Climate Hour

Prospering In A Post-Climate Change World

Climate Hour ·

2025/02/02

CLIMATE HOUR – Prospering may sound like it has financial overtones, but there’s more to it than that. A prosperous life is one filled with joy and love; full of friends and community. We’re prosperous when we have our health and can enjoy fresh air & water. Prosperity is measured by the wealth of our daily activities and not by the balance of our bank account. Scientists started blowing whistles about climate change in the 1980s. That’s over half-a-century ago, far too long ago to avoid or

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The Growth Of Climate Anxiety Impacts World Mental...

Climate Hour ·

2025/01/01

CLIMATE HOUR – Many people are experiencing climate-related disasters on a regular basis. This can lead to climate anxiety; a type of emotional anxiety which may express itself as distress about future climate disasters, or even distress over the long-term existence of humanity and the survival of our friends and family. Worry about climate is not the same as climate anxiety. We all need to be worried about climate issues. This is a healthy response to real problems. But when worry becomes anxiety,

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The Case for Climate Optimism and Green Energy Law

Climate Hour ·

2024/12/01

CLIMATE HOUR – Current political trends are making it harder and harder to express climate optimism. Not only are countries failing to meet their Paris Climate Treaty commitments, but recent elections have given climate deniers control of many governments. The prospect for significant climate action through legislation is dimming. But the potential for economic solutions to climate change are growing. Electricity produced from renewable wind and solar is now cheaper than that from fossil fuels. The

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The Opportunities Women’s Voices Offer In World...

Climate Hour ·

2024/11/01

CLIMATE HOUR – Women are deeply effected by the climate crisis. They repeatedly demonstrate that they have the strength, ideas and skills to make crucial decisions about how we live with the Earth and with each other. Women around the world direct their family’s lifestyle and consumption habits. Women farmers feed the world, producing as much as 80% of food in the Global South. Indigenous women in particular hold invaluable traditional knowledge on regenerative farming and the preservation of our

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How to Make Policy Work Through Collective Climate...

Climate Hour ·

2024/10/01

CLIMATE HOUR – We as individuals know that we can do things that reduce our personal carbon footprint – things that make us healthier, more secure, save us money – all while helping the environment and reducing climate change. But we also know that it’s going to take collective action to fight the most egregious impacts of climate. And to act collectively, we must engage with our governments to create positive climate legislation and then engage with that legislation to make real-world change. A

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Role Of State Government In The Challenge Of Climate...

Climate Hour ·

2024/09/01

CLIMATE HOUR – What is the role of state government in the challenge of Climate Change? The scientific consensus is that global warming of over two degrees Celsius will threaten human life as we know it. The Paris Agreement defines 1.5 degrees as a more desirable goal to limit the worst outcomes. Yet as of October, 2023, the planet’s average surface-temperature increase was already 1.4 degrees Celsius. There’s many things we can do to reduce our personal carbon footprint. But we also need to

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Surprising Connections Between Humans And The Natural...

Climate Hour ·

2024/08/01

CLIMATE HOUR – Connections between humans and the natural world are often seen as exploitative or destructive. But scientists continue to find surprising ways that the natural world can heal us, both physically and mentally. Join host, Bob Grove, and Florence Williams, science journalist and author, to discuss the surprising connections between humans and the natural world. Florence Williams, author of The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative, has been awarded the

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Water Wars: Direct Impacts of Water Scarcity on the...

Climate Hour ·

2024/07/01

CLIMATE HOUR – Clean water is essential for life, yet billions of people around the world don’t have enough water. Global warming is increasing the number of water-stressed areas and magnifying the water problems in regions already affected, leading to increased geopolitical conflict and water wars. Scientists with the United Nations report a 20% drop in renewable water resources for every 1° celsius increase in global warming. So the world’s current 1.5° celsius increase means we’ve already lost

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Marine Mammals: Early Warning For World Climate Survival

Climate Hour ·

2024/06/01

CLIMATE HOUR – Marine mammals are the planet’s canary in a coalmine. For as the ocean goes, so goes the land and all that dwell upon it. Climate change is causing the world’s oceans to become warmer and more acidic, while a constant stream of petrochemicals and microplastics turn then into a toxic wasteland. The study and preservation of marine mammals can provide an early warning system that helps us understand the long term impacts of climate and waste on land, and the future of land

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The Amazing Impacts of the Little Community Orchard

Climate Hour ·

2024/05/01

CLIMATE HOUR – A little community orchard provides an amazing number of benefits. First there’s basic carbon sequestration. Trees take carbon out of the air and reduce global warming. Then there’s food sovereignty. Trees give you control of your own food sources. In today’s corporate farming system, genetically modified foods are picked green, irradiated to prevent spoilage, then shipped half way around the world to high priced grocery stores. Food sovereignty means growing tasty, nutritious food

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Value of Teaching Teachers To Be Climate Teachers

Climate Hour ·

2024/04/01

CLIMATE HOUR – We’ve talked about climate education before. We’ve discussed how to teach children about climate, and we’ve talked about climate programs in higher education. But all of these programs need teachers who understand and are willing to add climate to their curriculum. How do we go about teaching teachers to teach climate change and how do we form the professional networks needed to support both formal and non-formal climate education? How do we teach teachers to teach climate? Join

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Reframing The Climate Conversation Now

Climate Hour ·

2024/03/01

CLIMATE HOUR – When was the last time you talked about climate issues with a friend or family member? Studies find that the majority of people are concerned about climate but don’t talk about it. Why has something as universal as the climate conversation become such a political football that it’s a forbidden topic at family holiday gatherings? In 2002, a prominent republican pollster circulated a strategy guide advising his candidates to talk about “climate change” instead of global warming. His

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How To Make Higher Education Work for Climate Change

Climate Hour ·

2024/02/01

CLIMATE HOUR — How do we prepare our college and university graduates to understand, survive and even prosper in this age of climate change? Some of this is expanding science degrees to address climate-related issues. But most of it is incorporating climate-related issues into ALL subjects; cross-cutting education to address the climate change we’re experiencing today and the climate reality that our graduates will face tomorrow. The United Nations is calling for climate change studies to be a

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How Climate Change is Impacting World Forest Growth

Climate Hour ·

2024/01/01

CLIMATE HOUR — We know that deforestation, commercial farming, urban sprawl and other forms of defoliation contribute to climate change. But what about the other way around. What is climate change doing to trees and other plants? Destruction of plants reduce our planet’s ability to sequestor greenhouse gases and increase global warming. But what if global warming itself is effecting world forest growth and other plants? Join host, Bob Grove, and Dr Rohan Shetti, Faculty of Environment, University

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Food Security, Polyforestry and NOAA’s Climate Dashboard

Climate Hour ·

2023/12/01

CLIMATE HOUR — For most of the world, food security – having enough to eat – is one of today’s greatest challenges. As climate change continues to disrupt today’s industrial farming systems, world leaders are reevaluating traditional regenerative farming practices which are more resistant to climate change. Practices which work with the environment instead of killing it the way today’s monocrop farming does. Agroforestry is a specialized type of regenerative agriculture that involves growing

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Ocean Warming And The Survival Of The World’s Largest...

Climate Hour ·

2023/11/01

CLIMATE HOUR — Oceans cover 70% of our planet’s surface. Oceans absorb 90% of the heat from global warming. They absorb 30% of the carbon dioxide produced by burning fossile fuels. Oceans drive our planet’s weather and oceans feed much of the world. Ocean warming threatens the survival of the world’s largest ecosystem. The importance of oceans cannot be over stressed. As go the oceans, so goes civilization. Join host, Bob Grove, and Dr Greg Asner, Director of the Center for Global Discovery and

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India’s Perspective on Climate Change

Climate Hour ·

2023/10/01

CLIMATE HOUR — India has now surpassed China as the world’s most populous nation. That’s almost one-and-a-half billion people living in an area three times smaller than the United States. To put that in perspective, a person living in the U.S. has on average 12 times more space than a person living in India. To put that in GLOBAL perspective, 17% of the entire world’s population lives in India. India’s perspective on climate change plays an increasingly important role in the planet’s future. India

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Nuclear Energy

Climate Hour ·

2023/09/01

CLIMATE HOUR — Nuclear supporters think that nuclear energy is a safe, sustainable option with zero greenhouse gas emissions, that plays an important role in fighting climate change. The anti-nuclear movement thinks that nuclear power’s radioactivity creates too many risks; and that nuclear is too expensive and too slow to deploy when compared to modern renewable energy sources, like wind and solar. Is nuclear an important tool in the transition away from fossil fuels, or is it already outperformed

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Engaging With Black Communities on Climate

Climate Hour ·

2023/08/01

The Climate movement is predominantly white. Many climate activists raise up Climate Equity and the importance of engaging with communities of color, but then what do we do? How do we actually engage with black communities and other communities of color to fight climate change? Join host, Bob Grove, and guests to discuss engaging with Black Communities on climate. Guest inlcude: Nicolette & Darrian Davis, Community organizers, Pan-African freedom fighters, and Co-Founders of the Kansas City

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Climate Science and Renewable Technology

Climate Hour ·

2023/07/01

Science has now demonstrated that there’s enough wind energy globally to supply the energy needs of the entire planet. Combine this with all of the renewable solar and water energy, and there’s more energy available than we can ever use. Detailed plans and grid-studies are in place for all 50 U.S. States, hundreds of cities worldwide, 145+ countries and over 400 international corporations to all transition to 100% renewable water-wind-solar energy by 2035 with an infrastructure payback of just six

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