d.c. conventional wisdom. the summer beginning with democrats almost fatalistic about losing the house. here are today s headlines. a shift in trends showing democrats daring to dream, the times reported on the rebound. the post reporting democrats showing momentum in these recent special elections, which is hard data. the d.c. website axios reports on the democrats now stunning turnaround. now, first, this is classic washington a narrative zigs and zags. everything gets exaggerated. there s a lot of self-interested reasons that people need to make things so histrionic. i can also tell you tonight, the reason this is the top story here where we try not to be histrionic is because there is hard data showing democrats improving. and at this point they might start asking themselves, well, how did we get here? they may ask themselves, where does that midterm highway go? same as it ever was. that s of course how the talking heads and david byrne memorably put it. the numbers
power grid can barely handle it. over in arizona, a blue state, you have that grim record broken for heat related deaths. congress warned all the way back in 88 there was a 99% certainty the warming trend was caused by carbon die i don t care side. we new this. we re a long ways from 1980s projections about global warming and carbon. it s what green leaders have warned about, that the luxury of data about melting icecaps would soon give way to a rolling climate crisis. now we turn to something important, the pioneering environmentalist, the leader of 350.org, the author of the flag, the cross, and the station wagon , a memoir about what the hell happened to america among other things. i hear you, man [ laughter ] yeah, well, it s been a hell of a 50 years. what is important for people to understand about the prospect for change now as you look at those kind of heat headlines? well, the bad news is we
i was simply conveying had been wrong. but they weren t wrong. reporter: the 2006 oscar-winning film an inconvenient truth featuring al gore painted a disturbing portrait of the future, super storms, melting icecaps, rising temperatures is this crisis unfolding more quickly than you would have anticipated? this is unfolding faster than the scientists warned us, and now they re telling us we ve got to prepare for much worse unless we take action quickly. on this broadcast, only yesterday we looked at the situation in guatemala. drought is forcing farmers who can no longer raise their crops to consider migrating to the united states. how is the geopolitical map being changed by climate change one expert commission predicted that if we don t change course, there would be up to one billion climate
remember i endorsed arnold which was my big mistake, but in the twinning it looked like he was going to be a good governor, but then he gave into this global warming stuff. i ll never forget it. he came to see the california delegation, and i m sitting there and arnold s walking by me and i said, arnold, arnold, did you hear, did you hear about the melting icecaps? and the retreating icecaps? why, dana, yes, i know an the icecaps all right. i m very surprised that you know about the icecaps melting and retrieving. and i said, i said, arnold, i m talking about the icecaps on mars. oh. bam. he s gone. that was republican congressman dana rohrbacker of california in a speech that
remember i endorsed arnold which was my big mistake, but in the twinning it looked like he was going to be a good governor, but then he gave into this global warming stuff. i ll never forget it. he came to see the california delegation, and i m sitting there and arnold s walking by me and i said, arnold, arnold, did you hear, did you hear about the melting icecaps? and the retreating icecaps? why, dana, yes, i know an the icecaps all right. i m very surprised that you know about the icecaps melting and retrieving. and i said, i said, arnold, i m talking about the icecaps on mars. oh. bam. he s gone. that was republican congressman dana rohrbacker of