Tag: global warming
State Governments Together in Climate Action – featuring David Cash
- by Garret Jacobs
- 3 months ago
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[MUSIC PLAYING] RAJESH KASTURIRANGAN: From middle school to the state house to UMass Boston. CURT NEWTON: The dean’s office. RAJESH KASTURIRANGAN: The dean’s office. That’s what we’re going to see today with David Cash. This is the first of a
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What Happened to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal
- by Garret Jacobs
- 4 months ago
- 100 comments
According to NASA, 2018 was the fourth hottest year on record. The top three? 2015, 2016 and 2017. With rising temperatures comes rising numbers of costly natural disasters. Last year alone, there were 14 disasters that cost one billion dollars
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Former Australian Fire Commissioner Slams Politicians over Climate Change Inaction
- by Garret Jacobs
- 4 months ago
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decorated Australian firefighter Greg Mullins says climate change is contributing to bush fires so horrendous that homes and lives cannot be protected and the federal government will not acknowledge the link because it has failed on emissions reduction policy the
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17 Year Old Activist Sues United States Government Over Climate Change
- by Garret Jacobs
- 4 months ago
- 20 comments
sets s uh… as you may or may not know ladies and gentlemen the trailing twelve months have been the warmest twelve months uh… in that standard seventeen years in the united states and i say only in the past
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EXPOSED: The Secret Elite Group Worth £50 Billion Funding the Tory Party | Peter Geoghegan
- by Garret Jacobs
- 4 months ago
- 100 comments
Almost all the Conservative Party’s money comes from private donors and lots of it comes from the super wealthy Here at openDemocracy we revealed recently that the Conservative Party gets over £130 million from this tiny group of donors called
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What U.S. withdrawal from Paris climate deal means for a warming planet
- by Garret Jacobs
- 5 months ago
- 0 comments
WILLIAM BRANGHAM: The timing is lost on no one. The president notified the rest of the world again yesterday that, one year from now, the day after the 2020 elections, the U.S. will formally withdraw from the Paris climate agreement.
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Bill McKibben: Corporate America’s refusal to limit pollution will “break the climate system”
- by Garret Jacobs
- 5 months ago
- 43 comments
Bill, you’ve said that the decision to withdraw is the greatest success of the “denial machine” that the fossil fuel industry launched 30 years ago. Could you elaborate on that? Sure, sure. We now know, from great investigative reporting, that
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Climate Change: What Do Scientists Say?
- by Garret Jacobs
- 5 months ago
- 100 comments
I’m an atmospheric physicist. I’ve published more than 200 scientific papers. For 30 years I taught at MIT, during which time the climate has changed remarkably little. But the cry of “global warming” has grown ever more shrill. In fact,
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‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ has a challenge for 2020 Democrats
- by Garret Jacobs
- 5 months ago
- 100 comments
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The Daily Show – Burn Noticed
- by Garret Jacobs
- 6 months ago
- 100 comments
>>Jon: WELCOME TO “THE DAILY SHOW”! MY NAME IS JON STEWART! GOOD SHOW! MY GUEST TONIGHT, AUTHOR JENNY NORDBERG, SHE IS THE AUTHOR OF A BOOK CALLED “THE UNDERGROUND GIRLS OF KABUL.” SHE WILL BE JOINING US A LITTLE BIT
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