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The Al Franken Podcast

Climatologist Michael Mann on How to Talk to Climate Deniers

The Al Franken Podcast

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4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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The Climate Has Always Changed – Just Not This Fast!!!

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0:33.0

Hey everybody, we got a great one today, you know, for a change. Nobel Prize winning climatologist

0:40.4

Michael Mann joins us for the third time. He's that good. And this is one you'll want to listen to

0:47.7

especially if you have a friend or relative who says, Hey, the climate always changes. We've had

0:54.2

ice ages, a meteor wiped out the dinosaurs. There were palm trees at the south pole. So these

1:03.2

record hot summers we've been having, that's not a big deal. Well, this episode is for you and for

1:11.5

them because Michael has a new book, our fragile moment, which explains why this is a unique moment

1:18.9

in the history of the planet, at least in terms of the human being period. And we've got some

1:25.4

important decisions to make. And the good news is we know what to do. Well, we've had an eventful

1:33.4

week. The shutdown we discussed last week with Norm Ornstein was averted for a while anyway in a

1:41.0

pretty chaotic and ugly way, but what's new? Oh, Kevin McCarthy isn't the speaker of the house

1:49.6

anymore. I kind of hope the Democrats would make a secret deal with them and give them enough

1:55.3

votes to keep them in there under the condition that he would just do whatever they told him to do.

2:02.3

I bet he would have gone for that. I'm not sure how long it would have remained a secret,

2:07.6

but it seems like the houses in chaos anyway. Well, I hope this gives voters some idea of just how

2:16.2

fucked up the House Republicans are and both them out next fall. But you know, a lot of stuff's

2:22.6

going to happen between now and then. Jim Jordan as a speaker. Oh, I hope not. Please.

2:35.4

In the meantime, there's Trump. A judge decided he's kind of a crook.

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