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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gavfest for October 11, 2018, the Angry Mob edition.

I am David Plots of Atlas Obscura. I am in a closet in Brooklyn. Emily Bazlon of the New York Times

magazine and John Dickerson of CBS this morning. You are not in a closet. I don't think where are you guys?

We're in a recording studio and we miss being with you. I miss being with you. On this week's show,

a terrifying climate change report casts a shadow on just about everything and puts everything

in dismal perspective. Then Brett Kavanaugh is the Supreme Court Justice. Democrats are angry mobs

and men are an endangered species. We will discuss the fallout from the Kavanaugh confirmation.

And then has Taylor Swift turned the election to the Democrats. Apparently she has. Plus we will

have cocktail chatter. And don't forget, dear listeners, we have our conundrum live show at

NYU's Skurbel Center on December 12th. Is it going to be a glorious night of confrontation with

difficult ideas and difficult questions? And it's always a really, really fun evening. We're

expecting to have a great guest too. So you should get your tickets now. There are just a few

tickets left. So please go get them at slate.com slash live to join us at the conundrum show

on December 12th in Manhattan. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of 91 scientists

who have spent years studying thousands and thousands of studies about the effects of human

activity on climate issued a terrifying report this week. The planet has warmed 1.8 degrees

already from pre-industrial levels. And without massive change in policy, the planet will warm 2.7

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