Climate Change

Today Josh sits down for a conversation with Shahid Buttar for Congress to talk about the importance of challenging establishment democrats if we want a Green New Deal and journalist Alexander Zaitchik reports on how a legacy of corporate greed is harming the development of a Covid vaccine. May 18

Congresswoman Moves to Block Big Oil BailoutMay 15

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Leaked audio exposes a potential upcoming big oil bailout. John Iadarola and Ti-Hua Chang break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://tyt.com/stories/4vZLCHuQrYE4uKagy0oyMA/W4S5k0pbFCeeVR6VqHnvW "Wall Street and some top oil and gas lobbyists expect a fossil fuel bailout in the next coronavirus stimulus package as part of a tradeoff in which renewable energy companies get tax credits, according to an internal Morgan Stanley report obtained by The Young Turks. Climate-change activists criticized the potential deal, calling it “terrible.” The report describes and links to audio of an April 22 conference call between Morgan Stanley and Akin Gump, one of the top lobbying firms in Washington. Akin Gump’s team consisted of a lawyer and four lobbyists, two of them former members of Congress, the other two former Republican staffers. Akin Gump represents numerous oil and gas interests, lobbying-disclosure forms show. In the first quarter of this year, Akin Gump lobbyists received $100,000 from two of the biggest oil companies in the world: ExxonMobil and Chevron. On the other end of the call were North American oil and gas analysts and a strategist from Morgan Stanley. The $80 billion investment bank has billions invested in fossil fuels and was the top broker of oil industry mergers and acquisitions in 2018 -- $49 billion worth." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksMay 15

Today Josh sits down for a conversation with writer and organizer Anthony Rogers-Wright and just like every Friday he'll be joined by jazz maestro Don Vappie and the dapper mixologist Christoph Dornemann from New Orleans!May 15

Today Josh talks to climatologist Michael Mann about the state of climate emergency and the importance of renewable energy for the future.May 13

Original green party member Howie Hawkins runs for president. He breaks down his campaign with John Iadarola on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://howiehawkins.us/about-howie/ "Howie Hawkins is the original Green New Dealer, the first US candidate to campaign for a Green New Deal in 2010. He is also one of the original Greens in the United States, having participated in the first national meeting to organize a US Green Party in St. Paul, Minnesota in August 1984. Howie became active in “The Movement” for civil rights and against the war in Vietnam in the 1960s as a teenager in the San Francisco Bay Area. Repelled by the racism and warmongering he saw in both major parties, he asked, “Where is my party?” From the start, he was committed to independent working-class politics for a democratic, socialist, and ecological society. He supported the Peace and Freedom Party in 1968, the People’s Party in 1972 and 1976, and the Citizens Party in 1980. Since that first national meeting in 1984, Howie has been a Green Party organizer. As the Green Party’s candidate for governor of New York in 2010, 2014, and 2018, each time he received enough votes to qualify the Green Party for a ballot line for the next four years. In 2014, he received 5 percent of the vote, the most for an independent progressive party candidates for governor in New York history except for Socialist candidates who received 5.7% in 1918 and 5.6% in 1920." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksMay 11

Morgan Stanley Analyst Called for Reopening the Economy to Help Oil PricesMay 6

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Wall Street and Big Oil See a Democratic Compromise on Fossil Fuel BailoutMay 5

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This coronavirus condition has made the virus significantly more lethal and no one is talking about it. John Iadarola and activist Josh Fox explain what it is and why you should be concerned on TYT's Earth Day special. April 22

Is COVID-19 a small tease for what the next global crisis will look like? John Iadarola and climate campaign director for Greenpeace USA, Janet Redman break down lessons for the climate crisis frontline on TYT's Earth Day special.April 22

TYT's Climate Change Reporter Ti-Hua Chang and John Iadarola discuss what is stopping the US from switching to 100% renewable energy on TYT's Earth Day special. April 22

The Sunrise Movement has reacted and adapted to the global pandemic. John Iadarola and Varshini Prakash discuss on TYT's Earth Day special. April 22

The youth of today are fighting for the future of humanity. John Iadarola and Neha Desaraju (US Youth Climate Strike) discuss on TYT's Earth Day special.April 22

Coronavirus is more lethal due to prior air pollution. John Iadarola and Emma Vigeland break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/climate/air-pollution-coronavirus-covid.html "WASHINGTON — Coronavirus patients in areas that had high levels of air pollution before the pandemic are more likely to die from the infection than patients in cleaner parts of the country, according to a new nationwide study that offers the first clear link between long-term exposure to pollution and Covid-19 death rates. In an analysis of 3,080 counties in the United States, researchers at the Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that higher levels of the tiny, dangerous particles in air known as PM 2.5 were associated with higher death rates from the disease. For weeks, public health officials have surmised a link between dirty air and death or serious illness from Covid-19, which is caused by the coronavirus. The Harvard analysis is the first nationwide study to show a statistical link, revealing a “large overlap” between Covid-19 deaths and other diseases associated with long-term exposure to fine particulate matter." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksApril 22

Activist Bill McKibben and John Iadarola discuss the connection between coronavirus and climate change on TYT's Earth Day special. April 22

Julian Noisecat (Data for Progress) and John Iadarola discuss the role of communities of color in the fight against climate change on TYT's Earth Day special. April 22

How are youth climate activists adapting to the global pandemic? John Iadarola and Nadia Nazar break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: http://thisiszerohour.org/who-we-are/ "Zero Hour started with our founders, Jamie Margolin, Nadia Nazar, Madelaine Tew, and Zanagee Artis. Frustrated by the inaction of elected officials and the fact that youth voices were almost always ignored in the conversation around climate change and the profound impact that it would have on young people, Jamie started gathering several of her friends in the summer of 2017 to start organizing something big, something hard to ignore! Nadia Nazar, Madelaine Tew, and Zanagee Artis joined her in her efforts. They realized that a national day of mass action, led by youth, would be an ideal platform to ensure that young voices were not only centered in this conversation, but that elected officials and adults would hear their voices loud and clear! By the end of the summer, young activists from across the country, from diverse backgrounds, had joined the team and Zero Hour had started taking shape." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksApril 20

Keep Hope (and TYT) Alive: http://tyt.com/go 'True North' follows TYT host John Iadarola and journalist Chavala Madlena on a journey throughout the Arctic, presenting an unprecedented view of life in a part of the world that few will ever see. From exploring a shattered coal mine to an expedition through the Arctic Ocean, Iadarola and Madlena provide a unique perspective on life in the Arctic and the impact climate change has had on the land and its people. Combining adventure, dynamic human-interest stories and a bit of danger, True North brings viewers to the front lines of our reckoning with global climate change. In our introductory episode we meet our hosts John Iadarola and Chavala Madlena as they prepare for a month-long expedition in the High Arctic to learn about life in a place that has become a flashpoint in the conversation about climate change. We begin our journey North in the town of Tromso, Norway with a crash course in Polar History. Then John pays a visit to Tore Albrigtsen, a professional musher who’s competed in the Iditarod and Yukon Quest, and spends some time with his fun-loving sled dogs. We find out what it takes to travel in some of the world’s most challenging environments, then join Tore on the trail where John mushes his own team of sled dogs. John explores the island’s fossils and coal deposits from its prehistoric past as a tropical forest, and examines the history of mining on Svalbard. Chavala spends the night in Pyramiden, a once vibrant Soviet-Era ghost town that was abandoned after a tragic plane crash killed 141 of its few hundred residents. With the help of our Russian guide Victoria and our polar bear guard Renee, we explore this piece of polar history and the haunting tale it tells about the town’s former inhabitants.April 20

Oil Company Pushes for Federal Aid While Moving to Push Out WorkersApril 17

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The Green Fight for Coronavirus Stimulus MoneyApril 4

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Trump uses coronavirus to destroy our environment. How is he doing so? John Iadarola and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/3/29/21198674/coronavirus-epa-trump-regulations "The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced a freeze on enforcing environmental regulations due to the coronavirus pandemic that is so sweeping in scope that critics have begun to argue the change is actually a bid to advance the Trump administration’s long-standing deregulatory agenda. Under the new directive, announced Thursday, the EPA says it does “not expect to seek penalties for violations of routine compliance monitoring, integrity testing, sampling, laboratory analysis, training, and reporting or certification obligations in situations where the EPA agrees that Covid-19 was the cause of the noncompliance.” The rule, which will remain in place indefinitely, means factories, power plants, and other major polluters have tremendous discretion in deciding whether or not they think the coronavirus will prevent them from meeting legal requirements on air and water pollution and hazardous waste management. The EPA will not be fining companies for violating certain requirements on limiting pollution during this time." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksApril 3

Under the Cover of Coronavirus, Trump and Big Oil StrikeMarch 26

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Progressives got a huge primary. What is it? And how will this help the progressive movement? John Iadarola breaks it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.npr.org/2020/03/18/817667843/democratic-house-incumbent-ousted-by-progressive-challenger-in-illinois-primary "Rep. Dan Lipinski, a moderate eight-term Democratic congressman from Illinois, lost his primary on Tuesday to progressive challenger Marie Newman. Newman, a business consultant and founder of an anti-bullying nonprofit, narrowly lost to Lipinski in a 2018 primary in a suburban Chicago district by about 2 points. One of the last anti-abortion Democrats in Congress, Lipinski often bucked the mainstream of his party. He declined to endorse President Barack Obama in 2012, voted against the Affordable Care Act and opposed same-sex marriage until the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to make it legal in 2015. "I am bursting with pride and gratitude for the amazing coalition that helped bring about much needed change in our district," Newman wrote on Twitter. "We are going to work together to lower health care costs, to fight climate change, and to build an economy that works for everyone."" #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksMarch 18

Former NY Yankee runs for Congress. What are his plans if elected? John Iadarola and Michael Muscato break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.muscato4congress.com/ "My name is Michael Muscato and I believe that our elected official's job is to represent OUR voices, values, and votes. I am proud to announce my candidacy for United States Congress in Arizona’s Congressional District 8. I’m not here to tell you or your family what YOU need to do. I’m here to listen and learn what I can do FOR you. I want to know your ideas. I want to know what is important to you and your family. I want to know how I can help make your lives better. For my entire life as an Arizona native, that’s all I’ve ever wanted ANY of our representatives to do for me and my family. I have two little boys and a beautiful wife. We are starting to build our lives in these uncertain times as are so many of you. I have two parents who I love dearly who are entering the later phase in their own lives. I have a younger brother who serves our country valiantly with the United States Army. What lies ahead for all of us? It’s a question that I find myself asking all too often because of the volatility of our society. If we truly are a guardian nation let us do better for our children, for our families, and for ourselves." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksMarch 11

TYT has a new climate change reporter!March 9

How did the idea of the Green New Deal come about? John Iadarola and Julian Brave NoiseCat break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.julianbravenoisecat.com/ "I have been recognized as a finalist for the Livingston Award and nominated for the Canadian National Magazine Awards twice. I wrote the foreword to the Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada and was invited to consult for the forthcoming UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights' general comment on land rights. I have authored and edited many public policy briefs, memos, reports, polls, scorecards and other works, contributing to progressive platforms like the Green New Deal. The belief that Indigenous peoples can contribute to understanding and solving the world's most pressing challenges inspires my work. In 2019, I helped lead a grassroots effort to bring an Indigenous canoe journey to San Francisco Bay to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Alcatraz Occupation. Eighteen canoes representing communities from as far north as Canada and as far west as Hawaii participated in the journey, which was covered by dozens of local and national media outlets, including The New York Times. In addition to the canoe journey, I guest edited “Alcatraz is Not an Island”, a special issue of Open Space magazine, and moderated a four-part speaker series, “Alcatraz: An Unfinished Occupation”, co-hosted by five local museums." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksMarch 6

Trump's climate action or lack thereof will take us into an apocalyptic hole. John Iadarola and Julian Brave NoiseCat break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.julianbravenoisecat.com/ "I have been recognized as a finalist for the Livingston Award and nominated for the Canadian National Magazine Awards twice. I wrote the foreword to the Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada and was invited to consult for the forthcoming UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights' general comment on land rights. I have authored and edited many public policy briefs, memos, reports, polls, scorecards and other works, contributing to progressive platforms like the Green New Deal. The belief that Indigenous peoples can contribute to understanding and solving the world's most pressing challenges inspires my work. In 2019, I helped lead a grassroots effort to bring an Indigenous canoe journey to San Francisco Bay to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Alcatraz Occupation. Eighteen canoes representing communities from as far north as Canada and as far west as Hawaii participated in the journey, which was covered by dozens of local and national media outlets, including The New York Times. In addition to the canoe journey, I guest edited “Alcatraz is Not an Island”, a special issue of Open Space magazine, and moderated a four-part speaker series, “Alcatraz: An Unfinished Occupation”, co-hosted by five local museums." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksMarch 6

When will the Amazon rainforest stop processing carbon dioxide? It could happen much sooner than you think. John Iadarola breaks it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/04/tropical-forests-losing-their-ability-to-absorb-carbon-study-finds "Tropical forests are taking up less carbon dioxide from the air, reducing their ability to act as “carbon sinks” and bringing closer the prospect of accelerating climate breakdown. The Amazon could turn into a source of carbon in the atmosphere, instead of one of the biggest absorbers of the gas, as soon as the next decade, owing to the damage caused by loggers and farming interests and the impacts of the climate crisis, new research has found. If that happens, climate breakdown is likely to become much more severe in its impacts, and the world will have to cut down much faster on carbon-producing activities to counteract the loss of the carbon sinks. “We’ve found that one of the most worrying impacts of climate change has already begun,” said Simon Lewis, professor in the school of geography at Leeds University, one of the senior authors of the research. “This is decades ahead of even the most pessimistic climate models.”" #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksMarch 5

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