Jan 26, 2018
In this episode, I try to explore a little more the politics
behind the simple question: why is it that virtually every other
proclamation of physicists is accepted, but the consensus around
anthropogenic climate change has been so difficult for people to
accept?
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Jan 19, 2018
You may remember not so long ago the hole in the ozone layer was the major scientific apocalypse story out there in the world. It could have proved devastating for society, but - after the Montreal protocol banned and heavily regulated the substances that were causing the problem, the ozone hole has begun to shrink and...
Jan 12, 2018
In this second part of the climate change episode, I will talk
about what climate change is going to do to us - what the worst
case scenarios are - and what we can do, as individuals and as a
collective, to stop it.
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Jan 5, 2018
Our environment links us all: and we know that we are doing
immense harm to that natural environment with our human activities.
But where are the weak links? What are the potential pitfalls for
the natural world, and for civilisation? In other words - if we
don't change our ways - what could happen?
We all know that...