Thom Hartmann Program - 1 Hour Edition - 12/25/18 - As evidence for the ongoing insect apocalypse piles up (but not on our windshields), Dr. Michael Mann is here with the climate science. And Thom connects back to the root problem of unfettered greed.
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.3 • 8 Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2018
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Thom looks carefully at the science and evidence that we are watching a crash of insect populations around the world. But is this part and parcel with the decline of all life on earth? What is the real cause? -------- Climatologist Dr. Michael Mann, director of the Earth System Science Center speaks with Thom about the recent scientific studies on global climate change and the stark choice between carbon alternatives... or ruin. -------- The ongoing extinctions across the planet are ultimately caused by wealth inequality, a system propped up by elite political power based on manipulating the population via race baiting. But people are starting to see through the lies. -------- Listeners phone in to discuss with Thom questions on climate change, sustainable energy efficiency and the significance of wide-scale human transitioning to a lower carbon lifestyle, including plant-based food instead of funding the extraordinary amount of land farmed with carbon fuels to produce animal feed.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, |
| 0:20.0 | believers in peace, freedom, and the American way, Tom Harbin here with you. |
| 0:25.8 | There is one thing that I wanted to share with you, and that is the possibility that all life |
| 0:30.7 | on earth could end, or the majority of life on earth could end. |
| 0:33.1 | Or the majority of life on earth could end. |
| 0:35.8 | And let me give you two data points here. |
| 0:38.5 | The first is from the journal Scientific Reports. |
| 0:40.8 | It was reported in Science daily. New research reveals the |
| 0:44.2 | extinction of plant or animal species from extreme environmental change |
| 0:47.2 | increases the risk of an extinction domino effect that could annihilate all life |
| 0:51.6 | on earth, they write. |
| 0:53.0 | Researchers from Italy and Australia simulated, |
| 0:55.0 | this was all done on a computer, |
| 0:57.0 | simulated 2,000 virtual earths, |
| 1:00.0 | linking together animal and plant species and then using sophisticated modeling |
| 1:04.7 | they subjected these virtual Earths to environmental changes. In other words they |
| 1:09.4 | turned up the heat. They did global warming by computer. |
| 1:14.0 | And what they found was, and I quote from their study, in the case of global warming in particular, |
| 1:20.5 | the combination of intolerance to heat combined with co-extinctions |
| 1:24.7 | means that five to six degrees of average warming globally is enough to wipe out most life |
| 1:29.2 | on the planet. You will recall that there's a broad scientific consensus that if we do not do |
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