On the next episode of the column Mark and more show will this is really true we ve been trying to do a show about the psychological biological and cultural implications of constipation and that show kind of got stuck in the pipeline for a while but now you re going to hear it and it s not for the faint of heart but we hope you ll join us here. Today one then 8 o clock support comes from Connecticut Repertory Theater health stud museum and Middlesex Hospital mostly cloudy today highs your 70 a few showers tonight lows around 60 mostly cloudy and humid on Friday has around 80 Good morning I m coyote Wolf it s 10 o clock on point of next major funding for on point is provided by Geico offering auto insurance coverage for cars trucks or S.U.V.s and providing 247 customer service more information on auto insurance at Geico dot com or 180947 auto. From w b u r Boston and n.p.r. I m Kimberly Atkins This is on point a new study this week has a shocking new assessment of the human cost of Hur
investigating energy companies over their role in climate change one of the highest profile cases is in new york it s not about twenty thousand euros it s about billions of dollars. the findings of carol moffat and others provided the impetus. the. attorney general eric schneiderman who s currently investigating exxon and its former c.e.o. rex tillerson trump secretary of state. they have told the public for years that there were no competent models was the specific term used by an exxon executive not so long ago no competent models to project climate patterns and we know that they paid millions of dollars to support organizations that put out propaganda denying that we can predict or measure the effects of fossil fuel on our climate or even denying that climate change was
no pun intended with dicaprio. come on already. it s cartoon science. that s why they like it. it s simple and appeals to them. the complexity of the climate system even first world climates, if you look at the 20th century in north america versus the century in western europes that i have different climate patterns. the french scientists point to that. they understand the complexity of these things. but guys like leo, patricia arquette that wants all seven billion people to bring a class action against donald trump for planetary negligence, these people are invested in a cartoon idea of science that thinks that if you get all the clever people around a table, they can set the global thermostat for the year
in paris as we ll see in the next couple of hours. this is the average temperature across the united states. we ve had the warmest fall on record. september to november. and the warm weather will continue into this weekend. is it global climate change? i ll let you be the the purveyor of that information. but it sure looks like it has the climate fingerprint written all over it. back to you. before you go, you were talking about the 1.5 difference. what difference does this really make on the climate? it matters so much in how much moisture we have available in the atmosphere. also just how much our seas will continue to rise has ramifications on all kinds of climate patterns. thank you very much. the afghan interior ministry says a siege in the capital that started friday is over. police special forces have killed all the attackers.
the state of california is where new york was after superstorm sandy, or texas after the 2011 wildfires. they re not just talking about the effects of changing climate patterns, they are living them. i spoke with california s lieutenant governor, gavin newsom. unquestionably, two things happened yesterday. we extended the existing emergency provisions for another 270 days. and we added a few additional things to the extent those critics i think are right and accurate by denying people the ability to have water when they sit down at a restaurant. automatically they have to ask, and requiring now hoteliers to encourage guests staying multiple nights to ask for whether or not they want their towels washed and their linens washed. it s relatively small ball. we can sit here and pray for more rain, that s an immediate solution. but we re not able to legislate it. that s not necessarily going to work. we can talk about conservation, which we must in efficiency, we must. but i think we have