Words That Work: Red States and Climate Change
Let's Find Common Ground
USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future
5 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
CPF Co-Director Mike Murphy is joined by Congressman Garret Graves, climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe, journalist Bina Venkataraman, and USC professor Wandi Bruine de Bruin to discuss how to communicate the urgency of environmental legislation and encourage bipartisan support for climate change solutions.
- Mike Murphy - Co-Director, USC Center for the Political Future; NBC Political Analyst
- Garret Graves - U.S. Representative (R-LA)
- Katharine Hayhoe - Climate scientist; Founder and CEO of Atmos Research
- Bina Venkataraman - Journalist, author, science policy expert
- Wandi Bruine de Bruin - USC Provost Professor of Public Policy, Psychology, and Behavioral Science
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the bully pulpit from the University of Southern California Center for the Political Future. |
| 0:11.7 | Our podcast brings together America's top politicians, journalists, academics, and strategists from across the political spectrum for discussions on hot button issues where we |
| 0:21.5 | respect each other and respect the truth. We hope you enjoy these conversations. |
| 0:28.9 | Hello and welcome here to the Center for the Political Futures discussion today, which |
| 0:34.4 | we're calling, we got a little clever, words that work, red states and |
| 0:38.5 | climate change. And joining us, I'm going to do a few introductions. Then we're going to discuss |
| 0:42.8 | a few relevant topics. I'm Mike Murphy, co-director of the Center for the Political Future here |
| 0:47.8 | at USC. And I am delighted and intimidated by the panel. These are the experts the experts call. So we're really |
| 0:55.1 | lucky to have a great panel here. Now I'm going to start with somebody I'm going to call the |
| 0:58.8 | Mysterian here because he hasn't quite joined, but Congressman Garrett Graves of Louisiana's 6th |
| 1:04.0 | district. Oh, here he is. Hi, Garrett. Perfect timing, man. He's a Republican member of Congress. |
| 1:09.6 | He's a ranking member for the new select committee on the |
| 1:12.1 | climate crisis, and he serves on the House Natural Resources Committee. And even more impressive |
| 1:16.8 | than that, before being elected to Congress, I believe in 2016, am I right about that, Congressman? |
| 1:22.9 | Maybe 14. Recently, few terms. He was a key staff member on many of the committees that really make the policy on both the Republican side. |
| 1:32.8 | I think he advised some Dems too over on the Senate. So somebody really knows how this thing works. |
| 1:37.8 | We also have Catherine Hayho, who is another accomplished, incredible atmospheric scientist, an expert on climate change, |
| 1:46.5 | why it matters to us here and now, quite famous as a hugely effective communicator on climate |
| 1:51.7 | change. She is the political science endowed professor in public policy and public law at Texas |
| 1:57.0 | Tech and co-directs their climate center. You also might recognize her because she hosts the PBS Digital Series Global Weirding. |
| 2:04.7 | And I should be on that. |
| 2:06.0 | And she has been named one of Time Magazine's 100, most influential people and a United Nations champion of the environment. |
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