The "Angry Mob" Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2018
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, and John Dickerson discuss the dire new climate report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the aftermath of the Kavanaugh confirmation, and Taylor Swift’s new engagement with politics.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for October 11th, 2018, the Angry Mob Edition. |
| 0:13.2 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. I am in a closet in Brooklyn. Emily Bazelon at the New York Times |
| 0:20.1 | magazine and John Dickerson of CBS this morning. |
| 0:23.5 | You are not in a closet. I don't think. Where are you guys? |
| 0:26.7 | We're in a recording studio, and we miss being with you. |
| 0:33.1 | I miss being with you. On this week's show, a terrifying climate change report casts a shadow |
| 0:41.0 | on just about everything and puts everything in dismal perspective. Then, Brett Kavanaugh is |
| 0:48.7 | 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 |
| 1:13.9 | Skirbel Center on December 12th. It is going to be a glorious night of confrontation with |
| 1:22.2 | difficult ideas and difficult questions. And it's always a really, really fun evening. And we're expecting to have a great |
| 1:29.7 | guest too. So you should get your tickets now. There are just a few tickets left. So please go get |
| 1:34.7 | them at slate.com slash live to join us at the conundrum show on December 12th in Manhattan. |
| 1:40.9 | 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. |
| 1:54.1 | The planet has warmed 1.8 degrees already from pre-industrial levels. |
| 1:59.9 | And without massive change in policy, the planet |
| 2:02.5 | will warm 2.7 degrees in a couple of decades from now, possibly a lot more than that in the years |
| 2:08.6 | to come after that. The IPCC concludes that this will be enormously painful, not just for our |
| 2:15.8 | children and our grandchildren, but for us, because by 2040, |
| 2:20.1 | all coral reefs will be dead, there will be coastal inundation, much worse storms and wildfires, |
| 2:26.5 | droughts flooding, spread of diseases, tropical diseases to the north, mass migration and |
| 2:34.0 | enormous refugee flows from the tropics, |
| 2:36.1 | and there will be places, many, many places on Earth where it will be extremely difficult |
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