Reality Check: Climate change, energy and the environment
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2016
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
It's Day Two of our Reality Check on the campaigns of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Their positions on climate change are as different as night and day. We hear what that might mean for energy policy, the environment and national security — depending on who makes it to the Oval Office.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Josh Barrow. |
| 0:02.0 | On Thursday, October 20th, KCRW is coming out of our basement studios for a civilized, yet provocative, left, right, and center live. |
| 0:09.0 | Join us at the beautiful Ace Hotel Theater in downtown Los Angeles for a night of amusing and insightful commentary on this unique election season. |
| 0:17.0 | I'll be joined by Kelly Goff, Jean Sperling, and Mona Charon as we dissect Trump |
| 0:20.9 | versus Clinton, Democrat versus Republican, and fact versus fiction. Buy your tickets today at |
| 0:26.3 | KCRW.com slash LRC Live. |
| 0:31.2 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point. |
| 0:39.4 | Reality Check on climate change. |
| 0:45.0 | Hello again, I'm Aronalmi, and this is To the Point. |
| 0:47.9 | Hillary Clinton describes global warming as an urgent threat. |
| 0:51.0 | Donald Trump once called it a hoax created by the Chinese. |
| 0:55.7 | He's tried to back off a bit, |
| 1:00.6 | but their differences are still profound with dramatic consequences for energy policy and the environment. Clinton says she'll increase reductions in fossil fuel and build on the Obama legacy, |
| 1:06.3 | which Trump promises to obliterate while he restores the coal industry. |
| 1:13.3 | We'll hear the implications for the Paris Climate Accords, |
| 1:17.6 | just approved by the European Union and for national security. |
| 1:20.3 | That's our main topic on our talking point later. |
| 1:25.4 | A divided U.S. Supreme Court is avoiding cases that might produce split decisions. Will, this year's session still matter. |
| 1:28.2 | First, here's the news. |
| 1:32.2 | Check out KCRW's All News Channel, News 24. |
| 1:36.9 | Programming from KCRW, NPR, BBC, and more 24 hours a day. |
| 1:42.6 | Go to KCRW.com slash News 24 24 or listen on KCRW's app. |
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