(2012/05/13) The climate of our discontent (Climate Change)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 13 May 2012
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Edition #605
The climate of our discontent
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Climate change denial think tank industries - Green News Report - Air Date: 2-16-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: Nantes - Beirut
Ch. 4: Act 2: Obama Wants High Gas Prices - Fox News Guest - Young Turks - Air Date: 4-8-12
Ch. 5: Song 2: Acorn factory - The Dodos
Ch. 6: Act 3: Big Oil More Powerful Than Government - Rachel Maddow - Air Date: 5-2-12
Ch. 7: Song 3: Crystalised - The XX
Ch. 8: Act 4: Climate Change Predictions Made 30 Years Ago Prove Accurate - Majority Report - Air Date: 4-19-12
Ch. 9: Song 4: Walking on sunshine - Katrina And The Waves
Ch. 10: Act 5: Fox News Lie Wind Farms Cause Global Warming - David Pakman - Air Date 5-3-12
Ch. 11: Song 5: Peace of mind - Finniston
Ch. 12: Act 6: Climate Change Coverage Plummets On Broadcast Networks Study - Young Turks - Air Date 4-22-12
Ch. 13: Song 6: Ignore the ignorant - The Cribs
Ch. 14: Act 7: Climate Wars: The Conservative Smear Campaign to Discredit Climate Scientists - Majority Report - Air Date: 4-25-12
Ch. 15: Song 7: Circle of life - Elton John & London Community Gospel Choir
Ch. 16: Act 8: The Human Race & Other Evil Little Bastards - Lee Camp - Air Date: 4-18-12
Ch. 17: Song 8: Across the universe - Rufas Wainwright
Ch. 18: Act 9: Charlie Foster: The most invasive species - Story Collider - Air Date: 2-19-12
Voicemails:
White privilege is a myth - Dave in Mass
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Ch. 19: Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 20: Final comments on privilege, oppression, weather and climate
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:05.6 | For details, visit the membership tab at bestablebuff.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left Podcasts with Cups Today from the |
| 0:12.0 | Green News Report, The Young Turks, The Rachel Maddo Show, The Majority Report, The David |
| 0:16.0 | Pacman Show, Comedian League Camp, and The Story Collider. |
| 0:19.8 | And a note for our more sensitive listeners, this episode deals with climate science and |
| 0:23.6 | does not provide equal time for climate fiction. |
| 0:30.0 | It's been an extraordinary week for the climate change denial industry. |
| 0:33.9 | First up, if you want to influence the public, get a super rich sugar daddy to buy UA |
| 0:38.8 | TV network. |
| 0:39.8 | The diversing some time and effort to encourage those we know who are super rich, to invest |
| 0:45.3 | in past even establishing a new satellite TV channel is not an expensive thing. |
| 0:50.8 | That's the bald strategy recommended by Britain's discredited climate change denyer, Lord |
| 0:55.3 | Christopher Monkton, who recently advised a so-called libertarian think tank in Australia |
| 1:00.5 | on how to use the media to benefit the coal mining industry. |
| 1:04.7 | Monkton goes on to praise Fox News in the US as a model for pushing back on Australia's |
| 1:09.8 | new carbon tax on its biggest polluters. |
| 1:12.8 | In the US, a treasure trove of documents exposing the inner workings of the climate change |
| 1:18.2 | denial think tank, The Heartland Institute, were released this week by online media outlets |
| 1:23.3 | ThinkProgress.org and DismogBlog.com to websites that track the climate change denial industry. |
| 1:30.2 | Someone posing as a Heartland Institute board member obtained confidential internal documents |
| 1:34.8 | under false pretenses and passed those documents on to the websites. |
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