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It was announced this morning that President Obama will attend the climate summit in Copenhagen, and he also announced his emissions targets: in the range of 17% by 2020. This is great news! It s also bad news. Is this the best America can do? This response to climate change [...]

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. [...]

Climate change will be very much about justice in the years and decades to come.  This is Episode8 of the podcasting marathon known as Napodpomo.  Green money Green jobs Green greed the Jolly Green Giant Known as Copenhagen Is climate change stalling and finger-pointing  green insanity?  Not everything can be called green. Economic INjustice means those [...]

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 [...]

We are not powerless when we are armed with the facts! This episode contains the real serious truth about climate change but also some interesting tips on how to talk about it with  the facts on your side. Obviously, the American public needs to be made more aware of climate change and global [...]

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 [...]

This episode contains information on the G8, the Senate delay on the climate bill, T. Boone Pickens, and the coal related crime of mountain top removal. What happened at the G8 summit, why is T. Boone Pickens giving up on the world s biggest wind farm in Texas, and what happened to the climate bill in [...]

Enjoy your life while you can, because nothing we are doing right now will likely stop climate change in time. That is the terrifying message from Sir James Lovelock, famous UK scientist and inventor. Global heating will proceed. All Congress does is pass a cap and trade bill which won t even cut emissions [...]

With this episode you are beginning Climatology classes here at Futurism Now University.  Along with politics, upcoming episodes will also deal with the cold, hard scientific facts of climate change. It s important that people know why strong climate legislation is important. We have about two weeks to strengthen the Waxman-Markey bill (aka the American clean [...]

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 [...]

We have four years but that s not the number to remember. 350 is the number and now is our window of opportunity to deal with CO2 emissions. Republicans put out disinformation and Futurism Now tries to counteract it. Hear about Eco activism with Bill McKibben. He [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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