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Now welcome to the award-winning best of all F-podcasts with clips today from It's

OK to be smart, the young Turks, counterspin, TED Talks on the media and the Green News

Reports.

Let's not beat around the rapidly melting ice for a year.

Climate change is happening and we are causing it.

The evidence is overwhelming.

Scientists usually reserve this level of agreement for claims like, Earth is a planet or air

is real.

Yet here we are.

The climate change ship has now left the dock.

Lots of people on shore are still debating whether boats can actually float.

But maybe you're a person who trusts and accept what climate scientists are telling

us.

It's just sometimes it's hard to explain why.

I mean, we've all been there.

I mean, I care about the environment.

I figure with polar bears and everything, we might as well try electric cars.

But we have to lose.

And then they go caps lock serious saying they have proof that climate change is a hoax

perpetuated by scientists paid off by the polar bear lobby as part of a plant that's

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