Full show notes at Hot Topic. In this episode we spoke with kiwi yachtsman Graeme Kendall who sailed through the Arctic North West Passage in record time a couple of months ago. We also welcomed John Cook to the show. He’s the creator the climate science resource ‘Skeptical Science‘.
For a while now I’ve had a few ideas for longer form interview shows that don’t necessarily fit into the radio format. The web is a wonderful place to turn these ideas into actual shows without the usual problems of distribution and programming constraints. The Climate Show came out of a recent discussion with Hot-Topic author Gareth Renowden. For me, climate change is the number one issue above everything else in the world. So why not a whole show dedicated to the topic? Well here it is in it’s full 53 minute glory (perhaps a little shorter in future). Gareth has written up the show notes in a post at Hot Topic but here it is in brief: we discussed new temperature records, the state of the Arctic, chatted with Kevin Cudby about his new book From Smoke To Mirrors, recommended the Skeptical Science web site and iPhone app, and then discussed some recent developments in solar photovoltaic technologies. We’ll get a website up at TheClimateShow.com but in the meantime you can follow the show on Twitter and Facebook.
Here’s an audio link as well (24.4MB)
NIWA is being challenged by the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition over the accuracy of its data used to calculate global warming. Gareth Renowden from Hot Topic says they have no basis to make this claim.
