Rag Radio Podcast: Environmental Researcher & Activist Bruce Melton – Covid and Climate Change

Thorne Dreyer’s guest is environmental researcher and activist Bruce Melton. Bruce, a longtime contributor to The Rag Blog and frequent guest on Rag Radio, is a professional engineer, filmmaker, author, and CEO of the Climate Change Now Initiative, the oldest independent climate science education organization in the world, founded in 2005. On the show Melton discusses issues raised in his current Rag Blog article, titled “Covid-19, Climate Change, permafrost collapse and our new, abruptly evolving culture.” In the article, he says that “permafrost collapse from climate change is 70 years ahead of schedule… [and that] new research is showing reanimation of viruses preserved in permafrost is real…” Please read Bruce’s article here. We are joined on the show by Rag Radio engineer Tracey Schulz and our colleague, Suzy Shelor. Link to Interview