Every country on Earth yesterday agreed to transition away from fossil fuels by 2050.

So it was good news from the COP28 Climate Summit, right?

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

Those words stated at the world's largest climate conference were unprecedented, but

what exactly did they mean? I sort of liken it to you know you're diagnosed with

diabetes and you tell your doctor no worries doctor I will transition away from

eating donuts that's not the way it works. We have to bring carbon emissions down dramatically.

50 percent.

Also this week, after failing to gain any seats in recent midterms, the press all but sounded the death knell for the book banning group

Moms for Liberty.

But Moms for Liberty is really part of a broader ecosystem that's aimed at sewing distrust in our public schools.

It's all coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

This week, the United Nations largest annual conference on climate change, called COP28, came to a close. The gathering at times boasting nearly 70,000

attendees took place in Dubai with both location and leadership raising quite a few eyebrows.

The president of COP28, President Sultan Al-Jabir,

is also the head of the UAE's state oil company.

Two roles, some critics have said, are incompatible.

It was a controversial decision to appoint the CEO of a national oil company.

Normally a government official such as a minister of environment or some minister of foreign affairs is placed in this role.

In itself, Sultan Algabar's appointment prompted plenty of concern, not to mention a BBC

investigation of leaked documents suggesting that

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