Latest General audience Podcast Episodes

Episode 7 Where Are We Now?

Warming World Explained - January 18, 2023 03:00 - 13 minutes
An update on what has been happe3ning and what scientists worldwide are saying now.

Episode 6 Why 97% of climate scientists believe humans are causing climate change

Warming World Explained - December 12, 2020 02:00 - 15 minutes
A discussion of some of the evidence driving the consensus among climate scientists that we are seeing human-caused climate change.

Episode 5 Energy and Heat

Warming World Explained - June 04, 2020 06:00 - 14 minutes
In this episode we discuss the meaning of energy and different ways the word is used in different disciplines.  We discuss the conversion of energy from one form to another and the fact that although the total quantity of energy is the same after any process as before, some of the energy is alwa...

Episode 4 Why Predictions Are Hard

Warming World Explained - March 15, 2020 01:00 - 17 minutes
A discussion of what computers models are, how they fit into the science of climate change,  and why modeling clouds  still causes controversy among climate scientists.

Episode 3 Vicious Cycles

Warming World Explained - November 14, 2019 04:00 - 12 minutes
Vicious cycles, or positive feedback loops, are described in which a little warming causes a change which causes more warming.  The result is that we may expect the rate of warming to increase.

Episode 3 Vicious Cycles

Warming World Explained - November 14, 2019 04:00 - 12 minutes
Vicious cycles, or positive feedback loops, are described in which a little warming causes a change which causes more warming.  The result is that we may expect the rate of warming to increase.

Episode 2 The Greenhouse Effect

Warming World Explained - October 17, 2019 05:00 - 14 minutes
In order to maintain a constant temperature, the earth would have to lose an amount of energy equal to that which it receives from the sun. This episode discusses how common greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor make it harder for the earth to lose  energy, resulting in ...

Episode 1 Introduction

Warming World Explained - August 01, 2019 03:00 - 12 minutes
Introducing Warming World Explained, a nonpolitical podcast clarifying the basic science underlying climate questions for a general audience.  This  episode introduces the host, discusses some of the topics to be covered,  and then discusses some preliminary issues.