(2012/02/13) Where the money hits the road (Climate Change)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 14 February 2012
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
dition #575
Where the money hits the road
I'm riding 300 miles to raise money for fight climate change. Donate at:
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Act 1: Former Climate Skeptic Admits Global Warming is Real - David Pakman - Air Date: 11-3-11
Song 1: Don't stop believing - Journey
Act 2: Climate Change Deniers Koch Blocked - Majority Report - Air Date: 10-24-11
Song 2: Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra
Act 3: Another Foot Drag by Obama on Global Warming - The Progressive Air Date: 12-2-11
Song 3: Melt with you - Modern English
Act 4: Sen. Inhoff, Tea Party, brags about 'debunking' Climate Change - Green News Report - Air Date: 12-08-11
Song 4: Celebration guns - Stars
Act 5: Koch Brothers Exposed for Cancer Causing Pollution - Young Turks
Song 5: The fiddler's ballad - Jen Osha w/Wolf Creek Session
Act 6: Landowners Get Fracked By Oil Companies - Majority Report - Air Date: 12-07-11
Song 6: Live and let die - Guns N' Roses
Act 7: Consequences of increasing emissions - Green News Report - Air Date: 11-08-11
Song 7: Don't stop - Fleetwood Mac
Act 8: Solyndra Real Scandal Is Dirty Energy Subsidies - Young Turks - Air Date: 01-22-12
Song 8: Circles - Soul Coughing
Act 9: Fukushima and Global Warming - The Progressive Air Date: 12-29-11
Song 9: Beds are burning - Midnight Oil
Act 10: How To Destroy The Environment, Steal Money, Look Good Doing It - Lee Camp - Air Date: 01-30-12
Song 10: Goodbye blue sky - Pink Floyd
Act 11: 'Gasland' Journalists Arrested At Fracking Hearing- Young Turks Air Date: 2-1-12
Song 11: Turn my camera on - Spoon
Act 12: GOP "mad as a hatter" about EPA mercury regs - Jim Hightower Air Date: 1-26-12
Song 12: World spins madly on - The Weepies
Act 13: Strong climate advocate unseated in the Maldives - The Bugle Air Date: 2-10-12
Song 13: Take a chance - The Magic Numbers
Act 14: GOP Still Pushing Keystone XL Pipeline - Young Turks - Air Date 2-6-12
Voicemails:
Thoughts on sustainable agriculture and care for farm animals - Ben from Le Grange, KY
Call to action on art exhibition on women of color. Details at idistudios.com - Ijeoma in New York City
Thoughts and call to action on new mortgage deal just signed - Todd from LA
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Final comments on my fundraising ride from NYC to DC in May
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors of the show. |
| 0:05.6 | For details and visit the membership tab at BestOfAleft.com, now welcome to the award-winning |
| 0:10.2 | BestOfAleft podcast with clips today from the David Packent Show, the majority report, |
| 0:14.3 | the progressive, the green news report, the young Turks, comedian Lee Camp, Jim Hightower, |
| 0:19.3 | and the Bugle. |
| 0:20.3 | Outspoken climate skeptic, Richard Muller, who's a UC Berkeley physicist, has finally admitted |
| 0:35.6 | he was wrong about global warming. |
| 0:37.4 | He said he was wrong to doubt the effect of humans on global warming. |
| 0:41.6 | He said it in a piece for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:44.0 | He's a pretty outspoken professor. |
| 0:45.7 | He's known for being a part of this climate denial community. |
| 0:49.4 | He's ranted against Al Gore. |
| 0:51.1 | He's fueled the fire on alleged climate gait. |
| 0:54.4 | He created an independent study to look at all of the objections raised by climate skeptics, |
| 1:00.0 | and the team which worked under the Berkeley Earth Research, Earth Surface Temperature Project, |
| 1:04.9 | analyzed all sorts of data for months. |
| 1:08.0 | And he said global warming is real. |
| 1:09.8 | Perhaps our results will help cool this portion of the climate debate. |
| 1:13.5 | So Muller not only coming up with some facts about global warming, coming up with some |
| 1:18.8 | puns too. |
| 1:19.8 | Right. |
| 1:20.8 | Well, I mean, at least he did his own research and drew his own conclusions. |
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