Welcome to inside story. 2014 it was warmest year ever measured. Granted, thats not thousands of years, but the readings we have line up well with the worldwide migration of the industrial revolution. Through the decades of more and more intense use of fossil fuels by people in every corner of the globe. All this month on al jazeera america, well be producing programs and news reports entitled fragile planet. Tonight we are taking an inside look at the Politics Around Climate Change. A lot of Scientists Say theyre convinced by the gathering trends backed up by the data. A lot of politicians say they are not. But in the United States, the biggest economy and the biggest burner of fossil fuels, a lot of science is paid for by politicians. They sit in state legislatures, congress, university boards, and approve this funding for basic science at the universities. By holding the purse strings, they have the power to encourage research they like and discourage research that may lead to uncom
Story. [ ] inside story, im ray suarez. Over the past year or so its been proved by the state, they have watched the curtain open on condemned prisoners, strapped to a gurney and lethal chemicals introduced to the bloodstream. Some prisoners writhe, gasping for breath thrashing against the gurneys restraints. The execution taking a long time. Several cases headed to the supreme court, proving tested methods of lethal injection violate the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment. One by one pharmaceutical calls closed the door to government buyers saying they dont want their products used to kill prisoners. American pharmacists are speaking up, not willing to allow compounds produced as medicines to be used to cause death. Complicated times for the penalty in the states, even though death is supported by a large number of states and majority of medicines. Its harder to carry out. We have a member of the American Pharmacist association, dr Leonard Edloe who helped develop the new pol
Welcome to inside story. 2014 it was warmest year ever measured. Granted, thats not thousands of years, but the readings we have line up well with the worldwide migration of the industrial revolution. Through the decades of more and more intense use of fossil fuels by people in every corner of the globe. All this month on al Jazeera America, well be producing programs and news reports entitled fragile planet. Tonight we are taking an inside look at the Politics Around Climate Change. A lot of Scientists Say theyre convinced by the gathering trends backed up by the data. A lot of politicians say they are not. But in the United States, the biggest economy and the biggest burner of fossil fuels, a lot of science is paid for by politicians. They sit in state legislatures, congress, university boards, and approve this funding for basic science at the universities. By holding the purse strings, they have the power to encourage research they like and discourage research that may lead to uncom
Hinton will join us from alabama along with his attorney Bryan Stevenson of the equal Justice Initiative. Then we go to louisiana to speak with a prosecutor who is apologizing for making a mistake that put another innocent man on death row for 30 years. [indiscernible] that i didnt follow up, that i should have done more, that i had an obligation to do more. Amy while when ford was released from prison in 2014 the state of louisiana is refusing to offer compensation for wrongfully jailing him for 30 years. He got the news and hospice where he is dying of cancer. We will speak with the prosecutor marty stroud. And we will look at the American Pharmacist associations new policy urging members not to supply drugs used in lethal injections. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Kenya has launched strikes inside somalia following last weeks massacre by the militant group alshabab. 148 people, mostly students, we
Welcome to inside story. 2014 it was warmest year ever measured. Granted, thats not thousands of years, but the readings we have line up well with the worldwide migration of the industrial revolution. Through the decades of more and more intense use of fossil fuels by people in every corner of the globe. All this month on al jazeera america, well be producing programs and news reports entitled fragile planet. Tonight we are taking an inside look at the Politics Around Climate Change. A lot of Scientists Say theyre convinced by the gathering trends backed up by the data. A lot of politicians say they are not. But in the United States, the biggest economy and the biggest burner of fossil fuels, a lot of science is paid for by politicians. They sit in state legislatures, congress, university boards, and approve this funding for basic science at the universities. By holding the purse strings, they have the power to encourage research they like and discourage research that may lead to uncom