With heat waves all over the world, are we on the edge of catastrophe? Renowned Swedish scientist Johan Rockström answers in a short TED presentation August 15, 2024. Chevron just announced a “new frontier” for oil: drilling deep below the sea. Alex checks similarities to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout - America’s worst marine disaster. A new article in the journal Nature asks: “What is the hottest temperature humans can survive?” We covered that with the lead scientist Ollie Jay in 2019.
Presentation by Johan Rockstrm TED Countdown, August 15, 2024
Ollie Jay interview by Alex Smith for Radio Ecoshock, 2019.
Clip from The Twilight Zone "The Midnight Sun" 1961
Cip from "I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus" Firesign Theatre 1971
Clip from Michael Steele, RNC Convention 2008
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