Sunday, September 04, 2005
real time
Great episode tonight.
Interviews with: Anderson Cooper, climatologist Stephan Schneider and Fareed Zakaria
Panelists: Michael Eric Dyson, Bradley Whitford and Mary Frances Berry
I'm so glad that Bill had an actual climatologist on tonight who explained, in laymen's terms, the direct connection between global warming and uber-hurricanes. Hurricanes, you see, get their fuel from warm water, which is why hurricane season is during the summer through November (it takes a while for large bodies of water to cool off after being heated all summer). When the water is hotter, the hurricanes have more fuel and get bigger. The Gulf of Mexico is about three or four degrees warmer than average, which when magnified on a massive scale, was enough to generate a hurricane like Katrina. They also talked about The Day After Tomorrow, so that was validating.
I love Bradley Whitford. He's like his Josh Lyman character from The West Wing without the arrogance. Smart, charming and a die-hard liberal. He'd make a great candidate for something.
Dr. Berry is an inspiration and a national treasure. Given what's happening with the subtle dismantling of the Commission on Civil Rights these days, it's a little sad to know that the work she did as its chair for 12 years is being rapidly undone. Nevertheless, she was reasonable, likeable and articulate. I had the honor of hearing her speak last year at Creating Change in St. Louis. She has a humbling way of putting terrible tragedies in perspective, as she did tonight with the survival looting in New Orleans.
No surprise that I like the show better without any Bush apologists as guests or panelists. Why give them another platform to spin and obfuscate? They control virtually every other TV show in political broadcasting except for this one and The Daily Show. Let them lie on Fox or CNN. We do humor better anyway.
Interviews with: Anderson Cooper, climatologist Stephan Schneider and Fareed Zakaria
Panelists: Michael Eric Dyson, Bradley Whitford and Mary Frances Berry
I'm so glad that Bill had an actual climatologist on tonight who explained, in laymen's terms, the direct connection between global warming and uber-hurricanes. Hurricanes, you see, get their fuel from warm water, which is why hurricane season is during the summer through November (it takes a while for large bodies of water to cool off after being heated all summer). When the water is hotter, the hurricanes have more fuel and get bigger. The Gulf of Mexico is about three or four degrees warmer than average, which when magnified on a massive scale, was enough to generate a hurricane like Katrina. They also talked about The Day After Tomorrow, so that was validating.
I love Bradley Whitford. He's like his Josh Lyman character from The West Wing without the arrogance. Smart, charming and a die-hard liberal. He'd make a great candidate for something.
Dr. Berry is an inspiration and a national treasure. Given what's happening with the subtle dismantling of the Commission on Civil Rights these days, it's a little sad to know that the work she did as its chair for 12 years is being rapidly undone. Nevertheless, she was reasonable, likeable and articulate. I had the honor of hearing her speak last year at Creating Change in St. Louis. She has a humbling way of putting terrible tragedies in perspective, as she did tonight with the survival looting in New Orleans.
No surprise that I like the show better without any Bush apologists as guests or panelists. Why give them another platform to spin and obfuscate? They control virtually every other TV show in political broadcasting except for this one and The Daily Show. Let them lie on Fox or CNN. We do humor better anyway.
