(2016/11/04) What is at stake (Climate Change and the Supreme Court)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 4 November 2016
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Summary
Edition #1055
Today we look at the two biggest issues with the most limited timelines and far-reaching consequences of our era and how they are both at stake in this election
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Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: VILE: Trump Picks Climate Denier to Lead Environmental Transition - @DavidPakmanShow - Air Date: 09-28-16
Ch. 3: Song 1: Despierta - Filthy Friends
Ch. 4: Act 2: What Do The Next Supreme Court Picks Really Mean For America? - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date 07-28-16
Ch. 5: Song 2: No Guns No Guns - Mirah
Ch. 6: Act 3: As Earth Reaches Frightening CO2 Milestone, Bill McKibben Calls for War on Climate Change - @DemocracyNow - Air Date: 09-30-16
Ch. 7: Song 3: If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next - Manic Street Preachers
Ch. 8: Act 4: Trump: I'll Fill the Supreme Court With Antonin Scalias - Majority Report (@MajorityFM) - Air Date: 09-14-16
Ch. 9: Song 4: Perry Mason - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Ch. 10: Act 5: Shameful Admission: Trump Doesn't Believe Climate Change is Man Made - @DavidPakmanShow - Air Date: 09-29-16
Ch. 11: Song 5: Sic of Elephants (Live) - Andrew Bird [featuring Jim James]
Ch. 12: Act 6: 350 Action's May Boeve on Young Voters & Climate Movement - @DemocracyNow - Air Date: 10-25-16
Ch. 13: Song 6: Pressure - Billy Joel
Ch. 14: Act 7: Republicans Planning To Block Supreme Court Justices FOREVER - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 10-28-16
Ch. 15: Song 7: Makin' It Great Again! - Andrew St. James
Ch. 16: Act 8: The World Is Hotter Than Hell and No One Is Talking About Climate Change - Majority Report (@MajorityFM) - Air Date: 10-01-16
Voicemails
Ch. 17: Some adults think the devil is trying to influence our election - Brad from Irving, TX
Ch. 18: The impacts on restricted access to education - Sally from San Francisco
Ch. 19: Limbaugh is more thoughtful than liberals let on - Mike from Richmond, VA
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 20: Final comments with some questions for our new reasonable conservative caller
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
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| 0:00.0 | The Supreme Court is important for the fracking regulations. |
| 0:06.3 | It's absolutely critical important for the regulation of carbon and for the adoption |
| 0:11.2 | of the Paris Accords. |
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| 0:22.8 | tab at bestofaloft.com. |
| 0:24.9 | Now welcome to the award-winning Best of a Left Podcast with Cups Today from the David |
| 0:28.6 | Fakman Show, the Tom Hartman program, Democracy Now, the Majority Report and the Young Terks. |
| 0:37.2 | Donald Trump has selected one of the best-known climate change deniers to lead his environmental |
| 0:43.7 | protection agency transition team. |
| 0:46.9 | According to two sources close to the Trump campaign, this guy's name is Myron Eble. |
| 0:52.7 | He is director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the very conservative competitive |
| 0:58.0 | enterprise institute. |
| 0:59.7 | He is going to be managing Trump's transition plan for the EPA. |
| 1:04.8 | He is a well-known and very polarizing figure within both the energy world and the environment |
| 1:11.6 | world. |
| 1:12.6 | He's known for writing about alarmism as he calls what climate change science is. |
| 1:19.0 | He frequently appears in media. |
| 1:21.1 | He frequently appears in front of Congress. |
| 1:23.9 | He's chairman of the cooler heads coalition. |
| 1:26.8 | Imagine that. |
| 1:28.2 | Quite a name. |
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