Earth Day - Best of Coast to Coast AM - 4/22/26
The Best of Coast to Coast AM
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🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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George Noory and paleontologist Peter Ward mark the anniversary of Earth Day that started the modern environmental movement in 1970, the threat to mankind's global crops due to climate change, and hypothesize how the Moon could have been created.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on IHeart Radio. |
| 0:09.3 | And welcome back to coast to coast. |
| 0:11.1 | George Norrie with you. |
| 0:12.2 | Peter Ward back with us, paleontologist, ecologist, and astronomer at the University of Washington. |
| 0:18.4 | He's the author of a number of books, at least 20, about science for the public, |
| 0:22.3 | including books on estimations of frequency of extraterrestrial life, vast extinctions of the past, |
| 0:29.3 | climate and climate change, and past and future evolution. Peter Ward, back on coast to coast. |
| 0:34.9 | Hello, Peter. |
| 0:36.6 | Hey, George. Thank you again for having me. |
| 0:39.4 | And aren't we a couple of long-lived humans now? |
| 0:42.8 | Absolutely. Let's just keep doing it, huh? |
| 0:46.2 | Yeah, a happy Earth Day, too. I'm trying to figure out if I could remember when the first Earth Day was. |
| 0:52.3 | It seemed to be kind of a hippie-dippy, long-haired, |
| 0:56.0 | bead-rattling first occurrence of it. I don't really understand what it's evolved into, |
| 1:03.1 | but I'm really glad we still celebrate this planet. What does Earth Day mean to you, Peter? |
| 1:08.5 | Well, I'm just, I'm really glad that we're still on it. You and I and all the |
| 1:13.3 | people that we care about. It certainly is a changing place, isn't it? Since I've talked to you last, |
| 1:20.7 | I've been to Papua New Guinea again. I did a long trip there. I've just wrapped a new TV series |
| 1:26.2 | that I think you guys are going to want to hear about. |
| 1:28.7 | Future Evolution. It's a co-production of France and Australia. And we worked in Europe. We worked |
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