Thank you to the federal society for hosting this debate at. Im delighted to be here for the question, should the Electoral College be abrogated . Electoral college choosing a president. In their respective states electors choose wedding for president and Vice President. Electoral college would provide Vice President Alexander Hamilton wrote in federalist 68 that the Electoral College would provide a practicable obstacle to cabal intrigue and corruption. He said that it would interpose capable men of discernment for deliberation over the selection of the president. Moreover, hamilton thought the system best designed to prevent tumult and disorder. Debates about the Electoral College once again emerged over the desirability of our constitutions method for selecting the president. So this debate is an important one about our republic. And about our constitutional form of government. It raises questions of principle. What are the values to be promoted in a democratic republic . In a feder
Following record spanish heat in september, scientists said they would gobsmacked by the scale of the jumping Global Temperatures. Now the bbc data team has found that the number of days that have breached the 1. 5 C Temperature Threshold is also a record wake up. In 2015 in paris, political leaders agreed to permanently tackle Climate Change. A key element is keeping the rising Global Temperatures under see this century. But a bbc Analysis Shows that that in the year to date, one in three days were above the limit. Permanently breaching the threshold will take decades, client Scientists Say that all these days over the level are a clear sign of things to come. The level are a clear sign of things to come. This is a pre warnin things to come. This is a pre warning for things to come. This is a pre warning for people things to come. This is a pre warning for people to warning for people to understand that if we have extreme events based on exceeding 1. 5 for a few days here and there wh
Festivals. I justha really want to say thak you to all of you for coming out today and having come out for 15 years. I also want to say thank you Madison Public Library for taking this event on when it was unsure whether someone would and for giving us this beautiful space to keep putting on the fence for the public in medicine and just in where you came from today. I also wantt to thank the madisn Public Library foundation. They do all the private fundraising. It keeps these events free and t open to the public. Weve been doing this is our fifth festival at Madison Public Library at all our events have been free. We can break even about that and we hope you do, too. I want to say a huge thank you h to them and to all the sponsors who helped put on this festival throughout the years. I would ask you now to please silence your cell phones. That goes for date as well. And probably me. Youve got to check. I really would just like to start my introduction today by saying im not a scientist
Book tv. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson spoke about relations with india at an event hosted by the center for strategic and International Studies in washington. He called for strengthening the Strategic Partnership to bolster indias military capabilities. This is just under an hour. [applause] good morning everybody. With aing to start little safety announcement. I learned this from secretary tillerson. Every Public Meetings begins with an announcement of how we will take care of you. I am responsible for that. Follow my instructions. The exits are right behind us. Stairs lead to it. Go down to the first level and we will take to lefthand turns and meet at national geographic. There will be ice cream for you when we get there. No worries. Welcome tot say richard spencer. We are glad you could join us today. It was about a year ago i was having breakfast with Rex Tillerson. He is now secretary tillerson. He announced he was going to be retiring. You were talking about how we would con
Wisconsin book festival, i wantk you for coming to see dave levitan for his book, not a scientist. This is the 15th anniversary of the wisconsin book festival. So many authors, so many attendees and so much time has gone into giving us 16 book festivals, and i just really want to say thank you to all of you for coming out today and having come out for 15 years. I also want to say thank you to Madison Public Library for taking this event on when it was unsure whether someone would and for giving us this beautiful space to keep putting on events for the public in madison and from anywhere you came from today. I also want to thank the Madison Public Library foundation. They do all of the private fundraising that keeps these events free and open to the public. This is our fifth festival here at Madison Public Library, and all of our events have been free. We care deeply about that, and we hope you do too. I want to say a huge thank you to all the sponsors. I also would ask you right now to