The coming unstable tropics, seen through an ancient world. From the UK, Dr. Jessica Whiteside. Former NASA scientist James Hansen says 2 degrees warming is unsafe and "crazy" to set that as a goal. Huge Canadian rainforest on cusp of mega-deal to save it. Activist Valerie Langer.
Whiteside and Langer interviews by Alex Smith of Radio Ecoshock.
James Hansen interview courtesy of Radio National Australia, May 5, 2015.
Occasional music by Alex Smith
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Businessmen and government leaders keep rattling on about our future with 1000 parts per million or more of carbon dioxide. New science explains that even big dinosaurs couldn't live in that kind of world, ravaged by swings of climate so huge that plant life was unstable and unpredictable in the tropics.
James Hansen, one of the world's most respected climate scientists with a mega-warning on the developing climate emergency.
A Canadian deal to preserve ancient old-growth forests in an area the size of Ireland: Is The Great Bear Rainforest agreement a model for the rest of the world?