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To the Point

Are record heat waves a point of no return for climate change?

To the Point

KCRW

News

4.4583 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2016

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This year, for the first time, climate change will likely be an important issue in the Presidential Campaign. Hillary Clinton says it's time for action; Donald Trump says it's a hoax.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Podcast.

0:03.1

Listen to the organist, the culturally omnivorous, intellectually ravenous podcast from the editors of the Believer magazine.

0:10.0

Part of poetry is learning how to speak.

0:13.5

Chili Billy.

0:15.7

I am also a horse.

0:17.4

I really value my life, even though I know it's debatable whether I'm even really alive.

0:22.5

The right reading for this is the one I'm giving it.

0:25.4

Find the organism on KCRW.com or wherever you download podcasts.

0:31.3

From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International. This is To the Point.

0:39.8

Climate change, politics, and reality.

0:46.2

Hello again. I'm Orin-Aulni, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

0:50.5

Climate change is a big part of Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic platform.

0:55.3

Donald Trump and the GOP call it a hoax with no basis in science.

0:59.7

Meantime, temperatures in Kuwait are rising to historic highs, and melting ice in the Arctic

1:05.1

is changing the lives of nomadic native Alaskans.

1:08.6

Extreme weather apparently is becoming the norm,

1:11.4

and climate scientists are working faster

1:13.4

to connect the dots between heat waves and global warming.

1:17.3

We'll update some facts on the ground

1:19.1

and hear how climate change is playing as an issue

1:21.6

in the presidential campaign.

1:23.8

Today's talking point,

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