(2011/07/21) The dangers of inaction (Climate Change)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 21 July 2011
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Edition #510
The dangers of inaction
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Act 1: New effects of Climate Change - Green News Report
Song 1: The Edge Of The Ocean - Ivy
Act 2: Mark Ruffalo on Fracking Up - Countdown Air Date: 07-14-11
Song 2: Zebra - Beach House
Act 3: Drilling for Natural Gas (Fracking) - BBC News Quiz - Air Date: 06-03-11
Song 3: Mistakable Mr. Smith - Ten Story Relapse
Act 4: Standing room only - Need to Know
Song 4: Standing - VNV Nation
Act 5: Massey Energy's murderous lies - Jim Hightower
Song 5: The Fiddler's Ballad - Jen Osha w/Wolf Creek Session
Act 6: Republicans Politicizing Global Warming - Counterspin Air Date: 06-16-11
Song 6: Living Planet - Emma's Revolution
Act 7: Norfolk Virginia's Seawater problem - Need to Know - Air Date: 06-24-11
Song 7: Deep in the sweetwater - Rasputina
Act 8: Saudi Prince wants to deter alternative energies and the UN Reports on Global Green House Gas Emissions - Green News Report
Song 8: I predict a riot - Kaiser Chiefs
Act 9: Wind Turbine Issues - Green.tv Air Date: 07-14-11
Song 9: Winter winds - Mumford & Sons
Act 10: Massey Energy's man-made hell hole - Jim Hightower Air Date 07/14/11
Song 10: Ghosts - Fanfarlo
Act 11: Story of coal documentary film Mountaintop Removal - Need to Know Air Date: 06-17-11
Voicemails:
Story of coal documentary film Mountaintop Removal - Need to Know Air Date: 06-17-11
KY devastated by coal as well - Raven from Louisville, KY
Call to action: join US Uncut Philly - Kevin from Philadelphia
Thanks for police state episode hidden stories - Carlos From Chicagoland
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Final comments on an update to the Messaging Works idea
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
The civil war over climate change - Need to Know
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show, for details of |
| 0:05.4 | visit the membership tab at bestableleft.com. |
| 0:08.4 | Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with Cups today from the Green |
| 0:12.1 | News Report, Countdown with Keith Alberman, the BBC News Quiz, PBS's Need to Know, Jim |
| 0:17.2 | Hightower, Counter-Spin and Green.tv, with a bonus clip for Apple iOS and Android app |
| 0:22.7 | users from Need to Know. |
| 0:30.2 | First, a sobering new study concludes that earlier projections of sea-level rise by the |
| 0:35.6 | end of this century are woefully underestimated. |
| 0:39.0 | Good news, everything's not as bad as they've predicted and everything's going to be okay. |
| 0:43.0 | As usual, these revisions all go in the same direction upward and worse. |
| 0:48.0 | The new estimate says that accelerating rates of melting polar ice sheets may lead to a |
| 0:52.6 | sea-level rise of three to five feet over the next 90 years. |
| 0:57.4 | That's three to five feet. |
| 0:59.8 | Previous estimates of sea-level rise due to global warming from the UN Intergovernmental |
| 1:03.9 | Panel on Climate Change of less than one foot were troubling enough, but explicitly did |
| 1:09.8 | not include estimates of melting polar ice caps and the Greenland ice sheet due to lack |
| 1:14.8 | of data. |
| 1:15.8 | But now, the International Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program includes that data |
| 1:20.4 | for the first time, and again, says by 2100, we might be looking at three to five feet. |
| 1:26.8 | So when we're talking about a rise of three to five feet in sea-level, we're not talking |
| 1:30.8 | about the water moving in three to five feet from the ocean if you happen to live there. |
| 1:35.5 | We're talking about the water moving in potentially miles inland and affecting billions of |
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