At 3pm eastern, we’re hosting a live chat in Prime with Ruy Teixeira, a Senior Fellow at both The Century Foundation and American Progress. He’ll be talking about the new Democratic majority-where did it come from? Can it be maintained? And if so, how? Start submitting your questions right now.
The World Bank has released a new report (.pdf) on climate change that is ostensibly focused on the dire consequences of a rise in average global temperatures by 4 degrees Celsius. That in itself is significant insofar as the Copenhagen Accord of 2009 agreed that it was crucial to cap the worldwide temperature increase at 2 degrees Celsius.
To be clear, no one then — and certainly no one in the three years since — thought we would be able to avoid blowing through the Copenhagen ceiling (although the World Bank report still holds out such hope). That has become seen as inevitable since no substantial or meaningful agreement has been reached on reducing carbon emissions. If you’re interested, Bill McKibben wrote about these numbers in Rolling Stone over the summer. Read More
TPM talks with the gun shop owner in Arizona who has “banned” Obama supporters from his store.
President Obama at the home of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi today — and other pics from his Asia trip.
At 4pm eastern, Mary Hughes of The 2012 Project will join us in the Prime Blog to answer your questions. The 2012 Project is a national, non-partisan campaign of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers to increase the number of women in Congress and state legislatures. A record number of women were elected this year, and we’re excited to have Mary take your questions in the Prime Blog. You can submit your questions right now.
I long for the day when asking “How old do you think the Earth is?” doesn’t trip up a prospective presidential candidate.
From TPM Reader NW …
I just read the great piece by the man from Idaho who went to Cleveland to canvass for Obama’s re-election. My husband and I were similarly blown away by the dedication to Democracy we saw in the volunteers we hosted.
At our house (my husband and I are in our 80’s by the way) we have taken in workers like this man who arrive from all over the country.
Today at TPMPrime we’re discussing this: what do you consider the most accurate, most balanced sources of information on the present conflict in Israel-Palestine and the issue in general?