Welcome to this throwback edition of the award-winning Best of the Left Podcast

where we remember the past and choose to repeat it. Today's episode was

originally published in September 2017, but it's still perfectly relevant today as extreme weather season heats up and headlines about storms and death tolls cross our news feeds daily, regardless of whether the media chooses to mention the obvious impact of climate chaos.

Sources today include start making sense, politically reactive, on the media,

counter-spin, Deco DC,

Papa Ganda from Bitch Media, and the Bradcast. Well Scott Pruitt who Trump appointed to head the EPA says we should focus on helping victims of the hurricanes in Florida and

Texas this week and not debating climate change I think you have a different view

of course the victims need to be helped. There's no debate about that.

Mr Pruitt is trying to sidestep his shameful avoidance of the overwhelming scientific message from the entire world scientific

community that hurricanes like Irma and Harvey before it are made much worse by global warming and this is

simple physics this is not controversial hot air holds more water and what goes

up must come down.

So that's why you had, in the case of Harvey, the greatest amount of rainfall ever dropped

in one place in the United States and modern record keeping era and likewise

Irma was the strongest hurricane ever measured coming out of the Atlantic and

the real scandal here I, is how so many people in the political world

and the media world, frankly, are still letting the GOP, the Republicans get away with

this, to even have this conversation about it being oh this is

insensitive to talk about climate change nobody said that for example after the

terrorist attacks in septemberth, 16 years ago this week.

Nobody said, oh, we shouldn't talk about the causes of terrorism in the aftermath of 9-11.

That was a lot of what we talked about and rightfully so.

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