Democracy Now! — Friday, Dec. 11, 2015

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Democracy Now! broadcasts live from inside COP 21, the U.N. Climate Change Conference, and from outside in the streets and activist centers in Paris, France. We are honored to offer this broadcast as part of our affiliation with the Pacifica Network.  Satellite image of ship tracks, clouds created by the exhaust of ship smokestacks. Image: NASA, public domain.

Today’s edition of Democracy Now! covers the extension of the COP21 climate summit in Paris. The draft agreement has been described as a “disappointment” by activists. We also hear more about the cover-up by Exxon of their own climate findings since the 1970s. British climate expert Nicholas Stern is interviewed on the Republican presidential candidates’ denial of anthropogenic global warming.

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NASA has been documenting the increased melting of the Greenland ice sheet. Image: NASA/Goddard/Maria-Jose Vinas / Creative Commons

Today’s edition of Democracy Now! covers the extension of the COP21 climate summit in Paris. The draft agreement has been described as a “disappointment” by activists. We also hear more about the cover-up by Exxon of their own climate findings since the 1970s. British climate expert Nicholas Stern is interviewed on the Republican presidential candidates’ denial of anthropogenic global warming.

We are honored to offer this broadcast as part of our affiliation with the Pacifica Network.

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