The Reverse Keeling Curve: Greenhouse Gases from Ice Cores

University of California Television (UCTV)

Published on Jul 5, 2016

(Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/) Scripps Institution’s own Jeff Severinghaus takes you on a thorough exploration of the record that greenhouse gases captured in ice for nearly a million years tells us, and explains what this reveals about current human activities and future conditions for our planet. Series: “Jeffrey B. Graham Perspectives on Ocean Science Lecture Series” [7/2016] [Science] [Show
ID: 30661]

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Will The United States Ever Pay Reparations To Descendants of Slaves?

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Published on Jul 5, 2016

Thom talks to caller Bill, who asks what Thom thinks about reparations.

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What Will We Be Eating in 2030?

FORA.tv

Published on Jul 5, 2016

Chef J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, Managing Culinary Director of Serious Eats, and WIRED’s Adam Rogers on GMOs and the future of food at the Bay Area Book Festival.

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Congress spends more time fundraising than legislating ‒ FishTank

RT America

Published on Jul 5, 2016

Believe it or not, congressional representatives spend more time in Washington, DC fundraising than actually legislating. The claims have been made in a new book ‘The Confessions of Congressman X’ authored by an anonymous congressman. RT America’s Lindsay France sits down with Rep. David Jolly (R-Florida) in the FishTank to discuss his bill, called the Stop Act, that would end direct solicitations for campaign donations by representatives during the legislative session. Then, France speaks with Robert Atkinson, the editor of Congressman X’s book, who says 60-70 percent of a legislator’s time is spent raising money.

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Republicans Are Too Scared To Let The Pentagon Talk About Climate Change!

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Published on Jul 5, 2016

Thom talks about the recent Republican vote to bar the Pentagon from dealing with climate change.

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What To Do In A World Crisis…

The Big Picture RT

Published on Jun 30, 2016

Ambassador Dr. Alison Thompson, Third Wave Volunteers joins Thom. Over the last 5 years – around 11 million refugees have fled Syria to refugee caps in neighboring countries. Find out about one woman’s unique strategies to improve their lives

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Andrea Harden-Donahue, Energy and Climate Justice Campaigner

CouncilofCanadians

Uploaded on Jun 16, 2011

System Change not Climate Change is a multi-media tool for climate justice that is being organized by the Council of Canadians’ Climate Justice for People and the Planet campaign. http://systemchange.ca

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Teaming with Microbes: The Organic Gardener’s Guide to the Soil Food Web, Revised Edition: Jeff Lowenfels, Wayne Lewis

The 2011 Garden Writers of America Gold Award for Best Writing/Book proves soil is anything but an inert substance. Healthy soil is teeming with life — not just earthworms and insects, but a staggering multitude of bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms. When we use chemical fertilizers, we injure the microbial life that sustains healthy plants, and thus become increasingly dependent on an arsenal of artificial substances, many of them toxic to humans as well as other forms of life.

But there is an alternative to this vicious circle: to garden in a way that strengthens, rather than destroys, the soil food web — the complex world of soil-dwelling organisms whose interactions create a nurturing environment for plants. By eschewing jargon and overly technical language, the authors make the benefits of cultivating the soil food web available to a wide audience, from devotees of organic gardening techniques to weekend gardeners who simply want to grow healthy, vigorous plants without resorting to chemicals.

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Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty (History of Communication): Alex Carey

Alexander Edward Carey was an Australian writer and social psychologist. Before enrolling at London University, Carey had been a sheep farmer for ten years on his family’s property near Geraldton in Western Australia.

Carey points out that citizens living in totalitarian regimes have no choice but to toe the government line out of fear for their personal safeties. In free societies, Carey explains that more subtle means are used to keep populations under control. Specifically, propaganda is used to ensure that most people will think in a manner that is consistent with the corporate agenda (such as belief in the free market and business’ right to unlimited profit). Carey documents how Americans and Australians have been subjected to corporate propaganda during most of the 20th Century, and explains how these efforts have perverted our democracy (for example, American’s over willingness to fight communists, real or imagined, to protect capitalism). Indeed, while many Americans were conditioned during the Cold War to believe that propaganda existed only in the Soviet Union, China and other communist regimes, Carey persuasively argues that propaganda actually played (and continues to play) a more critical role in molding the attitudes of citizens in democracies.

Born: December 1, 1922, Geraldton, Australia

Died: November 30, 1987

Books: Taking the risk out of democracy

 

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Soil carbon: Deep ploughing benefits : Nature Climate Change

Harvard connection.

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