Nature Bats Last - 12/08/2015

A show not to be missed as Mike and Guy discuss Michael Mann and his public position on climate change.

“We’ve got time”, intones Mann – everything Is far off into the future and methane clathrates are a “potential problem”

Discussing Michael Mann

This week Guy, Mike and Paul discuss and analyze the words of prominent climate scientist, Michael Mann. Guy adds some climate news as well.

This interview with British climate scientist Kevin Anderson was referenced during the show

Also referenced during the show

"The Paris Agreement Will See the Planet Burn": Former Bolivian Climate Negotiator Pablo Solón

He once sat at the same table as the world leaders gathered in Paris to hammer out a U.N. agreement on global warming. Now he stands on the outside. We speak with Pablo Solón, former chief negotiator on climate change for Bolivia, as well as the country’s former ambassador to the United Nations. "The target was: We shouldn’t go beyond an increase of two degrees Celsius," Salon says of negotiators’ failed attempts to limit an increase in global temperatures. "And now to be speaking about four or even five degrees Celsius is, to put it in other terms, to burn the planet."

All the politicians are liars - almost all. Here's one, from Nicuragua, who speaks the truth. Listen from about 7' onwards. If you listen to the whole thing you will find that a more pedantic-than-usual Amy Goodman doesn't really want to hear what he has to say.