Sell Me Your Climate Bombs

Planet Money

NPR

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4.6 • 29.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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There are tanks all over the U.S. that are like little climate change time bombs, ticking away. Today on the show, getting to them before they go off. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

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0:00.0	This is Planet Money from NPR.
0:07.2	When we think about the things that are causing global warming, that are heating up the planet,
0:10.8	right?
0:11.8	We usually think about things like carbon dioxide coming out of factory smoke stacks or
0:16.3	car exhaust.
0:17.3	But there's this other greenhouse gas out there that's even more dangerous.
0:20.8	It's lurking in garages and sheds all over the country.
0:23.7	It's a kind of invisible threat that most people don't even think about.
0:28.1	Except these guys.
0:29.1	So, I'm Tim Brown and I'm driving in Illinois with my partner Gabe Placke.
0:35.6	Tim and Gabe are driving an SUV through downstate Illinois.
0:39.1	Flat straight roads, nothing but corn and soybeans as far as you can see.
0:42.9	And they're on a mission.
0:43.9	Hold on, I'm just going to give Gabe the edges.
0:46.2	It's 903 noise.
0:47.2	They're on a mission to track down some of this invisible threat.
0:51.0	All right.
0:52.0	We're going to go collect and destroy greenhouse gases.
0:54.2	It's very exciting.
0:55.2	And they're letting us tag along by video.
0:58.3	Look at this.
0:59.3	We're on a field trip together.
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