Walrus Stampede
September 15th, 2009
Bestselling author and investigative journalist Greg Palast joins host Daphne Wysham to discuss how the oil company Chevron is behind the firing of hurricane experts at Louisiana State University. The case of fired Louisiana State University professor, Ivor van Heerden is in the movie Big Easy to Big Empty.
Melting sea ice is pushing Pacific walruses onto land and resulting in unusual, massive herds of the animals. On the same week that the federal government agreed to review putting the walrus on the endangered species list – a herd in Alaska stampeded killing hundreds of the animals. Joining us discuss how oil and gas drilling is affecting the walruses is biologist Shaye Wolf of the Climate Law Institute at the Center for Biological Diversity.
The plan to create carbon offsets in the current U.S. climate bill could result in offsetting any true action on climate change. Michael Despines, the Friends of the Earth Climate Resilience Campaign Coordinator, discusses what’s coming us next in the U.S. Senate in this week’s edition of our ongoing series, the Countdown to Copenhagen.
Image copyright The Center for Biological Diversity – Bill Hickey.
Our theme music is Baladi by Tony Anka, Bellydance Superstars vol. 2.
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