Global warming policy on the chopping block
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2016
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
During Donald Trump's long, sometimes confusing presidential campaign, one consistent theme was defiance of the scientific consensus on climate change. What's at stake for clean energy and other strategies to slow global warming?
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| 0:03.4 | You can lose a job, a relationship, or thousands of dollars on fees, fines, and bail. |
| 0:08.2 | Have I ever gone to jail? |
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| 0:10.5 | If he doesn't show up to court, we've got to pay the $50,000. |
| 0:13.5 | No ring exchange, no kiss the bride. |
| 0:16.1 | There's no glamour in a jailhouse wedding. |
| 0:19.2 | Off the block, all six episodes tracing the path from city block to jail block and back |
| 0:24.1 | are now available on KCRW's iTunes page. |
| 0:30.4 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International. This is To the Point. |
| 0:38.7 | Donald Trump and the fate of the planet. |
| 0:44.3 | Hello again, I'm Aronaldian. |
| 0:45.9 | This is To the Point. |
| 0:47.1 | Climate scientists say the Paris Agreement on Greenhouse Emissions |
| 0:49.9 | may offer the last best chance to slow global warming. |
| 0:53.6 | Some 200 countries are gathered in Morocco |
| 0:55.4 | to nail down the accords led by the U.S. and China. But during his campaign, America's president |
| 1:01.0 | elect called global warming a hoax invented by China. His transition team features a climate change |
| 1:06.6 | denier. If Trump pulls out, do the Paris Accords have a future? What about his promises to end |
| 1:12.5 | the Obama Clean Power Plan, dismantle the EPA, and bring back coal? On our talking point later, |
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