(2014/02/02) It's hot, it's cold, it's polluted (Climate/Energy)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 3 February 2014
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Edition #795
It's hot, it's cold, it's polluted
Who knew that incredibly complex weather patterns could be explained but something other than thoughtless gut reaction? We learn about the polar vortex, the West Virginia chemical spill and the life cycle of fracked natural gas.
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Right mocks rescued climate scientists - @allinwithchris Hayes - Air Date: 01-02-14
Ch. 3: Song 1: Misery (Acoustic) - Maroon 5
Ch. 4: Act 2: Why is it so Darn Cold? - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date: 01-06-14
Ch. 5: Song 2: The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get (Remastered) - Morrissey
Ch. 6: Act 3: Chilling The Debate On Global Warming - @FAIRmediawatch - Air Date 1-10-14
Ch. 7: Song 3: The fix is in - Ok Go
Ch. 8: Act 4: 'Freedom Industries' Poisons West Virginia - @majorityfm - Air Date: 01-13-14
Ch. 9: Song 4: Freedom - Music Themes Group
Ch. 10: Act 5: What Happens in West Virginia Doesn't Stay in West Virginia - Rachel @maddow - Air Date: 1-14-14
Ch. 11: Song 5: Rivers and roads - The Head and the Heart
Ch. 12: Act 6: Criminal Freedom Industries Admit to Contaminating Water More Than Previously Thought - @majorityfm - Air Date: 01-31-14
Ch. 13: Song 6: Oops and move on - Henry Phillips
Ch. 14: Act 7: You Won't Believe Who's Teaching Children To LOVE Fracking! - @LeeCamp - Air Date: 01-13-14
Ch. 15: Song 7: Programmed - Trapper Schoepp Band
Ch. 16: Act 8: Clean energy, not Cove Point - Mike Tidwell of Chesapeake Climate Action Network (@CCAN)
Ch. 17: Song 8: Buildin' Slow - Here's to the Long Haul
Ch. 18: Act 9: Obama Relies On Corrupt Consultants For Crucial Environmental Report - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 02-01-14
Ch. 19: Song 9: Blame Me! Blame Me! - Anberlin
Ch. 20: Act 10: The Solutions Project - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 21: Song 10: Activism - Shihan
Ch. 22: Act 11: Just 0.01% of Climate Scientists Reject Global Warming - @davidpakmanshow - Air Date: 01-16-14
Ch. 23: Song 11: Less is more - Laura Love
Ch. 24: Act 12: Bill Moyers Essay: When Congressmen Deny Climate Change and Evolution - @BillMoyers & Company - Air Date: 1-24-14
Voicemails:
Ch. 25: Thoughts on queerness and rights of the fetus - Jake from New Hampshire
Ch. 26: Without a clear consensus on personhood, government would be overstepping to restrict abortions - Michael from New Jersey
Ch. 27: Personhood is really not that big of an issue, body autonomy is - Max from Brooklyn, NY
Ch. 28: Reproductive rights debate is about shaming women for having sex - Avera from Alabama
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 29: Final comments on bodily autonomy and the problem with the whole debate
Closing Music:
Here We Are - Patrick Park
ACTIVISM:
The Solutions Project
Other Activism:
Put Solar on It
Sources/further reading:
Empowered by Light
"Mark Ruffalo Wants You To Imagine a 100 Percent Clean Energy Future" h/t Inquiring Minds Podcast with Chris Mooney and Indre Viskontas
"How to Power the Word” via Scientific American
Gasland The Movie (I and II)
Mark Ruffalo, Josh Fox and The Solutions Project on Twitter.
Written by BOTL social media/activism director Katie Klabusich
Produced by:
Jay! Tomlinson
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show for details visit the membership tab at Best of the Left.com. |
| 0:08.0 | Now, welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with Cups today from all in with Chris Hayes, the Tom Hartman program, |
| 0:13.0 | Counter-Spend, the Majority Report, The Rachel Maddo Show, Climate Activist Mike Tidwell, |
| 0:17.0 | Comedian Lee Camp, The Young Turks, The David Pakman Show, and Moyers & Company. |
| 0:21.0 | And now some bad news to start with as I record, it is a little unseasonally warm today. |
| 0:26.0 | So it looks like climate change is back on. |
| 0:28.0 | Rats. |
| 0:30.0 | As a winter storm bears down on much of the country this evening, we begin with some very good news from the coldest place on Earth. |
| 0:38.0 | The first of the helicopters to take us home! Back day we won! |
| 0:44.0 | This incredible rescue today of 52 scientists, journalists, and tourists, all part of a month-long research trip to study changes in Antarctica's environment over the last 100 years, |
| 0:54.0 | including what role global warming has played over that time period. |
| 0:58.0 | Because of a blizzard, their ship has been stuck in what is basically a sea of ice since Christmas Eve. |
| 1:04.0 | Now, for anyone with any sense, you think fantastic. I'm so glad they were rescued. |
| 1:09.0 | But for the American right-wing, you instead think it's a great opportunity to point and laugh about the hoax called global warming. |
| 1:17.0 | Because, you know, ice. |
| 1:19.0 | The ship sent to the Antarctic to study climate change has been stranded in the ice for 10 days. |
| 1:25.0 | The rescue has finally got through using a whopping great big helicopter that was landing on the supposedly very thin ice. |
| 1:32.0 | They're all out, okay? So it looks to me like we're looking at global cooling. |
| 1:36.0 | The prospect of air quotes global warming scientists, defeated by too much ice, was just too rich with mockable goodness for the right's leaning intellectual lights. |
| 1:47.0 | Donald Trump tweeted, this very expense of global warming bulls**t has got to stop. |
| 1:53.0 | Our planet is freezing, record low temps, and our global warming scientists are stuck in ice. |
| 1:59.0 | The right-wing had a field day, pointing and laughing at the global warming believers, who, just to be clear, are only a group of scientists risking their lives for no monetary gain and little glory in order to help save the planet. |
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