(2014/11/11) Rising tide of climate change deniers and sea levels (Climate) - a podcast by BestOfTheLeft.com
from 2014-11-12T00:00
Edition #875
Today we take a look at some of the potential environmental fallout of the recent US elections
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Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 3: Song 1: Dreamtime - Faith In the Future
Ch. 4: Act 2: US Could Quadruple Renewable Electricity by 2030 for 18 CENTS PER MONTH - @davidpakmanshow - Air Date: 10-26-14
Ch. 5: Song 2: Future Is Now - Dune
Ch. 6: Act 3: Politico & BP Blatantly Conspire To Hide BP's Devastating Oil Spill - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 10-23-14
Ch. 7: Song 3: Journalist - The System
Ch. 8: Act 4: First the Arctic, now Greenland's Ice is Melting... - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date: 10-07-14
Ch. 9: Song 4: Strong Animals - Beasts of the Southern Wild (Music from the Motion Picture)
Ch. 10: Act 5: Climate Change — Faith and Fact - @BillMoyersHQ And Company - Air Date 9-12-14
Ch. 11: Song 5: Genesis - Futureperfect
Ch. 12: Act 6: Cable News Features Unhinged Climate Denier - @davidpakmanshow - Air Date: 11-09-14
Ch. 13: Song 6: Nothing to See Here - Can't Remember the Last Time
Ch. 14: Act 7: This is not the middle of the climate debate - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date: 10-31-14
Ch. 15: Song 7: Stuck In the Middle With You - Stuck In the Middle With You (Remastered) - EP
Ch. 16: Act 8: Will Climate Change Force Florida to Split Into Two? - @majorityfm - Air Date: 10-27-14
Ch. 17: Song 8: Sink, Florida, Sink - As the Eternal Cowboy
Ch. 18: Act 9: The climate desaster of the midterm elections - @greennewsreport - Air Date: 11-6-14
Ch. 19: Song 9: A Change Is Gonna Come - Ain't That Good News
Ch. 20: Act 10: #KeystoneXL Under Congressional #Climate Deniers - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 21: Song 10: Time for Action - Time for Action - the Very Best Of
Ch. 22: Act 11: When fracking and oil compete, consumers & the economy win - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date: 11-07-14
Voicemails
Ch. 23: Thoughts on religion episode from a non-athiest - Tim from Hyattsville, MD
Ch. 24: What Maher and Harris was saying isn't that bad - Nick from Kansas
Ch. 25: Important to recognize our own biases - Bassey from NYC
Ch. 26: Frustrated by the left's response to Sam Harris - Greg from Baldwin Park, California
Ch. 27: The pity(?) Pithy(?) stance - Mike From Nova Scotia
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 28: Final comments on the diversity of the listeners and one example of the minority
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
Activism Update: KeystoneXL Under Congressional Climate Deniers
Follow-up/New Action!
Stop the Tar Sands Pipeline! via NRDC BioGems
Tell President Obama to reject Keystone XL
Use ContactingTheCongress.org to find your possibly new representatives and let them know you oppose Keystone.
Additional activism:
Watch/host a screening for ”Above All Else”: a documentary about the battle over the KXL pipeline in East Texas. h/t Tom Philpott at Mother Jones
Follow "Above All Else” on Twitter and on Facebook
Follow Idle No More’s work protecting the land and water in Canada as well as the rights of the Indigenous population there.
Sources:
"Senate Now Has Enough Votes To Pass Keystone XL Pipeline Approval Bill” by Katie Sheppard at HuffPo Politics
"Meet the Senate’s New Climate Denial Caucus: Their views range from tepid acceptance of the science to flat-out rejection” by Tim McDonnell at Climate Desk
"OMG. They Tell Her That Her Words Are BS Right To Her Face. So Satisfying.” — an amazing short film by AJ+ on the Unist'ot'en Camp founded by members of the Wet'suwet'en Nation to resist the Tar Sands Gigaproject in Western Canada. via Upworthy
”Candidate Profile: Joni Ernst via Iowa Public Radio
Written by BOTL social media/activism director Katie Klabusich
Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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