(2011/06/28) Making the connection (Climate)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 28 June 2011
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Edition #502
Making the connection
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Act 1: Coal Lobby Warns Wind Farms May Blow Earth Off Orbit - The Onion
Song 1: Actual coal propaganda song - Crazy, right?
Act 2: A link between climate change and Joplin tornadoes. Never. - Bill McKibben OpEd
Song 2: Arclight - VNV Nation
Act 3: Great Lakes May Beat Atlantic To Offshore Wind - NPR
Song 3: Winter winds - Mumford & Sons
Act 4: Gore Slams Obama On Climate Change - Young Turks
Song 4: A few honest words - Ben Sollee
Act 5: Canadian Oilverlords - Daily Show
Song 5: I Can See Clearly Now - Jimmy Cliff
Act 6: Nebraska Nuclear Power Plant on Verge of Shutdown, Media Ignores- David Pakman- Air Date: 06-21-11
Song 6: Wonderwall - Vitamin String Quartet
Act 7: Memo to Conservatives: Solar Physicists are NOT Climate Scientists - Media Matters
Song 7: Wonderwall - Vitamin String Quartet
Act 8: Yacht Maker Now Navigating Wind Power Industry - NPR
Song 8: Blowin' In The Wind - Bob Dylan
Act 9: Oil Anthem - Mark Fiore
Song 9: American music - Violent Femmes
Act 10: RFK Jr - The Last Mountain - Thom Hartmann Air Date: 06-03-11
Song 10: For Greener Pastures - Glen Simpson
Act 11: Now We Have To Wage War On Grolar Bears - Lee Camp
Song 11: Polar bear - The Quiet Two
Act 12: A turning point we can't afford to ignore - Johann Hari
Voicemails:
Critique of media bias discussion - TC from State College, PA
Reaction to Lee Camp vs Limbaugh - Patrick from Dallas
Completely wrong interpretation of the Limbaugh Vs Lee Camp comparison - Cliff from the University of Maine
Voicemail Music:
Ghostwriter - RjD2
Final comments correcting Cliff from U of M and pre-announcing an announcement about the website
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
President Bachmann Will Allow You to Buy Any Light Bulb You Want - Daily Show
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| 0:00.0 | This program is brought to you by Stitcher Smart Radio, download their free mobile app and |
| 0:04.7 | use the promo code BEST during activation for a chance to win $100. |
| 0:08.8 | Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left Podcast with Kup Today from the Onion |
| 0:12.2 | Radio News, an op-ed article by Bill McKibbin, NPR, The Young Turks, The Daily Show, Media |
| 0:17.9 | Matters, The David Pakman Show, MarkFury.com, The Tom Harmon Program, Comedian Lee Camp, |
| 0:22.8 | and journalist Johan Hari with a bonus clip for our Apple iOS and Android app users by |
| 0:27.1 | the Ridiculous Michelle Pakman. |
| 0:29.1 | Wind Power is gaining popularity as a clean, renewable energy source, but is it dangerous? |
| 0:35.8 | This week the American Colobby released a new advertisement warning, wind turbines could |
| 0:39.8 | blow the earth out of its orbit. |
| 0:41.8 | Let's watch it. |
| 0:42.8 | The Earth's orbit, all life depends on it. |
| 0:45.9 | A little closer to the sun will burn up, a little farther away, will freeze, but wind |
| 0:52.0 | farmers want to install thousands of propellers onto the earth, and propellers make things |
| 0:57.5 | move. |
| 0:58.5 | We like this planet, let's not blow it away. |
| 1:05.4 | Chilling stuff. |
| 1:06.4 | So, a panel is a time to reconsider wind energy. |
| 1:08.6 | I think we have to. |
| 1:09.6 | I always assume that wind energy was harmless, but after seeing this ad, I am not so sure. |
| 1:14.8 | Some leading scientists at Cole University recently took me out to dinner and told me about |
| 1:18.5 | the study they had just published. |
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