Is Global Warming Back on the Global Agenda?
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2014
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Hundred of thousands of citizens hit the streets of New York for yesterday’s People’s Climate March. But who’s paying attention? President Obama put the US in the forefront with new rules on power plants. Can he invest other heads of state with a sense of urgency?
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point. |
| 0:07.9 | Is global warming back on the global agenda? |
| 0:14.5 | Hello again, I'm Arminowalmi, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International. |
| 0:18.3 | At the daily look at the issues, Americans care about most. |
| 0:20.8 | Yesterday's people's climate march crowded the streets of New York, and today the pioneer |
| 0:25.0 | Rockefeller family announced divestment in fossil fuels. |
| 0:28.6 | But major polluters, China, India, Russia, even Germany, won't even attend the climate summit |
| 0:33.6 | at the United Nations tomorrow. |
| 0:35.9 | Leaders are worried about the cost of controlling global emissions, despite reports that |
| 0:40.4 | economies can gain from going green. |
| 0:43.9 | President Obama put the U.S. in the forefront with new rules on power plants. |
| 0:48.5 | Can he invest other heads of state with a sense of urgency? |
| 0:52.4 | Today's talking point, a new terror threat you've never heard of. |
| 0:55.9 | First, here's the news. |
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| 1:26.4 | Hello again, we're on. I'll be back with To the Point. |
| 1:28.6 | Heads of state have been called to the U.N. tomorrow to discuss climate change, |
| 1:31.9 | but the meeting's already been called the summit that snoozed. |
| 1:35.4 | We'll hear who's coming, and more importantly, who's not, |
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