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For today’s Climate Report on 7/8/21, we focus on the two things on the minds of most local listeners regarding climate change impacts and adaptation: heatwaves and fires. First, a new study on how the most recent heatwave exceeded even the worst-case scenarios of climate modeling, throwing predictions for the future up tin air. Next, a piece by a noted climatologist and hydrologist, who talks abo...

For today’s Climate Report on 7/8/21, we focus on the two things on the minds of most local listeners regarding climate change impacts and adaptation: heatwaves and fires. First, a new study on how the most recent heatwave exceeded even the worst-case scenarios of climate modeling, throwing predictions for the future up tin air. Next, a piece by a noted climatologist and hydrologist, who talks abo...

On the May 27th Climate Report we run through the latest blows to fossil fuels and oil multinationals, from major court rulings that are putting pressure on them from the outside, to shareholder rebellions that are squeezing them from the inside. Chevron, Shell, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, Whitehaven Coal…the handwriting is on the wall and the end of the carbon-heavy fossil fuel age is fast approa...

For the May 13th Climate Report, we started in Kern County, CA, where 90% of the state’s natural gas, 70% of the state’s oil, and 25% of its renewable energy comes from…and thousands more oil wells are being planned. Next we talk about the expected changes to the US way of life as we address climate change, including eventually having every community served by electric US Mail trucks. After hangin...

For today’s 4-22-21 “Earth Day” Climate Report, we start with some brief CA wildfire news and segue into a new global media effort called Covering Climate Now, which is the name being given to a new broad affiliation among 400 newsrooms around the world with access to 2 billion people, in order to address the climate crisis regularly and head-on in their news reporting. Then we wrap up with a big...

For today’s 4-8-21 Climate Report, we went deep on a couple of topics: First, we cover the challenges that the health care industry faces during the time of Covid, and how that has impacted their efforts to be more sustainable, when we know that single-use plastics dominate hospital settings in order to maintain sterile environments. Good change is still happening. Next we delve into a sobering ne...

We start off talking about putting solar over California’s canals and aqueducts, and how solar helped in the Texas power failures. Plus, how the Texas extreme climate shutdown unintentionally limited the amount of fossil fuel cars being produced in the US, which segued into new studies showing how wasteful combustion cars are vs EVs, when it comes to their lifecycle of initial production through t...

We talked about numerous ways that citizens can support the grid during times of high-demand when blackouts are imminent: through conservation, through solar-plus-batteries sending power to the grid, through EV batteries sending power to the grid, and ways to get paid for doing all that. We also talked about forests and fires, and US utilities being unprepared for climate change, as evidenced by c...

After some local news on county and city government Energy Action Plans and electric busses, we put a focus on the concept of micro grids for CA, and what are the hurdles that stand in the way to fast deployment, plus how there is no longer a fire season…it’s all year long now. For more news between shows and links to news we read on-air, find the Climate Report Facebook page at facebook.com/KVMRC...

Host Martin Webb reports on climate change and renewable energy. For more news between shows and links to news we read on-air, find the Climate Report Facebook page at facebook.com/KVMRClimateReport

Host Martin Webb reports on renewable energy, climate change, and why he’s retitling his award-winning show. For more news between shows and links to news we read on-air, find the Climate Report Facebook page at facebook.com/KVMRClimateReport