Congress Legislation Videos

LinkTV has a new weekly climate change video here and will appear on FN s news website every week also. I went to a talk tonight given by Sami Rasouli . . . He s an Iraqi-American who has been a peace activist for Iraq and he recently returned from a trip to Iraq. [...]

The Brutal Truth about climate change is this:  it s much worse, and much more threatening to our future, than the public thinks it is.  In fact, it has scientists scared.  Yet the political response is to work with business and work with Republicans and conservative Democrats like Joe Lieberman to get a passable bill that [...]

Two themes: How best to mitigate climate change legislatively, and jobs and energy specifically renewable energy discussed at the National Clean Energy Summit (website here). See the news items I discussed on the FN news site here. The most disappointing was that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton OK d the Alberta Clipper pipeline that was discussed last week.   There [...]

This episode is Part 2 of the highlights of the Senate hearing from the committee Environment and Public works from July 7th, 2009. You can listen to all 3+ hours of it from links on the committee website here. Many other hearings they have held recently are available there too. It s clear [...]

Could climate change lead to the end of civilization, a real collapse, like what happened to the Romans, the Aztecs, the Mayans? It s not inconceivable.   Today I have Part 1 of the Senate hearings on climate legislation from the Environment and Public Works committee.  The initial hearing has taken on new meaning, because since this [...]

Busting the myths of the cost of changing energy and capping emissions. But is the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 cap and trade bill right for right now or is it a waste of time? I gaze into my cloudy crystal ball and find the answer is not so clear. [...]

We need climate legislation before it s too late. According to a new May 5th CNN poll a majority of Americans DO want something done about climate change. Congress, are you listening? They need to hear from us. May 6th and every day is CALL IN day to Congress. But there [...]

The road to Copenhagen continues with the U.S. State Department s Major Economies forum, the world meeting on climate change, the last week in April. It was convened by President Obama. This episode plays the overview speech of Secretary Clinton at the beginning of the forum, and the televised interview with UN Secretary Yvo [...]

The EPA rules! Last Friday, April 17th, the EPA released a preliminary ruling on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse emissions, at last. These greenhouse gases are pollutants, and they are harming human health, now and for future generations. Finally the U.S. has the opportunity to lead on something worthwhile again. [...]

Highlights from Powershift09 sending a message to end the use of coal and as speaker Robert Kennedy put it, coal is a criminal enterprise. What they are doing to mountains and our air is nothing short of criminal. It s time to take action to stop coal. It s time for a citizens arrest of coal. [...]

The latest science on climate change, as presented before the U.S. Senate environmental and public works committee, one of our new Burn Units . (my term). The planet is burning up and our government is ready to get to work to save the patient. This is part two, only available on Futurism Now. The latest science [...]

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 [...]

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 I have all of 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, [...]

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 [...]

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