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

Podcast, where we remember the past and choose to repeat it.

Surprising no one who's been paying attention we are continuing to experience high-profile

extreme weather disasters. Also not surprising, we've known what to do about it for a long time so today we look back to

only 2023 that we could have gone much farther to this episode about the climate action

we need and so to look back with an eye to the future sources today include the

broadcast democracy now counterspin jordan report Today Explained, Vox, and a speak by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, announcing the reintroduction of the Greenville.

In one sense, I know that you, like us, have been warning about exactly this for a long time.

Is it still difficult to wrap your head around today, nonetheless?

It is.

I think that, you know, while my expectations might have been for some of these records,

um, everything everywhere all at once is kind of how it feels right now.

Yeah.

It feels that way as a reporter.

It feels that way as just a person on Earth.

You know, the global records were not something that I had expected to jump out this

early in July.

The peak is usually later in July towards early August. It's pretty much a done deal that July will be the hottest July on

record and most likely the hottest month that we've seen since records began. But the extremes

aren't in themselves surprising. What is becoming very clear, though,

is the shortened window between them. So, you know, Vermont, New Hampshire, New York State

got hit really hard with flooding from the left from the remains of Hurricane Irene in 2011.

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