- Julian Hector
- 29 Nov 06, 12:31 PM
In Britain, this is a wonderful time of year to walk along estuaries. With Ireland, we certainly have an important European wide responsibility for them, and we're even up there globally. They are harsh flat places, often wet and windy and dominated by sticky mud - which if you tread in it smells of rotten eggs. Not many people like these places - but like a Rembrandt masterpiece, do you have to like it to appreciate its value - to love and treasure it. Climate change is hitting them.
Continue reading "You Might not Like it, but you have to Love it"
- Julian Hector
- 27 Nov 06, 09:14 AM
Tune in tonight at 21.02 GMT on 大象传媒 Radio 4 - listen on FM or LW. The programme is also streamed on this site and you'll be able to listen to the show any time after tonight by visiting this blog.
Continue reading "PEuT Episode 2 goes out Tonight - LIFE ON THE MOVE"
- Julian Hector
- 23 Nov 06, 03:08 PM
The Stern Review highlights the economic cost of climate change - hardly a laugh a minute. The IPCC report of 2001, with another due next year - this written by international scientists, is also tough reading. Both important - and what about the people on the ground, is their message down beat and depressing. The answer, probably, if they are talking about conservation.
Continue reading "Why are Conservationists so Miserable?"
- Kyren Burns
- 20 Nov 06, 05:29 PM
Planet Earth Under Threat begins broadcasting at 9pm tonight on Radio 4. In the first of 8 episodes we look at how global warming is changing the Earth.
Continue reading "Evidence from the Earth: 20 November 2006"
- Julian Hector
- 20 Nov 06, 04:54 PM
We go out tonight. 大象传媒 Radio 4 at 21.02 GMT (92.4-94.6 FM - 198 LW and streamed live on the R4 website). There will be a listen again facility on this blog. Join Gabrielle for the first show and then get on the blog - we run now for 8 consequtive weeks, and then we repeat the whole series. Next week it's "Life on the Move".
- Julian Hector
- 17 Nov 06, 04:21 PM
Sand Eels are on the way out and Snake Pipe Fish are on the way in - And the seabirds of the East Atlantic don't know what to do.
(Picture 漏 Harry Scott)
Continue reading " (The Killer) Snake Pipe Fish"
- Julian Hector
- 15 Nov 06, 08:50 AM
Have you ever heard the scientific term "feedback loop"? It's a good one, it's how most of life is regulated and it might help this chasm of uselessness that exists between us lay people and the unweildy spectre of climate change that hangs over us.
Continue reading "From Science to Morality - And back Again?"
- Julian Hector
- 10 Nov 06, 12:06 PM
As people we like to surround our selves with home comforts - How we seek comfort might be the key to turning climate change around.
Continue reading "Comfortable?"
- Julian Hector
- 6 Nov 06, 09:16 AM
Planet Earth - the high definition block buster started screening again last night in the UK with a spectacular on the polar regions. Awe and wonder makes us care.
Continue reading "Grey-Headed Albatross - Needs You!"
- Julian Hector
- 3 Nov 06, 09:32 AM
On Thursday 31st October Sir Nicholas Stern published his report on . This review is a bitter pill to swallow but I suspect no surprise to you if you have kept up with this blog. But climate change isn't the only thing effecting the ability of our earth to support life. We're killing forests, poisoning our rivers, fishing out the seas - the entirety of which is raining hell on Earth.
Continue reading "Raining Hell on Earth - The Chant of Certainty"
