KPFA - Letters and Politics
Hosted by Mitch Jeserich · KPFA
4.8from 270 ratings
- 1,185
- Episodes
- 317
- Transcribed
- 270
- Ratings
- 2019
- First episode
- 406K
- YouTube views
About KPFA - Letters and Politics
Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
- Publisher
- KPFA
- Category
- news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 27 Feb 2019
- Latest episode
- 22 Oct 2025
Latest episodes
317 of 1,185 episodes have a transcript.
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Letters and Politics – October 22, 2025
Published 22 Oct 2025 · Transcript excerpt
[…] This is well in excess of the 350 parts per million that climate campaigners were targeting 15 years ago. What does I think it's 427 parts per million now? Where does that leave us in terms of what we expect the impact to be? Yeah, I mean, as you say, this is the key trapping gas that keeps our planet at a nice comfortable temperature normally, but since we've had human emissions primarily from the burning of coal oil and natural gas over the last 100 years, we have more of the sea trapping gas, and that's causing the planet to warm. As you mentioned, that WHO report indicated that we saw a jump in that increase every year, the amount of that gas and the atmosphere has been rising, but 2023 -2024 showed a jump in that. […]
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- Edward J Watts
- Scot Danforth
- Ilan Pappe
- Deborah G Plant
- John Nichols
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- YouTube views
- 405,752
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 269 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 1 ratings
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- Quality
- 97
- Social presence
- 94
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 96
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