It's much later than we think: the methane time-bomb is ticking

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Tue, 01/20/2015 - 12:00am
Guest Robert Hunziker talks about a much more than inconvenient truth
Host Paul Roland talks with environmental journalist Robert Hunziker about the "dreaded methane veil" arising from melting Arctic sea ice. He has recently written about the "Global Warming Bubble" that, when it bursts, will shatter our remaining illusions about how real and how urgent it is. This is our final wake up call. 


Robert Hunziker (MA, economic history, DePaul University) is a freelance writer and environmental journalist whose articles have been translated into foreign languages and appeared in over 50 journals, magazines, and sites worldwide, like Z magazine, European Project on Ocean Acidification, Ecosocialism Canada, Climate Himalaya, Counterpunch, Dissident Voice, Comite Valmy, and UK Progressive. He has been interviewed about climate change on Pacifica Radio, KPFK, FM90.7, Indymedia On Air, and the World View Show/UK, as well as Thom Hartmann's Big Picture, and Norman B's Life Elsewhere, 88.5 WMNF. http://www.ukprogressive.co.uk/author/robert-hunziker

Here are some of his recent articles:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/11/25/the-global-warming-bubble/

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/01/16/the-dreaded-methane-veil/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/01/12/refreeze-the-artic/

The opening clip of Dr. Peter Wadhams, Professor of Ocean Physics at the university of Cambridge was from December, 2013, replayed at a press conference by the Arctic Methane Emergency Group (http://ameg.me/) at the UN Conference on climate change in Lima, Peru in December, 2014. You can find the video of that press conference here:

http://unfccc6.meta-fusion.com/cop20/events/2014-12-04-12-30-abibimman-foundation-united-planet-faith-science-initiative/abibimman-foundation-united-planet-faith-science-initiative-2
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