More on super storms, ice melt & James Hansen, from climate expert Dr. David Archer & anti-nuclear activist Michael Mariotte. New Antarctic melt science w. Dr. Tony Worby & Dr. David Etheridge - some surprises in role of Antarctic ice in world weather.
Archer and Mariotte interviews by Alex Smith
Worby and Etheridge interview excerpts from "Beyond Zero Emissions" radio on 3CR community radio, Melbourne Australia - as hosted by Vivien Langford.
In the Affiliates version there is a good break and re-intro at 32 minutes for stations needing to insert station ID or announcements.
Dr. David Archer, from the University of Chicago is the author of "The Long Thaw" and other books. He often posts on Real Climate, and is well respected in the climate community. I thought he might be critical of the new James Hansen paper on Ice Melt, Sea Level and Super Storms - but as an official reviewer, Archer finds it to be genius science. Archer explains its importance for all of us during the coming decades.
I do have trouble with James Hansen's promotion of nuclear power as a solution for climate change. In Hansen's book "Storms of My Grandchildren" he advocates for Generation Four nuclear reactors, new designs that are allegedly safer. But now he's gone a step further, teaming up in an unlikely alliance with Michael Schellenberger of the Breaththrough Institute, to push for Illinois to keep old and dangerous reactors running - and get a public subsidy for them.
Two of these are the GE Mark I reactors that blew up in Fukushima, due to bad design (the fuel rods come up from the bottom, through seals that let reactor fuel leak out of containment). Hansen is on the board of an industry-friendly group in Illinois, all funded by the Chicago billonaire family, the Pritzkers. Strange company.
I talk with the long-time head of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) Michael Mariotte about "how low will they go".
Then we get some surprises in new science on Antarctica, from two Australian experts. We've all be focused on major changes in the Arctic, which is conveniently closer to most of us - but it's the South Pole which may determine the future of the world - through sea levels, and sea ice several times greater than Australia. That ice melt may determine the coming weather, even in the next decades.
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