#544 Well, that’s settled then (Climate Change)
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Act 1: Bobby Kennedy discusses the Public Trust Doctrine – Ring of Fire
Song 1: Clocks – A Rush of Blood to the Head
Act 2: Dim bulbs in Congress – Jim Hightower Air Date: 8-12-11
Song 2: Don’t Turn Off the Lights – Escape
Act 3: Maggie Fox – The Reality of Climate Change Thom Hartmann Air Date 09-13-11
Song 3: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Act 4: That Custom Tailored Obama Scandal You Ordered Is Finally Here – Daily Show Air Date: 9-15-11
Song 4: Sunshine Goodtime – Pretty Baby
Act 5: Record Breaking Temps, James Inhoff thinks it’s a Conspiracy – Green News Report Air Date: 8-23-11
Song 5: Find the River – Automatic for the People
Act 6: Koch Bros study confirm climate change – Majority Report Air Date: 10-24-11
Song 6: You Spin Me Right Round (Like A Record) [2009 Version] – You Spin Me Right Round (Like A Record) – EP
Act 7: New Anger-Powered Cars May Revolutionize The Way We Drive – The Onion
Song 7: Driving Sideways – Magnolia (Music from the Motion Picture)
Act 8: Dr. Doug Inkley – New Gulf spill report… Not the end of the story – Thom Hartman Air Date: 9-19-11
Song 8: Secrets – Waking Up (Deluxe Version)
Act 9: Supporting the EPA and the Koch Bros accidentally fund accurate climate research – Green News Report Air Date: 10-25-11
Song 9: Welcome to the Black Parade – The Black Parade
Act 10: CO2 – They call it pollution, we call it life – Al Franken
Voicemails:
Thoughts on Jim Hightower’s airport security comments – Michael From Benicia, CA
Links from the email I read:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/imaging/xray-body-scanners-arriving-at-airports
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/11/17/whats-the-real-radiation-risk-of-the-tsas-full-body-x-ray-scans/Emailer wrote: “read comment 19, i trust the phd”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_radiation
Debunking of voicemailer who decried Jim Hightower – Mara from Pittsburgh
Follow up on Jim Hightower scanner comments – Michael From Benicia, CA
Responding to Michael From Benicia on airport scanners – Mara from Pittsburgh
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes – Classics
Final comments wondering if we’ll hear back from Michael again
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Weathering Fights – Daily Show
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#531 Join a Moving Planet Event on Sept 24 at Moving-Planet.org (Climate)
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Act 1: Obama continues Bush terrible standard of air quality – Ring of Fire
Song 1: Sweet Disposition – Conditions
Act 2: Coverage of Obama’s EPA announcement on ground-level smog – Counterspin
Song 2: Turn Up the Sun – Don’t Believe the Truth
Act 3: Joe Romm says Obama’s hold on smog reform worse than Bush – Countdown
Song 3: Total eclipse of the heart – Nikki French
Act 4: Obama Screws Environment With Smog – Young Turks Air Date: 9-06-11
Song 4: Show Me What I’m Looking For – Coming to Terms
Act 5: Secret Koch Bros tapes and Perry continues to deny climate change – Green News Report Air Date: 9-8-11
Song 5: Soy – ¡Volare! – The Very Best of the Gipsy Kings
Act 6: Interview with Daniel Yergin on renewable energy – Colbert Report Air Date: 9-21-11
Song 6: Put Your Records On (Acoustic) – Put Your Records On – Single
Act 7: Climate change is dull – Harry Mason
Song 7: World On Fire – Closer – The Best of Sarah McLachlan (Deluxe Version)
Act 8: Sen. Bernie Sanders against building Tar Sands oil Pipeline – Green News Report Air Date: 8-18-11
Song 8: There’s Something Wrong – Out of It
Act 9: Protesting Obama to Stop Keystone Corrosive Oil Pipeline in Alberta’s tar sands – Majority Report Air Date: 8-22-11
Song 9: Excuse Me Mr. – Tragic Kingdom
Act 10: 250 arrested at Keystone XL protest – Green News Report Air Date: 8-25-11
Song 10: The Lucky One – New Favorite
Act 11: For Protesters, Keystone Pipeline Is Line In Tar Sand – NPR Air Date: 9-2-11
Song 11: Free to decide – The Cranberries
Act 12: Obama about to approve Keystone XL pipeline – Green News Report Air Date: 9-11-11
Song 12: Moving Planet – September 24th, 2011: A Day to Move Beyond Fossil Fuels – 350.org
Act 13: Discussing the Keystone XL pipeline after 1000+ protester arrests – Ring of Fire
Final comments on Sept 24 Moving Planet day of action
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Molly Haigh on the Sept 24, 2011 Moving Planet Event – The Green Scene
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#490 A 1-year oil spill retrospective (Oil Spill)
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Act 1: Coffee safety at BP – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 1: The Ocean – The Sun and the Moon
Act 2: Oil spill and GOP fundraising – Rachel Maddow
Song 2: The Funeral – Everything All the Time
Act 3: The oil is missing – Colbert Report
Song 3: If I Had a Hammer – Roots, Rock & Revolution
Act 4: The strife aquatic – Daily Show
Song 4: Someone Keeps Moving My Chair – Flood
Act 5: Gov. covers up BP oil spill worst case scenario – Young Turks
Song 5: Dreaming of You – The Coral
Act 6: RFK Jr. discusses similarities between Exxon and BP oil spills – Ring of Fire
Song 6: The Killing Moon – Ocean Rain
Act 7: All’s well that ends well – Michael Blum – Colbert Report
Song 7: Beautiful Life – Ace of Base: Greatest Hits
Act 8: Repeal of drilling moratorium – Countdown
Song 8: Here It Goes Again – Oh No
Act 9: The upshot for BP – Le Show
Song 9: Shake It – Metro Station
Act 10: The Gulf of Mexico one year later – Thom Hartmann
Song 10: The Dead Heart – Diesel and Dust (2007 Remastered)
Act 11: BP oil spill anniversary – Obama’s failure – Young Turks
Voicemails:
Call for amazement – Chris the carpenter from Cap Cod, Mass
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes – Classics
Final comments introducing Louis C.K. clip
Post-show clip:
Everything is amazing and nobody’s happy – Louis C.K. on Conan O’Brien
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The Killing Fields – Vietnamese Fisherman – Daily Show
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#450 When the cluelesss are in control (Climate Change)
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Act 1: Noise pollution – Colbert Report
Song 1: Peace and quiet – The Rifles
Act 2: Obama’s green investment – Ring of Fire
Song 2: Grown Ups – Suspened Animation
Act 3: EPA revokes a permit for MTR coal mine – Jim Hightower
Song 3: Rivers and Roads – The Head and the Heart
Act 4: Labor Dept. asks court to close coal mine – NPR
Song 4: The fiddler’s ballad – Jen Osha w/Wolf Creek Session
Act 5: Obama weakness spreads to one bright spot in EPA – Young Turks
Song 5: Not Ready to Make Nice – Taking the Long Way
Act 6: 2010 the hottest year on record – Green News Report from BradBlog.com
Song 6: Hot Hot Hot!!! – Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
Act 7: Republicans deny climate change – The New Yorker
Song 7: Idiots have taken over – NOFX
Act 8: The commons of the climate – Thom Hartmann
Song 8: These Days – Chelsea Girl
Act 9: The dilemma of peak oil – Radio Ecoshock
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Save the Planet or Die Trying – Thom Hartmann
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