(2013/02/22) Forward on Climate (Climate)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 23 February 2013
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Summary
Edition #691
Forward on Climate
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Australia Getting So Hot They've Added New Colors to the Weather Map - Majority Report - Air Date: 01-14-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Is love enough (feat. Gentleman) - Michael Franti And Spearhead
Ch. 4: Act 2: Climate Change - The Story No One is Covering - The Young Turks - Air Date: 02-02-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Painted by numbers - The Sounds
Ch. 6: Act 3: What's With All This Strange Weather - CounterSpin - Air Date 1-18-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Like the weather - 10,000 Maniacs
Ch. 8: Act 4: Fox News Caught Lying/Knowing Nothing on Solar Power - The David Pakman Show - Air Date: 02-11-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Fluffy little clouds - The Orb
Ch. 10: Act 5: Ontario Phases Out Coal, First in North America to Do So - Young Turks - Air Date: 01-21-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: For greener pastures - Glen Simpson
Ch. 12: Act 6: Marco Rubio on Climate Change: Whatever, Man - Majority Report - Air Date: 02-08-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Lighting myself on fire - Jukebox The Ghost
Ch. 14: Act 7: Another Permian Extinction On The Way? - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 01-19-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: The last day on earth - Kate Miller-Heidke
Ch. 16: Act 8: Teaching Climate Change Denial in Schools Pushed in 3 States - Young Turks - Air Date: 02-01-13
Ch. 17: Song 8: Lead the way - Guardian
Ch. 18: Act 9: Climate Change Not The Primary Issue - CounterSpin - Air Date 1-25-13
Ch. 19: Song 9: Mystify - INXS
Ch. 20: Act 10: Keystone XL Protest: Students SuperGlue Themselves Together - Majority Report - Air Date: 01-14-13
Ch. 21: Song 10: Here's to you - Joan Baez
Ch. 20: Act 11: Billionaires Choking Out Climate Change Science - Young Turks - Air Date: 02-03-13
Ch. 21: Song 11: Take me home, country road - John Denver
Ch. 22: Act 12: Climate in the State of the Union - Green News Report - Air Date: 2-16-13
Ch. 23: Song 12: I'm Gonna Sit In 'Til You Give In - B.B. King
Ch. 24: Act 13: Street Heat Is the Best Chance for Cooling the Planet Down - The Progressive - Air Date: 2-14-13
Ch. 25: Song 13: Tonight the streets are ours - Richard Hawley
Ch. 26: Act 14: Obama Doesn't Need Congress to Fight Climate Change - Majority Report - Air Date: 02-13-13
Ch. 27: Song 14: Game over - Alexa Vega
Ch. 28: Act 15: The largest climate rally in US history - Green News Report - Air Date: 2-19-13
Voicemails:
Ch. 29: Thoughts on not criticizing Obama too much in red states - Megan from Cincinnati
Ch. 30: US citizens anywhere in the world should be covered by due process - Eric from Greenville, NC
Ch. 31: How to make the kill list moral and constitutional - Barry from Baltimore
Ch. 32: Where does the labeling of terrorists end? - Irene from Louisiana
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Ch. 33: Final comments on looking for insights into the thinking behind the drone program
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show, for details visit |
| 0:06.5 | the membership tab at bestivalf.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning bestivalf podcast with Cubsidate from the Majority Report, |
| 0:13.1 | the Young Turks, Counter-Stand, the David Pakman Show, the Tom Hartman program, the Green |
| 0:17.0 | News Report and the Progressive. |
| 0:30.2 | Coming out of Australia right now, in another sign of this country, this world, basically |
| 0:42.0 | heading towards a climate catastrophe, as if the smaller catastrophes that have been |
| 0:48.2 | brought about by climate change are not enough, just a broader catastrophe, leading to ultimately |
| 0:55.6 | I think the death of possibly billions of people, possibly billions, the destruction of |
| 1:04.7 | civilizations in many respects as we know it, because of the implications for our food supplies, |
| 1:12.0 | of the implications of people being able to live in less and less areas of the world. |
| 1:21.0 | Australia, their Bureau of Meteorology has updated its weather forecasting chart to reflect |
| 1:29.5 | rising temperatures. |
| 1:31.6 | They've had to introduce two never used before colors, deep purple and pink, to the |
| 1:38.5 | Bureau's temperature scale to indicate a range above 50 degrees Celsius, in other words, |
| 1:44.4 | a range above 125 degrees Fahrenheit, we give a less point to two. |
| 1:51.1 | The scale has just been increased today and I would anticipate it's because the forecast |
| 1:54.5 | coming from the Bureau's model is showing temperatures in excess of 50 degrees, the Bureau's |
| 1:59.3 | climate monitoring prediction unit chief, David Jones told the Sydney Morning Herald. |
| 2:04.4 | Now, of course, we all know there's a cottage industry for people like this and this guy |
| 2:09.0 | probably gets a bonus for every new color that he adds to the temperature scale, right? |
| 2:15.2 | I mean, that's the story we're led to believe. |
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