{"id":8569,"date":"2011-06-15T21:54:56","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T04:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=8569"},"modified":"2013-11-27T21:31:56","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T05:31:56","slug":"brad-on-kpfk-finding-common-ground-between-right-left-on-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8569","title":{"rendered":"Brad on KPFK: Finding Common Ground Between Right & Left on Climate Change?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now, before I forget, a quick note to say that a)<\/b> I’ll be guest hosting the Mike Malloy Show<\/i><\/a> again beginning tomorrow (Thursday), weekdays through next Tuesday and b)<\/b> I will have what is no doubt a Malloy Show<\/i> first on tomorrow night’s show: one of my guests will be a 2012 Republican Presidential candidate. Which one? You’re welcome to guess, but otherwise, stay tuned.
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\nWith that tease out of the way…Today I had a special extended 90-minute BradCast on on L.A.’s Pacifica Radio affiliate KPFK<\/a>, as I filled in for the host of the hour-long show which follows my usual Wednesday, 3:30pm PT slot.<\/p>\n

And with that extra time we had today, I was finally<\/i> able to take some calls for a change (plus, discuss Mitt Romney’s alleged voter fraud<\/a> and some related issues). That was our first half-hour of the show, which you can listen to below.<\/p>\n

In the last 60 minutes, I was delighted to have two guests, together<\/i>, who had never spoken in person previously. The first is conservative\/libertarian D.R. Tucker — whose recent column, “Confessions of a Climate Change Convert”<\/a> was published at former Dubya speechwriter David Frum’s FrumForum.com<\/a>. The must-read article begins “I was defeated by the facts.” It then proceeds to explain how the man who had previously “joined others on the right in dismissing concerns about climate change,” and felt that “any movement associated with Al Gore and Van Jones couldn’t possibly be trusted, that environmentalists were simply left-wing, anti-capitalist kooks.”<\/p>\n

My second guest was Grist.org<\/a>‘s progressive environmental and political journalist David Roberts, who responded to Tucker’s astonishing column with an “Open letter to a conservative climate change convert,”<\/a> congratulating the former skeptic on having bothered to read the actual facts<\/i> (some 900 pages of them, as found in the 2007 Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change<\/a>), encouraging him to keep learning and offering several points where conservatives and greens might be able to begin to find common ground on this issue.<\/p>\n

And so, it was my hope that we’d be able to use radio to actually work on finding solutions<\/i>, for a change, rather than exacerbate conflict. And so we did in the second hour, after Tucker explained his remarkable conversion. That too is also available below for your listening pleasure (or displeasure)…<\/p>\n

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PART I<\/b>, Romney “voter fraud”, lots of open line callers.
\nDownload MP3<\/a>, or listen online below [appx 28 mins]…<\/i>
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PART II<\/b>, D.R. Tucker & David Roberts.
\nDownload MP3<\/a>, or listen online below [appx 58 mins]…<\/i>
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