During the last year 2017 I have published 12 episodes, including this one. Please listen to the excerpts of the episodes that have been played most. This is a review of the FasterThanExpected podcast in 2017.

Peter Wadhams explains in a video from Nick Breeze that multi year ice is nearly gone in the Arctic ocean. This video is from Jan. 2015.
During the coming weeks I want to focus my attention on the Arctic. During the summer 2017 there has not been a blue ocean event, what had meant that the Arctic Ocean is nearly ice-free. This would have an enormous influence on the world‘s climate, because the Arctic is one of the global climate motors.
Finland‘s president Niinistö has put it in a nutshell during a meeting in North Russia:
Since I am concerned with abrupt climate change – and it‘s not a very long period, 3 or 4 years – I can observe a game in mainstream media and their publications about climate change: The period of time until the temperature of our planet is rising so steep, that we are facing consequences.

Nick Breeze has conducted an extraordinary interview with Dr. Natalia Shakhova and Dr. Igor Semiletov.
After Dr. Natalia Shakhova and Dr. Igor Semiletov have stirred up the public with the prediction of a 50 Gigaton methane burst, it has been silent from this side for a while. Now they are back with very clear and unvarnished statements.

Nick Breeze hat ein außergewöhnliches Interview mit Dr. Natalia Shakhova und Dr. Igor Semiletov geführt.
Nachdem Dr. Natalia Shakhova und Dr. Igor Semiletov die Öffentlichkeit mit der Vorhersage eines 50-Gigatonnen-Methan-Ausbruchs aufgescheucht hatten, war es eine Weile still aus dieser Richtung. Nun sind sie zurück mit sehr klaren, ungeschminkten Aussagen.
What makes a biologist like Guy McPherson suppose, that the climate change leads to the demise of the human species? One of the answers we will hear in this episode is: Habitat, habitat, habitat!
Gastartikel von Jürgen Hornschuh erstmals erschienen in englischer Sprache: 2°C to Midnight, or, In Paris We Trust (2017-05-05)
Unlängst feierte die Welt das Inkrafttreten des Pariser Übereinkommens von 2015 zur Begrenzung der menschengemachten globalen Erderwärmung – und wurde kurz darauf von der Ankündigung des neuen US-Präsidenten enttäuscht, gleich wieder aus diesem Vertrag aussteigen zu wollen.
The title
Faster Than Expected, subtitle: Schneller Als Gedacht
As I reworked the concept of my podcast, I realized that I had two different target audiences. So I decided to concentrate on one group: English speaking, worldwide connecting, community around abrupt climate change and the ongoing mass extinction.