Published on Mar 25, 2016
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency gave the thumbs-up to the genetically modified potato, but how will the consumers react to the spiffed-up spud? RT America’s Anya Parampil is joined by Alex Mihailovich in Toronto.
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Published on Mar 25, 2016
Melli Productions Presents a Global Collaboration…
Climate Change Special France Dec. 2015 – hosted by Christian Poirier of Amazon Watch and Alec Baldwin.
Special Thanks to Ana Luis Anjus and the UNDP Equator Prize team.
See particularly, comments of Kumi Naidoo:
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Published on Mar 4, 2016
The latest on the huge temp jumps in 2015 and in the last few months. From looking at the data,we are past 1.5C average global temp ,getting close to a 2C temp. Exponential function is running the show now.
Leading scientist lays out for you the connections.The only truth teller, Professor Guy McPherson. Included is some info about the relationship of runaway climate change and economic collapse.
Please Note: When Guy McPherson says, “125 years,” please replace with “125,000 years.”
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Published on Jan 19, 2016
All life on Earth is threatened by catastrophic climate change–the main culprit is so powerful that the U.S. government is setup to serve it, rather than regulate it.
The oil industry is a powerhouse with control over land, resources, politics and more. In this episode of The Empire Files, Abby Martin uncovers big oil’s strong-arm reach–its growth, its crimes, its power and its impunity.
Featuring interviews with two investigative journalists who have covered oil disasters on-the-ground–Antonia Juhasz, author of “Black Tide: The Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill”, and Greg Palast, author of “Vulture’s Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pig, Power Pirates, and High-Finance Carnivores.”
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Published on Jan 2, 2014
Tim Wise: The numbers expose the official distortions around NAFTA’s failed promises
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A fracking well in the Eagle Ford Shale region, near Karnes City, Texas. (AP Photo / Aaron M. Sprecher)
Our leaders thought fracking would save our climate. They were wrong. Very wrong.
By Bill McKibben March 23, 2016
Global warming is, in the end, not about the noisy political battles here on the planet’s surface. It actually happens in constant, silent interactions in the atmosphere, where the molecular structure of certain gases traps heat that would otherwise radiate back out to space. If you get the chemistry wrong, it doesn’t matter how many landmark climate agreements you sign or how many speeches you give. And it appears the United States may have gotten the chemistry wrong. Really wrong.
There’s one greenhouse gas everyone knows about: carbon dioxide, which is what you get when you burn fossil fuels. We talk about a “price on carbon” or argue about a carbon tax; our leaders boast about modest “carbon reductions.” But in the last few weeks, CO2’s nasty little brother has gotten some serious press. Meet methane, otherwise known as CH4.
In February, Harvard researchers published an explosive paper in Geophysical Research Letters. Using satellite data and ground observations, they concluded that the nation as a whole is leaking methane in massive quantities. Between 2002 and 2014, the data showed that US methane emissions increased by more than 30 percent, accounting for 30 to 60 percent of an enormous spike in methane in the entire planet’s atmosphere.
To the extent our leaders have cared about climate change, they’ve fixed on CO2. Partly as a result, coal-fired power plants have begun to close across the country. They’ve been replaced mostly with ones that burn natural gas, which is primarily composed of methane. Because burning natural gas releases significantly less carbon dioxide than burning coal, CO2 emissions have begun to trend slowly downward, allowing politicians to take a bow. But this new Harvard data, which comes on the heels of other aerial surveys showing big methane leakage, suggests that our new natural-gas infrastructure has been bleeding methane into the atmosphere in record quantities. And molecule for molecule, this unburned methane is much, much more efficient at trapping heat than carbon dioxide.
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Published on Feb 18, 2016
Abby Martin outlines the disastrous effects of so-called “free trade” policy NAFTA, including the ejection of over two million Mexican farmers, a surge in sweatshop labor and the destruction of Mexico’s food sovereignty.
WATCH FULL EPISODE // http://mediaroots.org/the-empires-war…
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Published on Dec 22, 2015
On this week’s episode of The Empire Files, Abby Martin interviews American political figure Ralph Nader about the 2016 presidential race—from the “Brown Shirt” Trump movement to “corporate criminal” Hillary Clinton—and the reality of who has power in America.
Known for his widely-popular presidential run in 2000, he also ran presidential campaigns against corporate power in 1996, 2004 and 2008.
A consumer advocate since the 1950’s, his work against auto industry giants forced the creation of mandated safety measures that saved millions of lives from for-profit auto production. His contributions span disability rights to exposing corporate pollution.
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Published on Feb 22, 2016
Consumer advocate Ralph Nader says the both the Republican and Democratic parties are subservient to corporate power.
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Published on Feb 18, 2016
Ralph Nader says Scalia interpreted the constitution hypocritically as he extended the bill of rights from persons to corporations
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