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Laughing Instead of Crying: Climate Humor Can Break Down Barriers and Find Common Ground
By Maxwell Boykoff
Climate change is not inherently funny. Typically, the messengers are serious scientists describing how rising greenhouse gas emissions are harming the planet on land and at sea, or assessing what role it played in the latest wildfire or hurricane.
By Lakshmi Magon
This year, three studies showed that humor is useful for engaging the public about climate change. The studies, published in The Journal of Science Communication, Comedy Studies and Science Communication, added to the growing wave of scientists, entertainers and politicians who agree.
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By Alexandra Zissu
When Bjorn Quenemoen was a student at Bard College, he would host monthly popcorn parties. He would put up posters around campus, inviting everyone to his parties. At 10 p.m., on the appointed date, he would turn the lights down and put on some music.
The hosts of three major late night talk shows found President Donald Trump's most recent tweet on climate change so laughable that they devoted bits to it on their shows Tuesday night.
With temperatures in the Midwest predicted to plunge to life-threatening lows, Trump repeated his favorite cold-weather tradition early Tuesday morning by tweeting climate denial.
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Leave it to Stephen Colbert to make sure he mixes in some "lighter news" during his evening monologue on The Late Show. "The world is burning," Colbert begins. "The New York Times just published a report on the drastic impact of climate change on the U.S.," Colbert continued. "'Evidence for a changing climate abounds, from the top of the atmosphere to the depths of the oceans' and 'Americans are feeling the effects of climate change right now,'" Colbert read from Times report.
Do you plan to take a hot date to go see Al Gore's An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power? If so, be sure to watch this Stephen Colbert segment from Friday night's The Late Show offering the best Al Gore approved climate change pick-up lines.
Gore, who appeared on Colbert's show July 17 to promote his sequel to his 2006 climate change documentary An Inconvenient Truth, explained that his film is "an amazingly hot date movie." Colbert responded, "Because if the end of the world is coming, you might as well hook-up with me."
Watch the video above and let us know in the comments below which is your favorite pick-up line.
Last night on The Late Show, former Vice President Al Gore joined Stephen Colbert to discuss his new documentary, Trump's withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement, the massive iceberg that just broke off the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica and the benefits of renewable energy.
Watch as Stephen Colbert on The Late Show mocks President Trump's call to the mayor of Tangier, Virginia concerning the rapid coastline loss of the island, roughly 15 feet per year.
According to local outlet Delmarva Now, Trump placed the call to Tangier Mayor James "Ooker" Eskridge after seeing a CNN report on the impact sea level rise is having on the island.
"Trump said, 'Your island has been there for hundreds of years, and I believe your island will be there for hundreds more,'" the mayor reported.
Watch above.
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Colbert: Trump Couldn't Repeal ObamaCare So 'He Repealed the Environment' Instead
By Alexandra Rosenmann
President Trump's push for "clean coal," almost makes sense, explained Stephen Colbert.
"I know clean coal sounds like an oxymoron but so does President Trump," the Late Show host noted.
"There's really clean coal," insisted Colbert. "Back in high school, I had a girlfriend in Canada who was a clean coal miner."
In this video from Wired, former Vice President Al Gore answers the most popular climate change questions searched on Google.
His new documentary, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, gives a status update on his original film, An Inconvenient Truth, from 11 years ago. As Gore discussed with Stephen Colbert last week, the need for a sequel does not mean a complete lack of progress on protecting the planet.
Watch Neil deGrasse Tyson Tell Colbert How's He's Dealing With a Climate Denier Running the EPA
By Alexandra Rosenmann
American astrophysicist, celebrated author and director of the Hayden Planetarium at New York's Natural History Museum, Neil deGrasse Tyson, joined Stephen Colbert on Tuesday night. DeGrasse Tyson weighed in on claims made by Trump's new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency head.
Scott Pruitt "said he does not believe CO2 is the control knob for climate change," Colbert reminded his guest. "What is the present consensus of CO2 and climate change?"
"It's a greenhouse gas," deGrasse Tyson answered.
"People just talk," he continued. "I can't chase what people say because it flutters with the breeze."
DeGrasse Tyson warned that if Pruitt "puts down some legislation that requires that everyone [must go along with his beliefs], oh! Oh, my God! Hold me back!" he exclaimed.
"I'll hold you back," Colbert offered. "He's going to blow," he told the audience. "He's a crystal geyser!"
Watch here:
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By Alexandra Rosenmann
Noam Chomsky has a message for the resistance movement and the mainstream media alike: "Ridicule is not enough" to defeat Trumpism.
"We have to be a little cautious about not trying to kill a gnat with an atom bomb," he told George Yancy in a New York Times interview on July 5.
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Environmental activist Erin Brockovich appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to talk about the Flint water crisis. Brockovich said members of the Flint community reached out to her a year ago because they were concerned about how their water looked, tasted and smelled. She sent a team of experts to Flint to investigate and even drafted a protocol for how the city should deal with the problem.
She explained to the audience what went wrong in Flint and what the city needs to do to provide residents with potable water. Colbert then asked Brockovich if Flint was the tip of the "leadberg." Are there other communities facing similar problems?, he asked.
Brockovich answered with a resounding yes. "I can tell you that Flint, Michigan is the tip of the iceberg," she said. "I can tell you for certain that this is a national crisis that we are not getting ready to face. The crisis is already here. Even since Flint has hit the national stage, we've found out that Sebring, Ohio has the same problem ... The same thing is happening in Louisiana, and we're just now hearing rumors—I haven't verified it before I came out—we're having the same situation in Wisconsin."
Watch the interview with Brockovich here:
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Stephen Colbert: Winners of Iowa Caucuses 'Probably Did It By Sucking Up to Big Corn'
Stephen Colbert discussed the Iowa caucuses on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night. Although the show was filmed before the caucuses took place, the Late Show host had some predictions on who the winners would be.
"We know one thing, whoever wins tonight probably did it by sucking up to big corn, okay, nature's gold," Colbert said. "Because the big issue in Iowa is always corn subsidies. That's why in the last 20 years Iowa has received nearly $25 billion in farm subsidies ... and while I may not know who has won, I am celebrating the Iowa spirit tonight by eating foods only made by high fructose corn syrup."
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Stephen Colbert took time last night on the Late Show to mock the media hype over Joe Biden entering the presidential race. For the last several weeks, the media has been obsessing over whether Joe Biden will or won't enter the 2016 race. And now CNN is setting up a podium for the vice president just in case he decides to make a last minute appearance at the Democratic debate tonight.
Watch what Colbert has to say. It's hilarious!
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Stephen Colbert said on the Late Show last night, "With the Pope being in town last week, you might have missed the fact that this weekend we had a visit from another infallible leader of a billion people: Chinese President Xi Jinping."
Colbert called it a "landmark summit" with President Obama and President Xi addressing cyber-security and also China's plans to address its greenhouse gas emissions.
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John Oliver was a guest on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night. When Colbert asked Oliver what he thinks of Donald Trump, Oliver couldn't express enough how much he didn't care about The Donald. He pointed out how it's only 2015, and yet we are obsessing over the 2016 presidential candidates when there are far more important issues to be covering.
In his years on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and now hosting his own show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Oliver has covered some very pressing issues and he's done it in some really clever and funny ways. From talking about the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) to America's crumbling infrastructure, to the time he sent "suspiciously cheap" food to fashion CEOs selling "shockingly cheap" clothing. He's even teamed up with Bill Nye to call out climate deniers, addressed food waste and exposed the horrors of the chicken industry.
Watch what he has to say about Donald Trump on the Late Show:
Colbert, on the other hand, fears that because Trump is slumping in the polls, he might drop out.
Find out why that has Colbert worried:
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It's only the second night of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, and Colbert is already making headlines. He had Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and chairman of SolarCity, on the show last night. Tesla's Powerwall battery, which allows homes and small businesses to use and store energy generated from residential solar panels, is so popular that it has already sold out through 2016.
Colbert starts off by mentioning that he's been called the "real Tony Stark" (aka Iron Man). So Colbert asks Musk, "Are you sincerely trying to save the world?" Colbert feigns confusion, telling Musk, "You're trying to do good things and you're a billionaire." (Musk is worth an estimated $13 billion). "That seems a little bit like a superhero or super villain. You have to choose one."
Musk and Colbert segue into talking about living on Mars, which Musk believes we can one day do. "Eventually you can turn Mars into an Earth-like planet," says Musk. Colbert's obvious question is, "How would you do that?"
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After winning the Nevada Republican caucuses, Donald Trump used his victory speech to show his affection for the poorly educated among his fan base.
"We won the evangelicals,” Trump said. “We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated—I love the poorly educated.”
In response, late night host Jimmy Kimmel unveiled a totally fake, but pretty spot-on campaign ad created by Trump’s uneducated—and proud of it!—supporters.
These champions of Trump believe the U.S. needs a “leeder,” a president who will take on the “terists” and lock down the “Mexico/Merica” border.
Sure, it’s a gag, but with 20 percent of Trump backers going on record with their belief that that slavery was a good thing this country gave up on way too soon, it’s probably not so far off the mark.
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