Weather Break

Click here to listen to episode 622 of Weather Break.
Yesterday we talked about the ways that one can get fresh, clean drinking water directly from the atmosphere through the process known as harvesting dew.  This can be a reliable, eco-friendly way to get small quantities of water, but you aren’t going to be able to [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 621 of Weather Break.
Everyone knows that we all need to work to conserve fresh water resources.  However, in some parts of the world, access to fresh, clean water is far more limited than what we are accustomed to in the United States.  There is an increased interest in recent [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 596 of Weather Break.
Climate change and global warming have become — no pun intended — heated topics of debate in the United States in recent years.  There are legitimate scientific questions and issues on both sides of the discussion about whether or not human activity is contributing to the [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 584 of Weather Break.
Perhaps you’ve seen on the news lately that there is a scientist who is claiming that Australia doesn’t have FOUR seasons like most parts of the world–rather, he says, a typical Australian year has SIX seasons.  Probably the main reason that this story has been in [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 575 of Weather Break.
Yesterday on Weather Break, we started talking about Snowball Earth–the idea that the entire Earth (including the tropics!) has been buried under snow and ice several times over the last few billion years.  The so-called Snowball Earth hypothesis is quite controversial, in part because most of [...]

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