(2013/07/01) Possible movement in the right direction (Climate)
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🗓️ 1 July 2013
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Edition #731
Possible movement in the right direction
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: 400 Parts in a Million The World's Biggest Experiment - YouTube User: MinuteEarth
Ch. 3: Song 1: Put it to the test - They might be giants
Ch. 4: Act 2: Christian End-Times Belief Blocking Climate Change Action: Study - Majority Report - Air Date: 06-04-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Partners in crime - Lucinda Williams
Ch. 6: Act 3: Mass Price Drop in Solar Power: No Longer 'Alternative?' - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 06-16-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Sunshine goodtime - Minnutes
Ch. 8: Act 4: How To Boil A Human - Lee Camp - Air Date: 05-18-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Rainbow connection - Kermit the Frog
Ch. 10: Act 5: For Obama, Political Risk Outweigh Risks of No Action on Climate Change - Rachel Maddow - Air Date: 06-19-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Time for action - Secret Affair
Ch. 12: Act 6: Obama's Promises to Go Over GOP Heads for Climate Change - The Young Turks - Air Date: 06-26-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Flat earth society - Bad Religion
Ch. 14: Act 7: Media Ignore Court Context Of Climate Change Regulations - Media Matters Minute - Air Date: 06-25-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Machine - David Ari Leon
Ch. 16: Act 8: Pollution Control, Energy Efficiency, and Bracing For Impact - Green News Report - Air Date 6-25-13
Ch. 18: Act 9: Beat the Heat - UnFuck it Up Project
Ch. 19: Song 9: I Didn't Fuck It Up - Katie Goodman
Ch. 20: Act 10: Why is Obama's Aggressive Climate Change Speech Getting Snubbed? - The Young Turks - Air Date: 06-27-13
Ch. 19: Song 10: Harold T. Wilkins, Or How To Wait For A Very Long Time - Fanfarlo
Ch. 20: Act 11: Time for the Fossil Fuel Industry to pay for their Waste - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 06-21-13
Voicemails:
Ch. 20: Thoughts on recognizing one's own white privilege - Jim from Detroit
Ch. 20: Looking for white responsibility, not white guilt - Elka from Fort Wayne, ID
Ch. 20: Good to hear some positivity - Anthony from Minneapolis, MN
Ch. 20: On nuance in the constitution and the fluidity of obscenity - Dave from Olympia, WA
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Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Final comments on the ideas and death oh Hypatia in Alexandria, Egypt
Activism:
http://joinsummerheat.org
http://gofossilfree.org
http://act.credoaction.com/sign/kxl_pledge?source=350_20130530_kxlpledge
http://350.org
Information for this segment can be found at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/19/tar-sands-exploitation-climate-scientist
President Obama’s speech:
Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FGpEbA6I6w
Read: http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/06/25/full-transcript-of-obamas-remarks-on-climate-change/
Sponsored by the UnFuck it Up Project: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Unfuck-It-Up/196389490396988
Katie Goodman, creator: http://katiegoodman.com
Katie Klabusich, director: http://katiespeak.com
Produced by:
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:05.7 | For details, visit the membership tab at bestoftheleft.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with Cups Today from Minute |
| 0:12.5 | Earth, the majority report, the David Pakman show, comedian Lee Camp, the Rachel Maddo |
| 0:17.2 | show, the Young Turks, the Media Matters Minute, the Green News report, activism from the |
| 0:22.2 | Unfucked Up project and the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:30.4 | Hello fellow scientists. |
| 0:32.0 | Thanks to your active collaboration, our study, the world's largest uncontrolled experiment, |
| 0:36.6 | crossed a historic milestone on May 9, 2013. |
| 0:39.8 | A head of schedule of the concentration of carbon dioxide gas in the Earth's atmosphere |
| 0:43.7 | has reached 400 parts per million. |
| 0:45.9 | This is a big change from 100 years ago when the concentration was just 300 parts per |
| 0:50.6 | million, below which it had stayed for more than 800,000 years. |
| 0:54.5 | We've used the most effective methods to increase the levels of CO2 in our atmosphere, |
| 0:58.8 | burning coal, oil and natural gas, chopping down forests, and surprisingly, making cement. |
| 1:04.6 | In some respects, 400 ppm is just an arbitrary figure, an attractively round number like |
| 1:10.0 | the 4 minute mile or the 7 billion mark for world population, but it indicates that |
| 1:14.4 | we've reached a new phase of our experiment. |
| 1:16.7 | Each day forward, we go deeper into territory uncharted in human history. |
| 1:21.2 | After 400 ppm, who knows what'll happen? |
| 1:24.2 | Actually, our preliminary results give us a pretty good idea. |
| 1:27.6 | We've seen more and bigger floods, fires, droughts, and storms, melting ice caps, |
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