Futurism Podcast Videos

The cap and trade legislation has been put off until well after the Copenhagen summit in December. It s pushed into spring, 2010, if then.  If you want to read some better bills than cap and trade, which should be called Cap and RAID, you can check out all the other bills that intend to mitigate [...]

The new 2009 World Energy Report shows a decline in oil, but did the U.S. interfere in the final report to avoid a panic in the markets?  The IEA denies the pressure. Many experts think Saudi Arabia and other countries are inflating the numbers reflecting what oil they have left. This was NaPodPoMo episode 11 of the [...]

LinkTV has a new weekly climate change video here and will appear on FN s news website every week also. I went to a talk tonight given by Sami Rasouli . . . He s an Iraqi-American who has been a peace activist for Iraq and he recently returned from a trip to Iraq. [...]

Meat consumption might be destroying the planet and killing us.  It s certainly not green, so maybe we should think about it more before using it so much.  And Americans consume more meat than anyone on the planet.   It s contributing to climate change, to terrible environmental practices, pollution and our inability to feed everyone on [...]

Climate change will be very much about justice in the years and decades to come.  This is Episode8 of the podcasting marathon known as Napodpomo.  Green money Green jobs Green greed the Jolly Green Giant Known as Copenhagen Is climate change stalling and finger-pointing  green insanity?  Not everything can be called green. Economic INjustice means those [...]

The Brutal Truth about climate change is this:  it s much worse, and much more threatening to our future, than the public thinks it is.  In fact, it has scientists scared.  Yet the political response is to work with business and work with Republicans and conservative Democrats like Joe Lieberman to get a passable bill that [...]

The history of the discovery of global warming/climate change goes back much farther in time than people think. And no, global warming was not invented by  Al Gore.  NASA scientist James Hansen didn t discover it either, despite his 1988 testimony before Congress. Global warming theory has been around for a long time, since before industrialization.  In [...]

This is NaPodPoMo5, the fifth installment of Futurism Now s podcast marathon. Covered in this episode:  Deep-sea Ecosystems Affected By Climate Change. Trees in the desert, say the Sahara, might solve climate change?  Well, it s a plan. Liquid Granite and the hunt for a carbon-neutral cement, Foldable 3D Solar Cells, robot fish and more, in some science and tech [...]

News from Futurism Now, and episode #4 of the NaPodPoMo podcast marathon. What are Senators up to on the climate bill? Senate Republicans Stall Climate Legislation!  Story here. Panic at 2:00 am!   Where is the ice? Utilities Drop Plans for Big Stone II Coal Plant, clearing the way for wind power.   Great news! Al Gore chats about his [...]

This is episode 3 of National Podcast Post Month. The mystery of global warming Skeptics. I don t understand people who deny facts and science do you? Someday, we ll figure it out. Meanwhile, climate change continues to happen, despite whether people believe in it or not. Al Gore s spiritualism theory article is here, George Monbiot s article is [...]

Here are some things you need to know before Copenhagen, just the basics. There will be more basics coming later this week. Start with the UNFCCC website and their facts about climate change. Today s installment of NaPodPoMo #2, my podcasting marathon, is about some necessary background in order to understand some of the future podcasts about [...]

Kicking off NaPodPoMo month, Futurism Now covers environmental and climate justice and EPA news.  Join FN this month while we explore whether a daily podcast can be done  while retaining a semblance of a life. NaPodPoMo stands for National Podcast Post Month . Check out the other ones participating here. Climate justice is about climate [...]

The UN Summit on Climate Change brought together 100 world leaders at the UN on September 22 and the Age of Stupid movie event happened on September 21, all in New York City. What did they all accomplish? Possibly a lot! The UN Summit was a good start, according to Ban [...]

Will the U.S. avert climate catastrophe in time?  Are we really even trying? Last Thursday, September 17th, the American Security Project came up with a report, the Climate Security Index.   You can download the report here. It almost sounds like members of the Senate are planning to not act to slow down climate change,  so that things [...]

The very air we breathe is causing us health problems.  Aerosols and other things in our air are still making us sick.  The military might be putting something in it, to fight climate change, or for reasons much worse. What s in the air? Whatever it is, it s killing people.  Chem trails, global dimming,  global hazing [...]

Two themes: How best to mitigate climate change legislatively, and jobs and energy specifically renewable energy discussed at the National Clean Energy Summit (website here). See the news items I discussed on the FN news site here. The most disappointing was that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton OK d the Alberta Clipper pipeline that was discussed last week.   There [...]

The tar sands of Canada are the dirtiest fossil fuel on the planet so far and they are invested in by T. Boone Pickens. So why is he a part of developing our new renewable clean energy plans? Over the last several years Mr. Pickens has acquired a reputation as a green energy promoter, a [...]