From Stephen Colbert to Steve Doocy: 7 Videos to Watch This Week

categories: Activism, Arctic & Antarctic, Clean Energy, Fossil Energy, Global Warming Denial, Greenhouse Gas, Imagining the Future, Media, Politics, Science, Security

Published July 01, 2009 @ 05:55PM PT

1. The Colbert Report, May 7, 2009: Smokin' Pole - The Fight for Arctic Riches

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Jeff Goldblum

Arctic nations rush to stake claims in polar territories, even though it clearly belongs to America -- Superman lives there.

2. Al Gore warns on latest climate trends

Al Gore presents updated slides from around the globe to make the case that worrying climate trends are even worse than scientists predicted, and to make clear his stance on "clean coal."

3. Bill McKibben: Fighting Climate Change in the Obama Era

Greenpeace UK has a chat over coffee with veteran US "environmental guru" Bill McKibben. McKibben has been agitating and organising to make governments take strong action on climate change for the past 20 years. Until there is a mass movement that both gives politicians the space to act, he believes, and forces them to do so, change will be halting.

4. Ray Zahab treks to the South Pole

Extreme runner Ray Zahab shares an enthusiastic account of his record-breaking trek on foot to the South Pole in January 2009 -- a 33-day sprint through the snow. Zahab broke the record for fastest unsupported trek across Antarctica, to raise awareness and money for kids' environmental education.

5. The American Denial of Global Warming

Why do some Americans still believe that there is "no solid" evidence of global warming, or that if warming is happening it can be attributed to natural variability? Or that scientists are still debating the point? Scientist and renowned historian Naomi Oreskes describes her investigation into the reasons for such widespread mistrust and misunderstanding of scientific consensus and probes the history of organized campaigns designed to create public doubt and confusion about science. Via University of California
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6. The Daily Show, June 1, 2009: Bob Woodruff chats with Jon Stewart about global warming

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Jason Jones in Iran

Experts say over the next hundred years the "perfect storm" of population growth, resource depletion and climate change could converge with catastrophic results. On the eve of the broadcast of ABC's "Earth 2100" special, Bob Woodruff lays out the worst-case scenario for the future of civilization, and how we can act now to set a different course.

7. Fox News reports global temperature decline falsehood as if it's true

Several Fox News figures have used a purportedly "suppressed" EPA document to advance the falsehood that, in Steve Doocy's words, "for the last 11 years, temperatures had been dropping." More at Media Matters for America.

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Illuminating. I expecially liked Noami Oreskes' address. Took a lot of time but well worth the pursuit. Thanks for the information.

Posted by Oceania OZ on 07/01/2009 @ 10:00PM PT
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The Fox News segment is ridiculous. Do the Fox News figures believe reiterating the size of the report will bolster its credibility and applicability? And why exactly should UN reports be ignored?

Posted by Solar Electric Light Fund on 07/02/2009 @ 08:43AM PT
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I loved Noami Oreskes' lecture - I also love the placement of the Fox news reports after it - it goes to show that our news system today is still trying to claim that global warming and the science behind it is "in question" or "false". Fox News should be ashamed and the "scientist" at the EPA must be getting serious paychecks from the Coal and Oil industries for his "report".

Posted by Kristen Magno on 07/02/2009 @ 11:44AM PT
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Naomi Oreskes' lecture demonstrates a very impressive thoroughness of research, and her delivery was excellent, also. But most important of all is her ability to search for and find the truth. This is in exact contradistinction to those who have tried to obscure the truth to forward their own political agendas. It may be typical human behavior, but if we cannot evolve beyond it, humans may not be around for much longer.

Posted by Craig Nazor on 08/01/2009 @ 11:22PM PT
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