Now a discussion on Global Warming with an author who has spent the past 20 years observing the lives of residents in greenland. This is just over an hour. If you have been following Gretel Ehrlichs writing over the years you know her perhaps from her stunning collection of essays, the solace of open spaces, about the american west, or her astonishing memoir of being struck by lightning, match to the heart. Among various awards and honors, ehrlich won the inaugural 2010 penn thorough, literary excellence in nature writing. Her journeys many places around the world are physical and philosophical. Her recent book, facing the wave, chronicles of japan a country which she has the deep relationship in the aftermath of 2011 earthquake and tsunami and meltdowns at the Fukushima Nuclear power plant. She is here to talk about green land, about Climate Change and about rotten ice. Noted today on npr, if you think today is hot, youre right. If you think this year is hot, youre right. Latest tempe
Theres the live shot, looking at spring mountain. Nobody on the slopes this morning, but this is a perfect day day to enjoy it if youre a skier. Temperatures are winged winding up toward single digit territory. Morning lows in the record low in allentown warning minus 2. You bottomed all the at 2 above. Smyrna, 8. Philadelphia, bottoming out at 8 degrees. The record was 2 set back in 1979. We fell short of record territory, but cold enough, 6 degrees in reading, 4 in allentown. Minus 9 in the poconos. 6 in trenton. 13 in millville. You factor in the winds it feels like 12 below in allentown and reading. 31 below in the poconos. Minus 2 in millville. The forecast for today, a nice looking day, lots of sunshine, hardly a cloud in the sky, just frigid. 10 degrees right now. 12 by 11 00 a. M. 16 by 1 00 p. M. 3 00 p. M. , 18. Same number for 5 00 p. M. Topping out at 19 or 20 degrees. We get into tomorrow you can see how the snow is going to be impacting the weather. Once we get past the m
Expected for what is the first day of school for many of you it is going to be a hot and humid one and you will need the shades if youre driving the school bus or the car or anything else. 74 degrees in philadelphia right now. 68 in wilmington, 70 in trenton, 66 degrees in allentown. Not quite as warm up in the lehigh valley. We also have that cool 66 in require millville. 74 degrees down the shore. Cape may in case you are extending the holiday weekend. 67 degrees in philadelphia. That is your dewpoint. So, its still rather humid in and around the i95 corridor and we have some 70s in some spots, too. Oppressive humidity the farther south you go. Not as bad up in allentown with that 62degree reading but the humidity is going to be part of the package. Warm and humid on the bus stop this morning. Mainly clear, 70 degrees by 6 oclock, 73 by 8 oclock and as we roll through the day its going to be a hot one today. 73 degrees by 8 oclock. By noon, 89. And by 3 oclock, 93 degrees with a high
Booktv susan butler from 1997. Ms. Butler talked about her, east to the dawn the life of Amelia Earhart. The book examines her life and times and her marriage to publisher George Putnam who promoted his wifes adventures and feeds. Ms. Butlers book coincided with 100th anniversary of Amelia Earharts birth in and the 60th anniversary of her disappearance. This is about an hour. Cspan susan butler, author of east to dawn the life of Amelia Earhart, where did you get the title east to dawn . Guest oh, the title east to the dawn was my hactually my husbands contribution to the book. I had a very trendy title, Amelia Earhart, an extraordinary woman, and we decided it had to be something really much more interesting, and he came up with east to the dawn, which i thought was brilliant. Cspan whats it mean . Guest well, it means that her major flights were from west to east, and she was on her solo flight across the atlantic flying into the dawn. She was on her first flight, where she was just
Less than 60 . And 60 to 90 . And that 90 and overt. Whether you cured by percentage weight or the annex of racial and ethnic fragmentation, weve got to middle segment that that is 50 , whose racial and ethnic identities are activated by racial context as well. So its not just in the south. Theyre sort of a continue on from the Southern States to the central midwestern states, like ohio, going to upper midwestern states like minnesota where it comes from, where my cousin, mary lu, vote solid democratic. Reese is not an issue at the click of a debt in vermont and maine. It is somewhat of an issue in ohio, central midwestern states and the further south you go, the more it becomes an issue both in the southwest and southeast. Thank you. I want to ask a question primarily for David Campbell and colleagues about, i think you were saying the two dimensional alignment that michael talked about was declining over time and attributing it to party queuing and opinion formation. You can see anot