Peter Stock speaks with English Language and Literature professor Andrew McMurry about why the environmental movement should brush up on its classic Rhetoric.

On Saturday March 27th at 830pm, we are all supposed to turn off the lights for International Earth Hour. Tyler Irving asks Josh Laughren of WWF Canada why this is more than an empty gesture.

Climate change science seems to change from week to week, a fact that is not lost on the loud minority of climate denialists seeking to kick dirt on the growing facts of global climate change. But what do the new numbers tell us, and what effect does a constant stream of new numbers mean for the future of public discourse and international climate politics? Robert Frank from the New York Times updates Peter Stock on the latest climate research. Is Canada muzzling its climate scientists?

Government scientists can’t talk to the media without approval by their supervisors, who include cabinet ministers. The latest federal budget discontinued funding for the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences. Are scientists being silenced? Tyler Irving talks to Hannah McKinnon of the Climate Action Network about a new report called “Troubling Evidence – The Harper Government’s Approach to Climate Change Research in Canada.”

Tyler Irving hosts a discussion with Daryn Caister, Kevin Farmer and Jordan Poppenk about the state of climate policy in Canada and why more action has not apparent from successive federal governments.

Peter Stock coerces the staff of Alternatives Journal to do a radio dramatization of “Mending Our Fuelish Ways”, Kirk Gaudreau’s five act “play” in which five of Canada’s leading environmental thinkers share their views on Canada’s energy future.

Donna Vakalis speaks with Julian Smith, director of the Willowbank School about green architecture and reviving the design/craft ethos in archtectural studies.

Dylan Jervis speaks with Richard Peltier, professor of Physics at the University of Toronto and Director of The Centre for Global Change Science about how science professionals view the University of East Anglia climate change email controversy and what it all really means.