(2012/10/08) Doing the math (Climate)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 8 October 2012
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Edition #651
Doing the math
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Nuclear Reactor Unprepared For Global Warming - Majority Report - Air Date: 08-15-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: Don't ask me why - Billy Joel
Ch. 4: Act 2: No Silver Lining in Arctic Melting - The Progressive - Air Date: 8-28-12
Ch. 5: Song 2: Animal - Neon Trees
Ch. 6: Act 3: Heal The Planet... Just Kidding Folks - Green News Report - Air Date 9-4-12
Ch. 7: Song 3: Say something else - The Morenas
Ch. 8: Act 4: Romney's Hamm-handed energy policy - Jim Hightower - Air Date: 9-12-12
Ch. 9: Song 4: Hello, my treacherous friends - OK Go
Ch. 10: Act 5: Ice, Ice Maybe? Arctic Ice Disappearing - The Young Turks - Air Date: 09-16-12
Ch. 11: Song 5: Fly like an eagle - Seal
Ch. 12: Act 6: Division Between The Parties - Green News Report - Air Date 9-11-12
Ch. 13: Song 6: Ignore the ignorant - The Cribs
Ch. 14: Act 7: Join Bill McKibben's Fight Against the Fossil Fuel Companies - The Progressive - Air Date: 9-21-12
Ch. 15: Song 7: Moving planet - 350.org
Ch. 16: Act 8: Arctic Sea Ice Levels Hit Record Low - The Young Turks - Air Date: 09-24-12
Ch. 17: Song 8: The bubble machine - Leslie Bricusse
Ch. 18: Act 9: Activists Successfully Stall Fracking - Majority Report - Air Date: 10-01-12
Ch. 19: Song 9: Everybody's free (to feel good) - Rozalla
Ch. 20: Act 10: NASA Scientist: How to Grow Our Own Energy - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 10-03-12
Ch. 21: Song 10: The world at large - Modest Mouse
Ch. 22: Act 11: The Most Terrifying Video You'll Ever See - wonderingmind42 on YouTube
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:05.8 | For details visit the membership tab at BestOfTheLeft.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with whom today from the Majority Report, |
| 0:13.0 | the Progressive, the Green News Report, Gem Hightower, the Young Turks, the David Pakman |
| 0:16.8 | show, and Wandering Mind 42 from YouTube. |
| 0:20.0 | And a note for all listeners that there's a little bit of hope in the end of this episode, |
| 0:23.5 | so please try to make it to that before giving up in despair. |
| 0:30.0 | It's a fairly innocuous story, a reactor at the Milestone nuclear plant in Waterford, Connecticut. |
| 0:39.0 | And I remember that nuclear plant well, actually. |
| 0:41.6 | I went to college right around there, and the cooler students who would live off campus, |
| 0:49.3 | of which I was not one, would all rent like these nice houses on the water, but it would |
| 0:57.1 | overlook, literally overlook, the nuclear power plant because it tends to bring down |
| 1:03.0 | the rental values, I guess. |
| 1:07.6 | Has been shut down because of something that in the 1960s, and I should say this piece |
| 1:13.1 | from the New York Times written by Matthew L. Wald, something in that 1960s designers |
| 1:18.5 | never anticipated, the water in the Long Island Sound was too warm to cool it. |
| 1:26.2 | Under the reactor safety rules, the cooling water can be no higher than 75 degrees. |
| 1:31.1 | On Sunday afternoon, the water's temperature soared to 76.7 degrees, prompting the operator |
| 1:39.0 | to order the shutdown of the 880 megawatt reactor. |
| 1:44.3 | Temperatures this summer are the warmest we've had since operations began here at Milestone. |
| 1:50.0 | Plant's first reactor now retired began operation in 1970. |
| 1:54.4 | Now this should come as little surprise, July was the hottest July on record in the United |
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