PSA: This American Life on Climate Change (Episode: “Hot in My Backyard”)

Tune your audio devices to this week’s This American Life podcast for a pleasurable dip into the maddening debate over climate change.  

Ira thinks he sees a glimmer of progress (ie, rejection of climate change denialism) in the “national conversation” on climate change.

I’m not so sure—overall attitudes toward man-made climate change are more skeptical than they were ten years ago, while scientists agree more than ever. And the evidence provided in the podcast itself suggests that business interests have pushed Republican legislators farther toward denialism than actual Republican voters.