ITT Climate 2020 Crossover: Trump Flops With Fossil Fuels
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2019
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In this crossover episode, ITT airs the second episode of the new podcast, Climate 2020, a podcast that zeroes in on climate change as a top issue of the 2020 presidential election.  Impeachment has thrown a monkey wrench into the news cycle -- and the scandal has a climate change link. Hosts of Climate 2020, journalist David Gelber and executive director of Climate Nexus, Jeff Nesbit talk with Ben Lefebvre, energy reporter at Politico, and Leah Stokes, climate and energy politics researcher and professor of political science at University of California Santa Barbara, about the disconnect between voters and congress on climate change.  Subscribe to Climate 2020, wherever you get your podcasts. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Â
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| 0:26.0 | Yo, what's up in the thick listeners, it's Maria here with my co-host Julio. |
| 0:31.0 | What's up everybody? |
| 0:32.0 | What's up? So tonight we are actually recording a live show in |
| 0:36.8 | Cambridge. If you want information it's on all of our social so you can maybe show up |
| 0:42.0 | but we wanted to drop something else so that you |
| 0:45.2 | guys could listen to and this is a podcast called Climate 2020 and it deals with |
| 0:49.7 | climate change as the top issue of the 2020 presidential campaign. |
| 0:55.0 | Right, and in this podcast you can listen as researchers, activists and journalists, for example, |
| 1:02.0 | MS-MBCs, Chris Hayes, how they all explain |
| 1:04.8 | where your favorite candidates stand on climate and what proposals make the most sense. |
| 1:10.3 | Here are thought-provoking conversations about how we can solve our world's greatest crisis. |
| 1:15.0 | So today we're going to share Climate 2020's second episode. It's called Trump flops with fossil fuels. |
| 1:22.0 | Right, because all this impeachment talk... Trump flops with fossil fuels. |
| 1:22.7 | Right, because all this impeachment talk |
| 1:25.1 | has thrown a monkey wrench into the news cycle, |
| 1:27.8 | as we know, but guess what? |
| 1:30.0 | The scandal also has a climate change link. |
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