(2013/01/14) Setting records (Climate Change)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 15 January 2013
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Edition #678
Setting records
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Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Climate Change Data - CO2 Emissions Worse Than Thought - The Young Turks - Air Date: 12-01-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: Underwater - Born Loser and the Hangers On
Ch. 4: Act 2: Sweden Turns Trash to Energy, Only 4% Reaches Landfill - The David Pakman Show - Air Date: 11-04-12
Ch. 5: Song 2: Time to take out the trash - Brad Sucks
Ch. 6: Act 3: What's Not To Love About Fracking? - CounterSpin - Air Date 12-21-12
Ch. 7: Song 3: North by North - Faded Paper Figures
Ch. 8: Act 4: Oil is a 'Gift From God?' For Who? - The Young Turks - Air Date: 12-04-12
Ch. 9: Song 4: We are all made of stars - Moby
Ch. 10: Act 5: Climate Change Wrecking Italy, Scientists Warn "It Gets Worse" - Majority Report - Air Date: 12-26-12
Ch. 11: Song 5: Sunday, Bloody Sunday - U2
Ch. 12: Act 6: Grounded Rig Calls into Question Shell Competence - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 1-3-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Missed the boat - Modest Mouse
Ch. 14: Act 7: Climate Change Studies: Less than 1% Reject Global Warming - The Young Turks - Air Date: 12-16-12
Ch. 15: Song 7: Say goodbye - Ian Rhett
Ch. 16: Act 8: Caller: What About the Environmental Cliff? - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 01-05-13
Ch. 17: Song 8: Fire escapes - Fanfarlo
Ch. 18: Act 9: Inconsistencies Found in Shell Story of Grounded Rig - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 1-9-13
Ch. 19: Song 9: Deep in the sweetwater - Rasputina
Ch. 20: Act 10: Climate Change Fake? World Has Never Been Hotter - The Young Turks - Air Date: 01-09-13
Ch. 21: Song 10: Change of time - Josh Ritter
Ch. 22: Act 11: 2012 Hottest Year on Record - The David Pakman Show - Air Date: 01-10-13
Voicemails:
Ch. 23: Assault rifles are an ounce of prevention - Wade from Ft. Worth, TX
Ch. 24: Challenge to rethink the slippery slope - Christine from St. Louis
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Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 25: Final comments on arms races and stepping back from the brink
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show, for details visit |
| 0:06.3 | the membership tab at bestablef.com Now, welcome to the award-winning Best of Left Podcasts |
| 0:11.2 | with Composite from the Young Turks, the David Pakman Show, Counter-Spin at the Majority |
| 0:15.2 | Report, the Rachel Maddow Show and the Tom Hartman Program. |
| 0:30.2 | A long story short, the world is melting and it's melting faster than we thought it was |
| 0:34.0 | unfortunately. |
| 0:35.0 | So we have some interesting data in a couple of different areas. |
| 0:36.9 | One of the most important is that global carbon dioxide emissions in 2011 hit record |
| 0:41.9 | highs. |
| 0:42.9 | So you see up 3.2% now, a lot of that is due to China. |
| 0:48.1 | Actually interestingly, America had I think 1.7% fewer emissions in 2011. |
| 0:53.3 | Maybe that's why they were so mad at Obama. |
| 0:56.3 | Well, you want more, I don't know if you're going to get some stacks going here. |
| 1:00.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:01.9 | Unfortunately, Japan's emissions slightly up because they're not using as much nuclear |
| 1:04.7 | energy, obviously, after the Fukushima problem. |
| 1:07.7 | So that's obviously bad. |
| 1:09.3 | We don't want global emissions to be going higher. |
| 1:12.1 | Also there's some consequences of this. |
| 1:14.2 | Sea levels have been rising 60% faster than originally expected. |
| 1:18.1 | Now this is during the period of roughly about 1990 to 2010. |
| 1:21.9 | So you see 60% faster and that continues now. |
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