On October 8, 2018, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UN IPCC) approved its latest report at its meeting in Incheon, South Korea. The report states that human […]
Climate Change from Ancient Farming
Most agree from the evidence that climate change probably began at the start of the Industrial Revolution. This is when machines were invented that ran on fossil fuels like oil, […]
Les Luster’s Rock Show
Les Luster, the voice of many public service announcements on WORT-FM, presents his regular program of high-energy rock and roll with his latest discoveries in the world of global warming, […]
Wisconsin’s Birds Are Adapting to Modern Climate Change
You’ve heard the expression: a canary in a coal mine. Because birds are more sensitive to airborne poisons than are humans, in the 1920s, John Scott Haldane suggested that coal […]
Political Climate: The World Reacts to US Paris Accord Pull-Out
Ankur Desai, Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at UW Madison and Christiane Brunner the Spokesperson for the Environment, Climate Protection and Energy for the Austrian Green Party join Eight […]
Ocean of Insight–A Sailor’s Voyage from Despair to Hope
Eleven years ago, Heather Mann had a nice career going here in Madison. She was the founder and director of the Center for Resilient Cities, an environmental advocacy group with […]