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twenty twelve the hottest year on record in the united states
usually the temperature differences from year to year measured in
fractions of a degree
last year though the fifty five point three degree average demolished the
previous record set in nineteen ninety-eight by a
degree fahrenheit if this doesn't sound impressive let's look at the number of
record highs versus the number of record lows over thirty four thousand record
high temperatures
set across the country and point wealth compared to only sixty six hundred
record lows according to account maintained by
meteorologist from the weather channel guy
uh... the ratio
used to be in balance as recently as the nineteen seventies for each year there
would be about the same number of new highs set as new lows
however it's been completely out of whack particularly uh... in the last
uh... in the last year
what do you think that is that when you hear about that do you say
we need to think of uh... some kind of explanation that has nothing to do with
climate change in the effects of human beings on this planet
or do you say there's something going on here
i think
i died
my views fit with the vast majority of the scientific views on this that we are
causing
chances are we are causing some type of change scientists say that natural
variability
probably did play a role in the extreme heat in front of the last year
however
part of it is not do
uh... part of it is due to greenhouse gases and and what is going on here
people seem to think that
in order to curb
man man-made
climate change
we need to kind of go back to the stone age or something like that and that's
really not the case there's a alot some interesting studies done and one says
that estimates are that it would cost about four percent of worldwide g_d_p_
to fully tackle climate change
now that's a staggering amount of money on at the nine oh four percent of world
g_d_p_ is staggering
what are we so afraid of rather we're not going to be going back to the stone
age technology now has ways of really
tackling what we think of the biggest factors in man-made climate change
and uh... it's really guy i think it comes down to the media if mainstream
media seriously
start taking the climate change narrative
add something that is not well on the one hand ninety nine percent of
scientists say this and on the other hand one percent of scientists say this
in both their equally valid of mainstream media really take takes this
for what it is uh... essentially a scientific consensus i think they could
uh... waves of change in how this is handled
and that the four percent
is really more of a preventive uh...
would be prevented spending really a lot of that if you're going to end up
spending a lot more than that when you have to deal with how bad things really
get
it's not just the media i mean there were a lot of
corporate uh... interests here
but they're operate through the media
right and in other words corp goes corporate interests well ultimately lead
a rally i mean take learning in our country
they don't operate through the media they operate through uh... the political
system
but ok so give me an example of how without touching the media they are
influencing of people's opinion about this
campaign for me
him every day they make sure that the people making the rules
are on their side by serious ernie els
with the media is important to having you can you can give that one percent
uh...
equal footing
with the vast majority of signs of red as we've talked about many times as
mainstream media attitude of everything has its own it's opposing side and you
have to have an equally valid counterpoint every argument
shouldn't happen with gay marriage it really shouldn't happen with climate
change which is even more allot cited in opinion
right that is the issue of uh... marriage equality it's it's
disappointing will see it mainstream media actually starts handling the
senate adult way
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