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

The booming business of global warming.

Hello again, I'm Marvin Aulney, and this is To the Poet from Public Radio International.

The daily look at the issues Americans care about most.

Global warming

deniers may have to take note. Climate change is already big business for entrepreneurs and investors

all over the world. Shell oil has been strategizing about it for decades. Wall Street's in on the

action. Coca-Cola and Nike recognize it's shaping their bottom lines.

We'll hear how money's being made from the Arctic to Africa and the tropics and how the U.S. government will have to play catch-up.

What are the potential costs of looking the other way

and the differing consequences for the haves and have-nots?

Today's talking point, the fading cloud of California in Congress.

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Program Fund. Hello again, we're on Allie, back with To The Poet. Global warming is not just a fact

of life. It's already a source of profit with much more to come

for those betting that nothing is going to be done. We'll hear how melting ice, drought,

and massive rainfall are creating a business boom with dangerous implications for social and

economic inequality. Today's talking point, after 40 years in Congress, California Democrat Henry Waxman

says he won't run again, joining Golden State colleagues in both parties with many decades

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