Indian analyst prefers failure to empty climate agreement at COP17 Durban Dec 2011. James Hansen at AGU San Francisco Dec 6. Durban wrap up with Janet Redman of IPS. Australian Prof. Michael Raupach on burst of new carbon & changing world.
Praful Bidwai interview in Durban by Stephen Leahy, of Independent Press Service (stephenleahy.net) for Radio Ecoshock.
James Hansen clips from American Geophysical Union (agu.org) press briefing Dec 6, 2011 at annual conference, San Francisco. 1 hour video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTTlAAiwgwM&feature=channel_video_title
Janet Redman courtesy Institute for Policy Studies, interview by Alex Smith, Radio Ecoshock. Hat tip to Daphne Wysham, Earthbeat Radio.
Dr. Michael Raupach interview by Alex Smith, Radio Ecoshock.
Song clip: "Mother Earth" by Shane Philip, Vancouver Island.
Also available as 2 29 min segments for stations needing time for station ID/announcements. Posted below.
Diplomats from all over the world are returning home after a hard-won agreement in Durban, South Africa.
They agreed to do nothing to save our climate from disaster.
Our governments will talk until 2015, and then maybe do something serious about greenhouse gas emissions in 2020. By then, as Radio Ecoshock listeners know, we will be committed to at least 3 and a half degrees Centigrade hotter world in 2100, than our ancestors knew in 1750. It will only get hotter after that.
We're going to hear four reports.
From India, journalist, author and political analyst Praful Bidwai tells Stephen Leahy of IPS - a failure in Durban would be better than what we got. We go outside the spin of Western media.
Then to San Francisco, to hear NASA's Dr. James Hansen at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union. He describes our unique and dangerous path.
Back to South Africa, where Janet Redman has survived the gruelling Durban conference sessions, to give us the wrap up. What did and didn't happen, along with the American role.
We finish up with an interview with Dr. Michael Raupach from Australia's National Science Agency. He's part of the Global Carbon Project which just published the bad news about our "monstrous" increase in emissions.
New science, predictions of doom, and a world in paralysis - it's another Radio Ecoshock show.
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