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FN/Climate Files 54 – Sound the Alarm

MOVING on with news and politics about global warming in the new year.   Let’s forget COP15 even happened.  Look ahead, what else can we do?  Today Climate Files includes a recent short interview with climate scientist James Hansen largely about his book Storms of my Grandchildren. Remember:  sounding the alarm is not alarmism — it’s [...]

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Howard Zinn gives us some advice on dealing with our government. When your government commits crimes, you have to respond in a way that makes them change their behavior. This is where civil disobedience comes in. Civil disobedience has a long respected history in many countries, including the U.S. Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, [...]

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This is a show from the CBC, an interesting look at what makes a society “healthy, ” in more ways than one. It is also a filler show until I start recording them. Enjoy this recording from the CBC. Download this episode here.

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Noam Chomsky on Wars, Bailouts and Elections. This is from an alternative radio program, from November 2008, and is meant to basically be a placeholder here until I start recording episodes. Enjoy some Noam in a pre-climate Futurism Now. Download this episode here.

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Top 10 Censored stories from Project censored, as reported by FSRN. The number one story is the death toll in Iraq, which is now amounting to a media blackout–over a million people dead, surpassing the Rwanda massacre death toll. One censored story was about Infragard, which I talked about in my Civilianism podcast [...]

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In one day we get a new president, after 8 long years of a presidency that started out bad and got worse until it descended into the depths of “net loss” for the U.S.   We would have done better with no president at all for the last eight years.   How bad was the Bush administration [...]

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This is the full inauguration address of President Barack Obama, January 20, 2009. Imagine this: We not only have “hope” back but we have a president who respects science and the law again. What a relief! (and yes, I wrote that without cynicism or sarcasm). See CivilianismNews.com for more. Transcript of the inaugural speech here. Download here or [...]

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Before this podcast was about climate, it was about news in general. This episode is mostly about the inauguration and what the new Secretary of State (Hillary)  may work on in the next few weeks. Israel’s war with Palestine is finally over. Also, hear Obama take the oath of office a SECOND time. This was [...]

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Before this was a climate podcast, it was a news podcast. That’s what this episode was. Wondering what President Obama is busy doing to promote peace in the Middle East? He starts with trying to return the US to the “moral high ground” by ending torture and signing an executive order to close the [...]

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Before this was a climate podcast . . . it was a news broadcast. This episode covers climate change, news about Karl Rove, news about diplomatic efforts, and the 819 billion dollar stimulus package that Obama wants passed. No Republicans voted to pass it in the House on Wednesday night and it passed [...]

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As I promised in the last podcast, I am posting the entire Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Climate Change/Global Warming with Al Gore, John Kerry, Russ Feingold, and many others. The star was Al Gore and his expertise on climate change and how to deal with it. This is a must-listen committee [...]

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This is part 2 of Al Gore’s appearance at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee testifying on Climate Change, on Wednesday, January 28, 2009. Part 2 is also a must-listen episode. But it would help a lot to listen to part 1 first, and see the post on Part 1 for that. Here is Part 2

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This is the introductory episode. Futurism Now is about climate change, energy, politics and legislation to get us moving on climate change, and more. Is there a consensus on climate change among climate scientists? Yes, there is. We are past debate. It’s time for action! Support Action on Climate Change — Call your Congressmen and [...]

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The economy and the environment, the stimulus package and energy. What do Congress and the new President have planned concerning all of these things, and how serious are they about climate change? There are a lot of indicators in the stimulus package. This episode goes over a lot of what is in the [...]

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Here is the one and only humble Futurism Now promo. Spread it far and wide. I may fine-tune it some day, but for now, this is it. Apparently, this podcast is about everything! Not quite. For instance, it’s not about baseball. We need to build an environmental movement that will battle climate change and the [...]

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Fight the recession or fight global warming? We can do both. This episode covers Carbon news, carbon basics, what we’re facing, cap and trade versus cap and dividend, coal and a portion of an interview with Ted Nace about coal. Join me for fascinating climate info. Solar did pretty well in the stimulus package, as [...]

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Tuesday morning (February 24) there was a very interesting event called the National Clean Energy Project Conference–Building the New Economy–Wired for Progress and we have the audio from it. This is part I. This conference was mainly about transmission of the smart grid that is to come, creating thousands of new jobs, and the low [...]

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This episode is part 2 of the Center for American Progress’s forum entitled “National Clean Energy Project: Building the New Economy–Wired for Progress” that was held on Monday, February 23, 2009 in Washington, DC. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was [...]

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What’s coming in the future and will capitalism play a part? Soon people will be concerned with bigger problems than economic models, such as environmental migration and shortages, but money will play a part. The survival of civilization depends on our imagination, creativity, on our sense of identity and community and how [...]

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This is a presentation of the latest science on climate change, as presented before the U.S. Senate Environmental and Public Works committee, one of our new “Burn Units”. The planet is burning up and our government is ready to get to work. This is part one, and part two will only be on [...]

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