Author: Thom Hartmann

This Is What Runaway Climate Change Run Amok Looks Like – Thom Hartmann’s Big Picture

This Is What Runaway Climate Change Run Amok Looks Like – Thom Hartmann’s Big Picture

Posted by | Jan 5, 2016 | , |

For tonight’s Green Report we head all the way north – and I mean all the way north – to the north pole – where for a brief period last Wednesday – something very – very very strange happened.Temperatures shot up in the North Pole to just around freezing – which is 0 degrees celsius or 32 degrees Fahrenheit. And while that might sound downright polar to many people living in more temperate climes – it’s unseasonably warm for the arctic. In fact – it’s about 50 degrees above average. Imagine it being about 95 degrees Fahrenheit somewhere along...

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No Nukes! Why Are Our Nuclear Regulators Asleep At the Switch? – Thom Hartmann’s Big Picture

No Nukes! Why Are Our Nuclear Regulators Asleep At the Switch? – Thom Hartmann’s Big Picture

Posted by | Jan 5, 2016 | , |

In Nuke News we go out to San Diego County – California to the site of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating station – or SONGS for short. One of the most controversial nuclear power plants in the country – San Onofre is now on its way to closing down permanently. But its retirement plans now could be on hold in the wake of a report from an NBC-affiliate in California that the land around the facility could be contaminated by toxic materials. Paul Gunter, Beyond Nuclear joins...

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