The Climate Minute - With a soundtrack...

Ted and Rob are back at the Pink and Orange Coffeehouse, with the accompanying soundtrack.  (The nice young gents manning the counter had no idea how to turn down the radio, so you get to hear some Katy Perry with your climate talk....)  This week Rob and Ted discuss the latest trends in climate change belief among the general public, the Patrick Administration's latest climate resiliency plans, and do a mea culpa in response to listener mail... Now the links, For more information about new funding for resiliency funding in Massachusetts, check out this story. National Journal's story about the lack of climate scientists on Sunday morning talk shows is here, and you can read about the latest public opinion polling on climate change from NBC -- note their slightly misleading title. Madeline Albright and Carol Browner, former head of the EPA, will be talking about the politics of climate change at the Albridgt Institute at Wellesley College on January 22nd from 4 to 5:30.  For more information, check out the Institute's website. Finally, the latest in the continuing saga of the Falmouth wind turbines is the ZBA's actions to try and shut down the turbines, forcing the town to take them to court.  You can read a bit about that here. You can subscribe to our iTunes feed and get our podcasts automatically here. Feel free to give us your thoughts on our Facebook page, or through old-fashioned email. You can even follow us on twitter @MassClimate , so there are lots of ways for you to listen and participate in the dialog. When you are on the website, please contribute to MCAN. Your generous donations help us continue to bring climate news and views to you through our podcast and blogs, but also help support the Annual MCAN conference (this year on March 2nd, at Northeastern University), and our local climate action. So we will close the way we always close, by saying that because we recognize the necessity of personal accountability for our actions- specifically to pay for the full cost of carbon pollution at the time we create it, because we accept responsibility for building a durable future and because we believe it is our patriotic duty as citizens to speak out, we must insist that the US put a price on carbon.