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Episode 277Sep 15, 2020

The Barry Bonds theory of climate change

A new way to talk to folks who say there’s no global warming because it’s cold where they live.

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The West Coast of the United States is burning, and chewable air is making its way into neighboring states. This is climate change. But we get it … it’s hard to talk to your loved ones about global warming when they’re thinking about the snow they might get this winter. What was that about warming again? So today we’re going to propose a new way of talking about the climate crisis — it puts whatever climate you’re in on steroids. It’s not all doom and gloom through, because we get to hear Paul Rudd say face masks are “beast.”

Here’s a list of everything we talked about today:

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The Barry Bonds theory of climate change