Ryan Lehrer on WNYC and now we turn to our climate story of the week which we do every Tuesday on the show

We've talked a lot on this program about New York State's recent Landmark Climate, New York State's Climate Act requires New York

to reduce economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions 40% by 2030 and no less than 85% by 2050, that's compared to 1990 levels,

proponents of the law have touted it as among the most ambitious climate laws in the nation.

A new media campaign is aiming to shed light on the law and more importantly people who are aiming to thwart it from progressing.

This campaign is called Shut the Fossils Up, and yes that acronym is intentional.

S-T-F-U and its organizers are using humor to call out actions that could derail the climate law.

Joining us now are two members of this media campaign,

two of the organizers.

They are Mark Weiss, co-founder and Steering

committee member of New York Renews, that's a statewide multi-sector coalition of almost 400 groups working to transition New York State to a fossil-free economy, and Raul Gier Matsion, former fossil free economy and Roark Yomatsyon former executive director of

Push Buffalo which is an organization that provides low-cost sustainable housing

in the Buffalo area and currently Senior Policy Fellow

Adjust Solutions Collective which identifies and promotes just solutions to

climate change from a Bi-poc perspective.

So Mark, welcome back.

Rawa, welcome to WNYC.

Thanks, Brian.

Great to be here.

Thank you for having us.

And let me start with a clip. This video on YouTube is called

booby and in it a concern southern sounding mom gets recorded leaving a

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