $1.3 billion for alternative fuels. Some have asked why the oil industry, with record high profits needs a $1.6 billion subsidy. Not enough critics have investigated the biggest line item of them all: the unprecedented $4.3 billion to the nuclear industry.


A281/Part ONE:
IS NUCLEAR POWER COMING BACK?
Congressman Ed Markey (D. Mass.)
Rep. Ed Markey on the status of waste disposal at Yucca Mountain, on the Bush administration's violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and on massive subsidies to the nuclear industry.

Congressman Ed Markey was first elected to Congress in 1976, and has fought against nuclear proliferation and for environmental protection. Rep. Markey and Dr. Caldicott are friends and have worked together on the Nuclear Freeze and in the aftermath of the 1979 accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Middletown, Pennsylvania.
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A281/Part TWO:
NUCLEAR RADIATION'S IMPACT ON LIFE
Dan Hirsch (Committee to Bridge the Gap), Dr. Helen Caldicott (Nuclear Policy Research Institute), and David Richardson (School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina)
On the efforts of Homeland Security and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to raise allowable exposure levels, and on the biological effects of radiation. We now have ample evidence, gathered in the last 60 years, of how nuclear radiation harms life. All radiation is cumulative; there are no safe levels. Radiation causes cancers in organs, glands, bones and blood.

But this issue is about more than the individual deaths from cancer.  Radiation affects by mutation the genetic heritage each of us carries in our DNA. The future of life is present today within the bodies of living people, animals and plants -- the whole seed-bearing biosphere.  We are now altering these carefully evolved seeds by randomly damaging them, and passing on that damage to future generations.

Dan Hirsch is president and co-founder of the Committee to Bridge the Gap, a nuclear watchdog group that provides technical and legal assistance to communities near existing or proposed nuclear power projects.

Dr. Helen Caldicott explains in detail how radiation damages life. She is president of the Nuclear Policy Research Institute and the author of numerous books on nuclear and environmental issues. Her book, Nuclear Power is not the Solution to Global Warming will be published in the fall of 2006.

David Richardson is assistant professor of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He specializes in long-term effects of radiation exposure.
http://www.nuclearpolicy.org/
http://www.committeetobridgethegap.org/
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A282/Part THREE
ROUTINE RELEASES FROM NUCLEAR REACTORS
Kay Drey (NIRS), and David Lochbaum (Union of Concerned Scientists)
Very few people know that nuclear power plants routinely release highly radioactive substances into the environment. Even accidents at the 103 U.S. plants hardly ever get reported.

Kay Drey is a Board member of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS). Since 1974 she has worked on hazards from so-called routine releases of radioactive gases and wastewater from nuclear power plants. You can find out more about her work at <http://www.nirs.org>

David Lochbaum began his career as nuclear engineer a few months after the Three Mile Island meltdown. For the next 17 years he worked at nuclear power plants in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Kansas, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, and Connecticut. Now he is a senior scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists where he monitors the performance of all US nuclear power plants.
For a broadcast quality mp3 version of Part THREE click HERE


A282/Part FOUR
NUCLEAR POWER FOR A POLICE STATE
Or: A Police State for Nuclear Power?
Dr. Arjun Makhijani and David Freeman
When David Freeman became the head of the Tennessee Valley authority 30 years ago he halted construction of eight nuclear power plants. Today he warns that nuclear power is a failed technology and that it takes a police state to live with it.

Freeman has dealt with nuclear power plants and public utilities all his life. An engineer and lawyer, he was energy adviser to President Jimmy Carter. He held top positions at the New York Power Authority, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Lower Colorado River Authority and the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD). During his tenure in Sacramento Freeman initiated the nation's most intensive utility conservation program, including electric vehicle, wind and solar programs.

Dr. Arjun Makhijani holds a degree in engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked on plasma physics and controlled nuclear fusion. He is the principal editor and co-author of Nuclear Wastelands, the first global assessment of the health and environmental effects of nuclear weapons production. Dr. Makhijani addresses the issue of nuclear proliferation and why nuclear technologies have spread in spite of the efforts, begun in the early 1960s, to dismantle existing weapons stockpiles.
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Derrick Jensen:
BRINGING DOWN CIVILIZATION
Derrick Jensen wrote in his early book: “Listening to the Land”: “We are members of the most destructive culture ever to exist. Our assault on the natural world, on indigenous and other cultures, on women, on children, on all of us through the possibility of nuclear suicide --all these are unprecedented in their magnitude and ferocity." And he follows that with a question: “Why do we act as we do? What are sane and effective responses to outrageously destructive behavior? What will it take for us to stop the horrors that characterize our way of  being? My work and life revolve around these questions. “

FAST FOOD WORLD:
Vandana Shiva, Wendell Berry, Eric Schlosser, Carlo Petrini & Michael Pollan (3 parts)
Three out of every five Americans are now overweight. Children who eat fast food every day gain an extra 6 pounds every year. It now appears likely that - for the first time in American history - our children will actually have a shorter life span than their parents.
This program about fast food is not just about the fact that grease, sugar, and extra calories make us fat and sick. It is about the giant industries behind fast food that change not only our bodies but the body of the earth and the lives of farmers who traditionally grew our foods.

With a cast of real stars: The physicist and seed collector Vandana Shiva from India, the Kentucky farmer and poet Wendell Berry, Eric Schlosser who wrote: Fast Food Nation, the founder of the Slow Food movement Carlo Petrini from Italy AND Michael Pollan, teacher and author of The Botany of Desire.
http://www.slowfood.com
http://www.vshiva.net
http://www.ecobooks.com/authors/berry.htm
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HOWARD LYMAN AND MAD COWS
His lone fight against some giants of industrial agriculture
(chemical manufacturers and cattle growers)
The Montana rancher Howard Lyman first came to world attention in 1998. He and Ophra Winfrey had been sued by Texas cattlemen and feedlot operators because Lyman had said, on the Ophra show, that mad cow disease might already be in the US. Since Lyman's warning the first case of mad cow disease has been confirmed in the US. In Part TWO Lyman says we are till feeding cows to cows and test less than 1% of slaughtered cows while Japan is testing every cow.

In Part ONE Lyman explains what chemical agriculture did to his farm, his family and himself, and what gave him the strength to keep up the fight against mad cow disease that is only now beginning to surface to a larger public.
After selling the majority of his farm Howard Lyman became an organizer with the Montana Farmer's Union. In 1995 he formed the organization he now works for: Voice for a Viable Future. He is the author of Mad Cowboy.
He was recorded at the 22nd National Pesticide Forum in April of 2004 in Berkeley.
Breaking NEWS: The Organic Consumers Association is beginning a Mad Cow campaign NOW.
OCA Organizing Mad Cow House Parties Across the U.S. this Spring. Check their web site at;
http://www.organicconsumers.org/madcow/dvd.htm
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Howard Lyman with Dr. Virgil Hulse
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Howard Lyman and Dr. Virgil Hulse discuss whether we can afford to continue our current eating habits. Dr. Hulse was one of the advisors to the Oprah Winfrey lawsuit. He is a family doctor and former dairy inspector who warns of widespread infestation of US cow herds by bovine leukemia and the bovine AIDS virus.

Mary O'Brien on Endocrine Disruptors
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Do chemicals that affect our hormones cause cancer? Dr. Mary O'Brien is a public-interest scientist who works on alternatives to chlorinated and endocrine-disrupting chemicals. She spoke at a gathering of Marin Breast Cancer Watch, a group dedicated to exploring the environmental causes of cancer.

Sandra Steingraber on Living Downstream
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Sandra Steingraber is called the new Rachel Carson. She is a biologist, poet, and survivor of cancer. Her scrupulously researched book, Living Downstream, describes the growing body of evidence linking cancer to environmental contamination.

Terri Swearingen
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Terri Swearingen is a woman of passion, wit, and integrity. She refers to herself as an ordinary housewife and mother. She rose to lead the fight for closure of the nation's largest toxic-waste incinerator, located in East Liverpool, Ohio -- just 1,100 feet from an elementary school.

Dangers of Cell Phones and Towers
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The rapid build-out of the wireless communications system and digital TV exposes people to thousands of new antenna sites. Growing evidence links radio frequency exposure to cancer. How can community groups protect themselves? What does the current research show? 50 minutes.