The Global Warming Reader
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Length: 28:40
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This is a comprehensive resource edited by the most widely respected writer on the environment today. The Global Warming Reader brings together seminal texts and voices on climate change from the phenomenon’s 19th century discovery to the present. Divided into three parts – Science, Politics, and Meaning – it contains a transcript of NASA scientist James Hansen’s testimony before Congress, George Monbiot’s biting, convincing indictment of who is really using up the planet’s resources: and New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert’s groundbreaking essay “The Darkening Sea”
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This is a comprehensive resource edited by the most widely respected writer on the environment today. The Global Warming Reader brings together seminal texts and voices on climate change from the phenomenon’s 19th century discovery to the present. Divided into three parts – Science, Politics, and Meaning – it contains a transcript of NASA scientist James Hansen’s testimony before Congress, George Monbiot’s biting, convincing indictment of who is really using up the planet’s resources: and New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert’s groundbreaking essay “The Darkening Sea”
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KCBX Public Radio
Timing and Cues
Segment A Outcue at 14:25: " ... in just a moment."
62 second music bed
Segment B Incue at 15:27: "I'd like to return ... "
Musical Works
| Title | Artist | Album | Label | Year | Length |
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| PVC IV (theme) | Blue Man Group | Audio. | 1999 | 00:00 |
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