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Le Show

Le Show For The Week Of June 2, 2024

Le Show

Harry Shearer

Politics, News, Society & Culture, Sports, Music, Tech News

4.6972 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s edition of Le Show, host Harry Shearer brings us regular features like News of the Warm, Let Us Try, News of Crypto-Winter, News of Musk Love, News of Microplastics, What the Frack?!, and The Apologies of the Week. We’ll also hear about a reality show contestant suing his employer, Donald Trump, and how a rain storm has impacted New Orleans.

Transcript

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Here it is.

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From deep inside your audio device of choice.

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And from a sundry New Orleans, ladies gentleman, you may be hearing it behind me. I sure am. But things are getting

0:16.7

worse everywhere. Not only is global warming happening, the pace of carbon dioxide

0:22.4

build up in the atmosphere is quickening.

0:26.0

It's the happening and it's the quickening.

0:29.0

Monthly average concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere measured at Hawaii's Mona Loe Observatory just set a new record

0:37.0

for the largest 12-month gain in carbon dioxide concentration ever observed.

0:45.0

I blame the observers.

0:46.0

This March the CO2 level was 4.7 parts per million higher

0:51.0

than that recorded a year ago. That reveals the

0:55.8

increasing pace of CO2 addiction, addition to the, and the addiction to the

1:01.2

atmosphere by human activities.

1:04.7

Previous year over year gain of any monthly average.

1:08.9

That was a jump of 4.1 parts per million from June 2015 to June 2016 that was likely due to strong

1:18.3

El Nino conditions influencing global weather patterns.

1:23.4

Quote, we sadly continue to break records in the CO2 rise rate, says Ralph Keeling,

1:31.2

director of the CO2 program,

1:33.2

a UC San Diego, son of Charles Keeling.

1:38.1

Yes, you know, he was the discoverer

1:39.8

of the Keeling curve accurately measuring atmospheric CO2.

1:43.0

Quote, the ultimate reason is continued global growth and the consumption of

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