Rag Radio 2018-07-06 - Rag Radio Environmental Reporter Bruce Melton from Yosemite Park - Free Audiobook

Climate change researcher and Rag Radio environmental reporter Bruce Melton is Thorne Dreyer's guest on Rag Radio, joining us live from Yosemite National Park (actually from Fresno, where he could get cell phone service). Melton is on a marathon environmental research expedition that is taking him all the way to the Arctic Ocean. We discuss what he's learning on his trip, including about unprecedented mudslides in Ventura and Santa Barbara, California, which he says have "canary in a coal mine" implications, and he will report on desert plant mortality and other impacts from climate change in the Chihuahuan and Sonoran deserts – and a beetle kill leading all the way to Alaska. We also talk about Bruce's article posted at The Rag Blog in which he informs us that Alaska has now "flipped from a carbon sink to a carbon source," because of unprecedented permafrost melt. Bruce Melton, a longtime contributor to The Rag Blog and guest on Rag Radio, is a professional engineer, environmental researcher, filmmaker, author, and CEO of the Climate Change Now Initiative in Austin, Texas -- the oldest, independent climate science education organization in the world, founded in 2005. The Climate Change Now Initiative is a nonprofit outreach organization reporting the latest discoveries in climate science in plain English, using global warming psychology to communicate this new science on the right side of the brain. The Initiative's science reporting, films, music, and images of climate impacts happening now can be found at ClimateDiscovery.org.

Rag Radio is produced in the studios of KOOP 91.7-FM, an all-volunteer, cooperatively-run, solar powered community radio station in Austin, Texas, in association with The Rag Blog and the New Journalism Project, a Texas 501(c)(3) nonprofit. It is streamed live on the Internet at KOOP.org and Radio Free America. The host and producer of Rag Radio, Thorne Dreyer, is a prominent Austin-based activist and writer who was a pioneer of the ’60s underground press movement. The show’s engineer and co-producer is Tracey Schulz and the staff photographer is Roger Baker; Suzy Shelor is Rag Radio associate; Alice Embree is guest host; and Glenn Smith is our political analyst. The syndicated show is broadcast (and streamed) live Fridays, 2-3 p.m. Central) on KOOP, and is later rebroadcast and streamed on WFTE-FM in Mt. Cobb and Scranton, PA., on Houston Pacifica's KPFT HD-3 90.1, by KKRN, 88.5-FM in Round Mountain, CA, and at WALHRadio.com in Wilmington, OH -- and as a featured podcast at Veterans Today. Learn more about Rag Radio here. Running time: 54:11 Contact: ragradio@koop.org..