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Green Planet Monitor Podcast

https://media.blubrry.com/thegreenbluesshow/content.blubrry.com/thegreenbluesshow/GPM_11.mp3

The roots of the US anti-abortion movement — misogyny, racism and hatred of immigrants. On the edge of a big Canadian city, an oasis of calm where wildlife thrives. And, the latest report from the World Meteorological Organization; its lead author is scared.



Cryosphere

Planet Earth is covered in water. Ninety-seven percent is in earth’s oceans. Most of the rest is frozen solid — locked up in sea ice and terrestrial ice sheets, glaciers and permafrost. Earth’s cryosphere plays a huge role in regulating climate. As our planet warms, its cryosphere is slowly melting, triggering positive feedbacks that make earth scientists worry.











Ninth Transmission

http://media.blubrry.com/thegreenbluesshow/dl.dropbox.com/u/314577/Warm%20Wet%20Planet/Warming.mp3

One of Earth’s tens of millions of species has been mining colossal volumes of organic matter buried for ages, and burning the stuff for fuel — raising the surface temperature of their planet to a level higher than any time in the past.