Climate Hour
The best in climate news, technology and practices from experts in the field. For more information, vist http://ClimateHour.net or email [email protected]
- Update frequency
- every 30 days
- Average duration
- 50 minutes
- Episodes
- 45
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Degrowth: The Path From Consumerism To Survival
CLIMATE HOUR – Sustainability is about finding life’s balance. Producing enough to satisfy your customers’ needs while earning enough to satisfy the needs of you and your co-workers. In contrast, per…
How Melting Ice Sheets Are Drowning The World
CLIMATE HOUR – Sea level rise may be climate change’s biggest long-term impact. With just today’s 1.2 degree Celsius increase in global temperature, we can expect sea level rise of at least 1-2 meter…
Reasons For Climate Denialism: How To Speak The Truth
CLIMATE HOUR – Climate issues are clearly on everyone’s minds. The constant weather disasters, disruption of our food systems, sea level threats to coastal communities. Yet in the face of what we see…
Volcanoes and Rocks: This Is The Ultimate Hard Climate Science
CLIMATE HOUR – The study of volcanoes and rocks help scientists chart our planet’s history of warming and cooling. These studies provide quantifiable data that is accurate, objective, and results in …
How Electric Vehicles Make Practical Sense Under Multiple Scenarios
CLIMATE HOUR – Today’s electric vehicles out-perform gas vehicles on every front. A study at Michigan’s Transportation Research Institute found that the average cost to operate an EV in the U.S. was …
How To Make Trees Fight Climate Change
CLIMATE HOUR – You can make trees. You can plant them, watch them grow, and they will automatically fight climate change for you. Trees are made out of cellulose and cellulose is carbon. There are li…
GenZ Perspectives On The World Of Climate Change
CLIMATE HOUR – Generation Z is now the world’s largest demographic group, representing over 20% of U.S. population and 25% of world population. Members of GenZ, born around 1997 to 2012, have grown u…
Prospering In A Post-Climate Change World
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 prospero…
The Growth Of Climate Anxiety Impacts World Mental Health
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 futu…
The Case for Climate Optimism and Green Energy Law
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 election…
The Opportunities Women’s Voices Offer In World Climate Actions
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 a…
How to Make Policy Work Through Collective Climate Action
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 …
Role Of State Government In The Challenge Of Climate Change
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 kno…
Surprising Connections Between Humans And The Natural World
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, bot…
Water Wars: Direct Impacts of Water Scarcity on the World
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 …
Marine Mammals: Early Warning For World Climate Survival
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…
The Amazing Impacts of the Little Community Orchard
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 f…
Value of Teaching Teachers To Be Climate Teachers
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 program…
Reframing The Climate Conversation Now
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. Wh…
How To Make Higher Education Work for Climate Change
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 cli…