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May 28
2h 11m

About Climate Change and Paid Social Med...

Andrew Heaton, Jen Briney, Justin Robert Young
About this episode

The gang digs into the quiet retirement of RCP 8.5, the most extreme climate scenario suggested by scientists, after making some genuine progress towards slowing global warming. What does this say about our relationship with science media? Then they turn to recent reports over Tom Steyer's campaign allegedly paying off influencers and creators for promotion and positive press and ask whether we should have stricter guidelines over these sorts of ads.


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00:00:00 - Intro

00:23:09 - Climate Change

00:46:55 - Paid Social Media Influencers

01:06:51 - Emails

02:04:40 - Wrap-up



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