Geology Videos

David Suzuki talks at Greening the Heartland in Detroit. Also news and info from people trying to kick the Senate in the pants on climate change. There was a Mountain Top Removal protest last week at Marsh Fork Elementary School at Coal Mountain West Virginia, attended by some very well known people including Dr. James [...]

Enjoy your life while you can, because nothing we are doing right now will likely stop climate change in time. That is the terrifying message from Sir James Lovelock, famous UK scientist and inventor. Global heating will proceed. All Congress does is pass a cap and trade bill which won t even cut emissions [...]

Last Thursday, June 18, the U.S. government released a report, the work of 13 government agencies, that gives us a serious picture of climate change.  It is called Global Climate Change Impacts in the U.S, and this episode contains the findings. The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) coordinates and integrates federal research on changes in [...]

The beach known as The Children's Pool in La Jolla, California, has been a point of pride in the town for 75 years. Today almost no one goes there to swim, not since a pod of 200 harbor seals took up residence on the sand. Should La Jolla return the beach to use by people or make it a seal preserve? Sealed Off!!! takes a quirky look at this unusual controversy through the eyes of some of the people most intimately connected to it. [www.lifeonterra.com ] SPECIAL FEATURES / DETAILED EPISODE INFORMATION / TERRAPHILES COMMUNITY

The beach known as The Children's Pool in La Jolla, California, has been a point of pride in the town for 75 years. Today almost no one goes there to swim, not since a pod of 200 harbor seals took up residence on the sand. Should La Jolla return the beach to use by people or make it a seal preserve? Sealed Off!!! takes a quirky look at this unusual controversy through the eyes of some of the people most intimately connected to it. [ www.lifeonterra.com ] SPECIAL FEATURES / DETAILED EPISODE INFORMATION / TERRAPHILES COMMUNITY

The beach known as The Children's Pool in La Jolla, California, has been a point of pride in the town for 75 years. Today almost no one goes there to swim, not since a pod of 200 harbor seals took up residence on the sand. Should La Jolla return the beach to use by people or make it a seal preserve? Sealed Off!!! takes a quirky look at this unusual controversy through the eyes of some of the people most intimately connected to it. [www.lifeonterra.com ] SPECIAL FEATURES / DETAILED EPISODE INFORMATION / TERRAPHILES COMMUNITY

With this episode you are beginning Climatology classes here at Futurism Now University.  Along with politics, upcoming episodes will also deal with the cold, hard scientific facts of climate change. It s important that people know why strong climate legislation is important. We have about two weeks to strengthen the Waxman-Markey bill (aka the American clean [...]

See how the Jackson School of Geosciences takes some of the brightest high school students from across Texas and teaches them college-level earth sciences in diverse field locations like Mount St. Helens and the Grand Canyon.

Before this was a climate podcast . . . it was a news broadcast. This episode covers climate change, news about Karl Rove, news about diplomatic efforts, and the 819 billion dollar stimulus package that Obama wants passed. No Republicans voted to pass it in the House on Wednesday night and it passed [...]

Before this was a climate podcast, it was a news podcast. That s what this episode was. Wondering what President Obama is busy doing to promote peace in the Middle East? He starts with trying to return the US to the moral high ground by ending torture and signing an executive order to close the [...]

Before this podcast was about climate, it was about news in general. This episode is mostly about the inauguration and what the new Secretary of State (Hillary)  may work on in the next few weeks. Israel s war with Palestine is finally over. Also, hear Obama take the oath of office a SECOND time. This was [...]

This is the full inauguration address of President Barack Obama, January 20, 2009. Imagine this: We not only have hope back but we have a president who respects science and the law again. What a relief! (and yes, I wrote that without cynicism or sarcasm). See CivilianismNews.com for more. Transcript of the inaugural speech here. Download here or [...]

In one day we get a new president, after 8 long years of a presidency that started out bad and got worse until it descended into the depths of net loss for the U.S.   We would have done better with no president at all for the last eight years.   How bad was the Bush administration [...]

Top 10 Censored stories from Project censored, as reported by FSRN. The number one story is the death toll in Iraq, which is now amounting to a media blackout over a million people dead, surpassing the Rwanda massacre death toll. One censored story was about Infragard, which I talked about in my Civilianism podcast [...]

Noam Chomsky on Wars, Bailouts and Elections. This is from an alternative radio program, from November 2008, and is meant to basically be a placeholder here until I start recording episodes. Enjoy some Noam in a pre-climate Futurism Now. Download this episode here.

This is a show from the CBC, an interesting look at what makes a society healthy, in more ways than one. It is also a filler show until I start recording them. Enjoy this recording from the CBC. Download this episode here.

Howard Zinn gives us some advice on dealing with our government. When your government commits crimes, you have to respond in a way that makes them change their behavior. This is where civil disobedience comes in. Civil disobedience has a long respected history in many countries, including the U.S. Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, [...]

NOVA scienceNOW producer Julia Cort talks to MIT geologist Sam Bowring about a mass extinction at the end of the Permian period and discusses whether it could happen again. Audio editing by David Levin. Produced by Susan K. Lewis. Interview with Sam Bowring conducted by Julia Cort. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by Pfizer, the National Science Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and public television viewers. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0229297. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. For more fun science stories, visit our Web site at http://www.pbs.org/nova/sciencenow