(2010/08/24) Climate bill killed as the world melts (Climate Change)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 25 August 2010
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Edition #399
Climate bill killed as the world melts
Act 1: The trouble with fracking - Rachel Maddow
Song 1: That's all - Clare and the Reasons
Act 2: Obama on respecting science - Citizen Radio
Song 2: Where is my mind - The Pixies
Act 3: News of the warm Part 1 - Le Show
Song 3: Let's dace to Joy Division - The Wombats
Act 4: The cries from Pakistan - The Progressive
Song 4: Cry - James Blunt
Act 5: Lose 300 million pounds of CO2 - Slate.com
Song 5: Don't let's start - They Might Be Giants
Act 6: Climate bill killed - Young Turks
Song 6: I still haven't found what I'm looking for - U2
Act 7: The decline of the oil economy - The Bugle
Song 7: (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher & Higher - Jackie Wilson
Act 8: News of the warm Part 2 - Le Show
Song 8: Faster, sooner, now - David Gray
Act 9: Greenland ice island - Countdown
Song 9: Juno - Tokyo Police Club
Act 10: 2010 hottest year so far on record - Young Turks
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
The Climate Bill - Rachel Maddow
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| 0:09.0 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with Cubsiday from The Rachel Maddo |
| 0:13.1 | Show, Citizen Radio, Blasho, The Progressive Slate.com, The Young Turks, The Bugle and Countdown |
| 0:20.3 | with Keith Overman with a bonus video clip for our iPhone app users from The Rachel Maddo |
| 0:25.1 | Show. |
| 0:30.2 | We will continue the existing moratorium and suspend the issuance of new permits to |
| 0:35.4 | drill new deep water wells for six months. |
| 0:38.8 | We will suspend action on 33 deep water exploratory wells currently being drilled in the |
| 0:44.0 | Gulf of Mexico. |
| 0:46.2 | That was President Obama announcing a moratorium on new deep water drilling in the Gulf. |
| 0:50.5 | It seems like a very sensible response to the deep water horizon disaster and the reasoning |
| 0:55.0 | was clear. |
| 0:56.0 | While the technology exists to drill at 5,000 feet, we have absolutely no clue what to |
| 1:01.1 | do and how to do it when something goes wrong. |
| 1:05.0 | Moral BP plans to send down the containment dome to cover one of the two remaining leaks, |
| 1:10.5 | but this has never been tried before at 5,000 feet under the sea. |
| 1:15.8 | The Vice-University Professor Satish Nagaraja says this has never been tried and water |
| 1:20.4 | so deep. |
| 1:21.4 | I hope it works, it has not been used at that depth before. |
| 1:26.6 | These vessels started the long awaited top kill procedure this afternoon. |
| 1:30.5 | A maneuver never tried before, a mile beneath the sea. |
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