The accelerating Arctic meltdown is worrying enough, but now newly published research on the health of the Antarctic ice cover is also ringing alarm bells. Is a big thaw on the way? In a recent comment added to my October 2007 post North Polar Meltdown, Bill Alex mentioned that while the northern polar ice is [...]
In the first of a new series of blog posts, I recall my early days and the circumstances that gave me a passion for radio — beginning with the pirate stations of the 1960s … On Monday the 14th of August 1967, at just after three o’clock in the afternoon, I sat alone in my [...]
