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Another Climate Record Bites The Dust...
 We have shattered another climate record. Just like the month before it, last month was the hottest March on record, and that's not good news for our species. According to a recent warning from the Japan Meteorological Agency, last month's record temperatures should be “a reminder of how perilously close we now are to permanently crossing into dangerous territory.” It's not only that last month was the warmest March since at least 1891, the average global temperatures broke that previous record by the greatest margin seen yet. In other words, March wasn't just the hottest March on record, the temperature spike was larger than any previous jump on record. That means that our planet is heating up at a faster pace than ever before. Andrew Freedman, who writes for Mashable, said that if April continues the trend of breaking monthly temperature records, “the Earth will have had an astonishing 12 month string of record-shattering months.” At this rate, we're getting dangerously close to hitting the two-degree Celsius limit that scientists have warned about. Renowned climate Dr. Michael Mann said, “It underscores the urgency of reducing global carbon emissions.” We must take immediate action to address these global trends, but somehow we're still fighting about whether or not action should be taken at all. If we continue to burn fossil fuels at the current rate, we are pretty much damning ourselves to a bleak and perilous future. For the sake of our species, we must break our fossil fuel addiction to fossil fuels and stop the cycle of record-breaking temperatures. -Thom (What do you think? Tell us here.) |
Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... 6 Years After the BP Oil Disaster... Has Anything Changed? (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)
 Be sure to check out our newest video: RESTORATION - narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio & Thom Hartmann, directed by Leila Conners / Visit GreenWorldRising.org to check out all the videos: CARBON, LAST HOURS & GREEN WORLD RISING - narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio & Thom Hartmann, directed by Leila Conners
In for Thom tonight, please welcome Progressive Sam Sacks, The District Sentinel News Co-op 
Big Picture Rumble:
- John Gray, Conservative Review
- Bridget Todd, Political Strategist
- Scott Greer, The Daily Caller
Best of the Rest: 6 Years After the BP Oil Disaster... Has Anything Changed?
- Antonia Juhasz, Black Tide / The Tyranny of Oil
Daily Take: Why is Our Government Working for the Private Good Over the Public Good?
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Quote: " The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the anti-war left and black people. We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting people to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, break up their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." - John Ehrlichman. Article: " Fireside Chat. May 26, 1940" by Franklin D. Roosevelt. " Our present emergency and a common sense of decency make it imperative that no new group of war millionaires shall come into being in this nation as a result of the struggles abroad." Speech: " Madison Square Garden Speech", President Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 31, 1936. " They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred"
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Quote: "I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you. " Lyndon B. Johnson. Article: " 2nd Amendment". A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
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Full Show 4/21/16: The Sanders' fundraising revolution continues
Guest host Sam Sacks is in for Thom Hartmann tonight and discusses Bernie raising $46 million in March, which is $19 million more than Hillary raised, and more than all the GOP candidates combined with Common Cause’s Stephen Spaulding, how cops are rallying against encryption with Fight for the Future’s Sean Vitka, and how the legacy of history's "prison reforms" was simply more prisons with Truthout’s Maya Schenwar. In tonight’s Daily Take, Thom discusses how the DOJ should prosecute the climate science deniers under the RICO Act like they did to the tobacco companies in the 1990s.
Bipartisan Group of Attorneys General Ask Obama to Pardon Don Siegelman
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6 Years After the BP Disaster, Life is Anything But Normal
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