different places. these hot spots that are at or very near 2 c, rhode island s at it, new jersey is going to be there soon if trends continue. they are a sign of the future we can already see now. they are ahead of the average, but the average is increasing. so other places are going to be like them unless the whole trajectory of the planet changes. and right now the policies on the table don t nearly add up to that. all right, chris mooney in washington, d.c. for us. thank you very much. and coming up, is barack obama tired because he s been running through donald trump s mind all week? one more thing is next. customizd my car insurance, so i only pay for what i need. and this is me now! any physical changes to this man s appearance are purely coincidental. only pay for what you need. liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty.
the threshold to avoid a, quote, host of catastrophic changes. they were aiming not to reach that threshold for another 80 years. but we are already seeing those catastrophic changes right here at home. joining me now one of the journalists behind this report washington post environment and energy reporter chris moony. chris, great to have you with us and thanks for putting all this together. this is a startling report. and i know that your team found that 71 american counties have already hit the 2 degrees celsius mark. their average temperatures have gone up 3.6 degrees farenheit. you call them, quote, isolated 2-degree celsius clusters from high-altitude deserts in oregon to stretches of the rocky mountains to the northeastern shore of lake michigan. explain to us what you meant by why they are scattered and is it surprising that these places have already crossed that threshold? these are the fast parts of the united states. it is a little surprising to find so many.
he certainly knows how to oppose it and he also seems to be pretty steeped in environmental law and constitutional law. his outlook is basically from the perspective of states saying that the epa has been oppressive. it has been trying to tell us what to do and we know how to regulate our own environment in the state of oklahoma, which is his state. we support clean air, clean water. we don t like epa telling us how to do it. when he gets to the point of questioning about whether climate change is real and saying there s debate over it, that s where you get into a real fight i think with democrats and with the scientific community. chris moony is an environment and energy reporter at the washington post. nice to have you with us. thanks so much. good to talk to you. coming up, manhunt over. just this afternoon the man wanted in this deadly standoff in georgia is now dead after exchanging gunfire with officers from the home that he was hiding in. we re going to go out there li
joining me is chris moony. thanks for being with us. good to be with you. what does the pruitt nomination say about the future of the epa? it s a very controversial nomination. democrats have signaled that they want to fight it, and what it suggests is that this agency is going to really reverse itself greatly. it s been under the obama administration it s been really moving on many environmental priorities, including climate change, most of all, and in pruitt you have somebody who has been suing it over those priorities and who has called into question the science of climate change so i think it s a real big turn. let me specifically quote him. he s made some controversial statements about climate change. this is a piece he wrote for the national review earlier this year. he said, quote, scientists continue to disagree with the degree and extent of global warming and its connection the actions of machine kind. th that debate should be encouraged. it should not be silenced with
frontrunners and in phoenix, arizona, democrats, bernie sanders and martin o malley will be attending a progressive group s annual conference. we are covering both live events right now. chris moony is in phoenix and mark press sonton is in ames iowa. mark let me begin with you. donald trump has been dominating the news and the polls. the format will allow for some other voices to be heard. explain. you know donald trump comes up from arkansas where he had some very harsh things to say about others running, including jeb bush. he will be taking questions from a moderator but unscripted questions out of the audience. this audience are social conservatives. they are the engine that fuels the republican side of the iowa caucuses. very important folks. about 2000 of them here today. if donald trump is really serious about trying to run for president, he needs to do well here in iowa fred.