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Jan 2025
26m 32s

TDS Time Machine | The War on Climate Ch...

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Taking a look back at The Daily Show's coverage of climate change over the years. 

Jon Stewart talks climate change denialism in the U.S. Congress. Jordan Klepper investigates Trump's war on climate science. Roy Wood Jr. asks, what's wrong with our brains that we can't understand the climate threat? Trevor Noah and Ronny Chieng insist that climate change actually is real. 

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