Archive for the 'climate' Category

079 – Prof Tim Flannery – Sustainability & Climate Part 1

Saturday, December 27th, 2008

Professor Tim Flannery is the author of the popular book “The Weather Makers” and is well known for his views on Climate Change. Professor Flannery was awarded Australian of the Year in 2007, and I attended a lecture he gave in September on Climate Change. This is part 1 of a 2 part talk by […]

078 – Prof Roger Short – Saving Asian Elephants 2 (ft Dr Roger Rassool)

Saturday, December 20th, 2008

In this episode, which is the final of a 2 part interview, I talk once again with Professor Roger Short, from the University of Melbourne on further topics regarding Asian elephants, and on saving them. – elephant accents – what happens when you play Asian elephant vocalisations to captive African elephants? Some surprising results! – […]

071 – Prof Mike Sandiford – Geothermal Energy

Friday, September 5th, 2008

With the media spotlight on climate change, alternative energies have been looked at as serious contenders to the energy needs of the world. Given that fossil fuels have been shown to have dire side effects in terms of carbon emissions, scientists have intensified their research into cheap, accessible, and clean energy forms. We’ve heard about […]

067 – Dr Pamela Gay – Arms of the Milky Way

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

In astronomical news recently – it was announced that the Milky Way has two less arms than originally thought. How? Why? And what’s a galaxy to start with? To answer these questions, I talk to Dr Pamela Gay, an astronomer from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, who tells us all why this is so. Also featured […]

066 – Seth Shostak – The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Dr Seth Shostak is a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute – we discuss the SETI program and about the possibility of intelligent life out there; the Drake Equation and how soon it might be before we find extra terrestrial life of some form. Also featured on today’s show are the Brain Teaser, Pin of […]

055 – David Karoly – Climate Change

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

In this episode, I talk to Professor David Karoly, Federation Fellow at the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne in Australia – and who is also a lead author for the IPCC (Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change) report on global warming. We discusses climate change – what is it, what causes it, […]

051 – Dr Todd Lane – The Helios Experimental NASA Aircraft

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

I talk to Dr Todd Lane about the Helios experimental aircraft from NASA, and his investigations into the reasons why it crashed. Download MP3 of Ep51 Click here to see the Helios aircraft in flight. Please vote for this podcast this month at You can donate by clicking on the button above, and subscribe by […]

Global Warming – ‘Scepticism is fine, falsification is a completely different thing’

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

Sun not responsible for recent warming Study of climate sceptics The Great Global Warming Swindle Hack interview with David Karoly Some say that the ABC shouldnt be airing it. Others say it’s truth. Hack caught up with David Karoly, a scientist who appears in the debate airing after the documentary

Global Warming – ‘Scepticism is fine, falsification is a completely different thing’

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

Sun not responsible for recent warming Study of climate sceptics The Great Global Warming Swindle Hack interview with David Karoly Some say that the ABC shouldnt be airing it. Others say it’s truth. Hack caught up with David Karoly, a scientist who appears in the debate airing after the documentary

Cosmos articles

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

Sun in the clear over global warming A solar radiation study is evidence that global warming over the past two decades cannot be blamed on the Sun, a theory espoused by climate-change sceptics. Maths proves the silliness of silly walks Scientists have explained mathematically why the famous “silly walks” of Monty Python’s John Cleese have […]