Showing posts with label David Letterman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label David Letterman. Show all posts

Friday, October 7, 2016

David Letterman, America's Funniest Climate Activist

Most global warming and clean energy humor is chuckle-chuckle amusing but not ha-ha funny. David Letterman is joining this season of Showtime's Years of Living Dangerously and he doesn't do mildly amusing - he does wicked funny:

 
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Friday, June 28, 2013

Tim DeChristopher and Our Upside-Down Punishment Priorities

Wall Street bankers crashed the global economy. Not a single one was put on trial, never mind sent to prison. Not one, not for a day.

Climate activist Tim DeChristopher pranked one oil and gas leasing auction as an act of civil disobedience. Despite the Interior Department subsequently canceling those leases saying they had been rushed into auction with insufficient environmental and scientific review, authorities decided to make an example of DeChristopher. He was sent to prison for 21 months and is now serving an additional three years of probation.

DeChristopher told his story to +Late Show with David Letterman this week:

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Nature Conservancy Scientist on Letterman

A surprising advocate for climate action - David Letterman. He made headlines last fall with his "We are so screwed!" rant. This week he had Dr. M.A. Sanjayan, a scientist from The Nature Conservancy (headquartered in Ballston), on to talk about global warming: