(2012/08/15) Consider the true costs (Climate)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 15 August 2012
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Edition #633
Consider the true costs
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Exxon Mobil CEO: Climate Change is No Big Deal, We'll Just Adapt! - Majority Report - Air Date: 07-02-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: For greener pastures - Glen Simpson
Ch. 4: Act 2: Sharing The Page - Counterspin - Air Date 7-12-12
Ch. 5: Song 2: Meet Me On The Equinox - Death Cab For Cutie
Ch. 6: Act 3: Power Shift Climate SOS - BotL Activism Update
Ch. 7: Song 3: Summer in the city - The Lovin' Spoonful
Ch. 8: Act 4: News Of The Warm Polar Regions - Le Show - Air Date 6-24-12
Ch. 9: Song 4: The day the world came together - 350.org
Ch. 10: Act 5: Energy's True Cost - A Converted Skeptic Pt. 1 - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 7-30-12
Ch. 11: Song 5: Silver lining - Rilo Kiley
Ch. 12: Act 6: Tar Sands Blockade Teaser Trailer - Tar Sands Blockade - Air Date: 8-5-12
Ch. 13: Act 7: Energy's True Cost - A Converted Skeptic Pt. 2 - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 7-30-12
Ch. 14: Song 7: Because the world needs to know - 350.org
Ch. 15: Act 8: Fringe Science Expert - Counterspin - Air Date 7-27-12
Ch. 16: Song 8: Science is real - They might be giants
Ch. 17: Act 9: How the Massive Droughts Remind Us It's a Good Time for the Government to Borrow More Money - Majority Report - Air Date: 07-30-12
Ch. 18: Song 9: Peacocks - The Mountain Goats
Ch. 19: Act 10: Finally A Climate Hearing - Green News Report - Air Date 8-2-12
Ch. 20: Song 10: Close To Me [Closet Remix] - The Cure
Ch. 21: Act 11: The Global Warming Check List - The Progressive - Air Date: 8-9-12
Ch. 22: Song 11: Kilimanjaro - Emma's Revolution
Ch. 23: Act 12: Fracking Waste Messes with Texas - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 8-7-12
Activism links:
WeArePowerShift.org/campaigns/ClimateSoS
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Lauren [at] BestoftheLeft [dot] com
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 25: Final comments on Malcolm Gladwell's book Blink and the difference between knowledge and understanding
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show, for details visit |
| 0:05.6 | the membership tab at BestOfAleft.com. |
| 0:08.2 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfAleft podcast with Cups today from the Majority Report, |
| 0:12.4 | CounterSpin, a BestOfAleft activism update, Lesho, The Rachel Maddo Show, The Green News |
| 0:17.1 | Report, The Progressive, and Interviews from On the Ground at the Tarsans blockade in Texas. |
| 0:23.3 | And a note for our more sensitive listeners, this episode refers to discredited French |
| 0:26.6 | science as discredited French science. |
| 0:30.2 | CEO of ExxonMobile, essentially talking about climate change, speaking at the Council |
| 0:39.4 | for Foreign Relations, said this in giving a major address, that climate change is not |
| 0:50.4 | as serious as lazy journalists and in a literate public belief. |
| 0:58.1 | He has admitted there is a correlation between climate change and the burning of fossil |
| 1:02.4 | fuels. |
| 1:03.4 | He just thinks it's not going to be that big of a deal. |
| 1:10.8 | He claims to be working with a very good team at MIT for more than 20 years on this area |
| 1:16.0 | of modeling the climate, in other words, predicting the implications of climate change. |
| 1:24.4 | And he says the competencies of the models are not particularly good, however, MIT's Ronald |
| 1:30.2 | Prince disagrees, says the models are certainly good enough to clearly show the benefits |
| 1:34.8 | of mitigation policies compared to no policy. |
| 1:39.0 | In lowering risk, we cannot wait for perfection in climate forecast before taking action. |
| 1:44.9 | Is it any surprise that there is no model out there as to what happens when for the |
| 1:53.5 | first time in human history, man has the capacity to affect global climate change. |
| 2:03.3 | And these models will not be able to tell you exactly what's happening. |
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