Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) has teamed up with David Letterman for the first season of a new web series on Climate Change - “Boiling the Frog”
The series title is a reference to the analogy Al Gore used about how the slow warming of our planet makes people less likely to notice and thus less likely to care about Climate Change.
The series has been created by the website Funny Or Die and “the geniuses behind Years of Living Dangerously,” as Franken describes the producers of the Emmy award-winning climate change series.
In the first episode, Franken talks about climate change by making an analogy: an overweight heavy smoker wants to find a doctor who will tell him he doesn’t have to change his lifestyle at all. The question is, just who is this doctor?
In an interview with AP, Franken said — Since taking office, President Trump has decided to disregard science in order to repeatedly put the short-sighted interests of his friends in the fossil fuel industry ahead of the safety of our planet. We hope to bring some much needed attention to this critical issue and ultimately, to help encourage people in Minnesota, Dave's home state of Indiana and all Americans to make their voices heard and join the fight to combat climate change.
Letterman on Trump in an AP interview —
Here's what I keep saying: We know there's something wrong, but what I'm tired of is people, daily, nightly, on all the cable news shows telling us there's something wrong. I just think we ought to direct our resources and our energies to doing something about it. And other people have made this point: If the guy was running Dairy Queen, he'd be gone. This guy couldn't work at The Gap.
So why do we have to be victimized by his fecklessness, his ignorance? But it's just the behavior is insulting to Americans, whether you voted for him or not - and I feel bad for people who did vote for him because he promised them things that they really needed and one wonders if he's really going to come through.
I know there's trouble in this country and we need a guy who can fix that trouble. I wish it was Trump, but it's not, so let's just stop whining about what a goon he is and figure out a way to take him aside and put him in a home.
Years of Living Dangerously is an American documentary television series focusing on global warming. The first season, of nine weekly episodes, premiered in the US on April 13, 2014, on Showtime. It won an Emmy Award as Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series. The second season, consisting of eight episodes, aired on the National Geographic Channel, beginning on October 30, 2016, with broader international distribution than the first season. Executive producers included James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Robert Palumbo, and series creators Joel Bach and David Gelber (formerly of 60 Minutes). Joseph Romm and Heidi Cullen were the chief science advisors. — en.wikipedia.org/...
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You can watch all 6 episodes at www.funnyordie.com/… and let’s share with others.
Here is the first episode on youtube -