I believe that disasters reveal society.

They are opportunities for us to actually pull back the curtain and see what some of the

deeper commitments and values of a society actually are.

This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show to support the work we do

for as little as a buck a month or to sign up as a member and get commercial free versions of

every episode. Plus members only bonus content find us on patreon or visit the contribute tab

at bestofleft.com. Now welcome to the award winning Best of a Left podcast with clips today

from start making sense from the nation magazine politically reactive on the media,

counterspin, decode DC, pop aganda 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 in modern record

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

and the real scandal here I think 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 September 11th 16 years ago this week nobody said oh

...