Speaker, he is a certified instructor. When you ask those questions, make sure they have a question mark at the end of them. , please help me welcome him. [applause] good evening. I am thrilled to be here and happy you could join me. I will talk about my current research, a Global Environmental history of the First World War. I am interested in Energy Geopolitics that link the battle lines on the home fronts with agricultural and industry in ways that fundamentally shaped the 20th century. So i will talk about the main battlefield many of us are familiar with, then hop, skip, and jump around the globe to point out areas that had an incredibly profound Environmental Impact. , few human endeavors have altered the Natural World as and as agriculture industry warfare. Together inse came ways that were incredibly destructive. War, theyne mentions think battlefields, and soldiers did change environment on every battlefront. Military planners took the environment into account, considering cli
Stories one o one east on aljazeera. A dire warning about the state of our planet our oceans a hotter than theyve ever been and that spells trouble for us all with more floods droughts and fears of storms as well as a greater loss of marine life the alarm bells are ringing in the wild the biggest polluters listening this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program dennis that were becoming quite used to getting bad news on Climate Change the latest warning our oceans a warming and that will bring fast sea temperatures last year with the highest on record have been going up every year for the past decade the sea absorbs small the 90 percent of the woman gases that come from burning fossil fuels Scientists Say the extra heat produced is equal to every one of us running a 100 microwave ovens all day will missys need more intense storms droughts floods and wildfires like those burning in australia right down. Well despite all of these alarms about the Climate Crisis were releasing mo
A dire warning about the state of our planet our oceans a hotter than theyve ever been and that spells trouble for us all with more floods droughts and fears of storms as well as a greater loss of marine life the alarm bells are ringing in the wild the biggest polluters listening this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program dennis that were becoming quite used to getting bad news on Climate Change the latest warning our oceans a warming and there will be in fast sea temperatures last year with the highest on record have been going up every year for the past decade the sea absorbs small the 90 percent of the warming gases that come from burning fossil fuels Scientists Say the extra heat produced is equal to every one of us running 100 microwave ovens all day will missys need more intense storms droughts floods and wildfires like those burning in australia right down. Well despite all of these alarms about the Climate Crisis were releasing more Greenhouse Gases than ever the un
Partsinevelos, Jonathan Hoenig and liz peek. After an attack on saudi oil facilities, will President Trump be able to drum up support for action against iran . What do you think, liz . I think it is very difficult, the european allies in particular want to preserve the so called jcpoa, the nuclear deal with iran. They have their own selfinterests and mercantile interests at heart. They want to do deals with iran. The minute the deal was concluded they were in iran negotiating all kinds of pretty large scale export projects and stuff like that. They want that to continue. There was a little bit of a breakthrough today when boris johnson, obviously the new head of the u. K. , said he was interested in possibly doing a deal, and irans foreign minister also talked about how maybe we could do a new deal with perpetuity of inspections and restraint on building a Nuclear Weapon in exchange for perpetuating the lifting of sanctions. So theres movement, but its a pretty tough sell. Thats the mo
Benefits for legal immigrants. That, immigration policy and how the everify everify system is being used in the u. S. Host good morning. It is thursday, august 15, 2019. We begin the washington journal focusing on the issues facing Rural Americans after spending Yesterdays Program talking to City Residents, it is Rural Americas turn. Give us a call and let us know what your top issue is and how it is being handled by state and local leaders where you are. Eastern and central time zones call in at 2027488000. Mountain and pacific time zones, call in at 2027488001. On twitter it is cspanwj. On facebook it is facebook. Com cspan. A very good thursday morning to you. Rural residents only, you can start calling in now to give you a sense of the universe of callers, it is about 60 Million People, that is how Many Americans live in Rural Communities. Here is the latest information about them. 64 of that population lives east of the mississippi river. 10 of the total population in the west liv