put across strong enough to the electorate am i right? those are conservative electorate am i right? those are conservative figures. electorate am i right? those are conservative figures. the - electorate am i right? those are i conservative figures. the estimate, the crude estimates of the cost of climate damage comes to total like one or $2 trillion a year in global gross domestic product. the point is it is costing us a far more in climate damages then it would to take the actions that are necessary preventing it from getting worse. that is precisely the point, if you look at the political debate you re having there in the united states, some of the republican right you don t believe in this science who don t believe in this science who don t believe in the costs of putting it right, they are arguing the toss over, it sounds a lot of money. but in the context of what we have just been talking about, two or $3 trillion is not a lot of money when you think of the damage that is be
female dean of harvard law school. also the first woman to serve as the top supreme court lawyer for any administration. she is not a judge is, is that also a first? there is been plenty of also justices who have not been judges at the time they were appointed or ever, one of the most famous being chief justice earl warren. there have been plenty in history and in fact it has been only a more recent trend to have the court heavily populated by former court of appeals judges as it is now. and one last, yes. any surprise here that she was president obama s pick? there was talk, of course, that she was on a short list and that she would be his pick so would there have been surprise if he hadn t chosen her? i do think that she was clearly the leading candidate from the beginning. supreme court nominations are a complicated process for any one to get through so anything could happen but she has an awful lot of pluses are. she is incredibly smart and