Comedians and climate crisis

Is there any point in taking individual actions to combat climate change when big corporations account for 20% of global carbon emissions? Stephen checks in with Mother Earth in search of some comfort and advice. I'm glad they hit the point that it's not the earth in need of saving, it's us. We've only ever known and built our modern society within the conditions enabled by the current climate. Our industrial activity is changing those conditions and we don't know what we're heading towards.

We teamed up with all the other late night shows to address climate change and the apocalypse that will follow if we continue to do nothing about it. Jimmy talks about all the shortages that could happen as a result of climate change, it becoming a partisan issue, many prominent Republicans continuing to deny there is problem, the Biden Administration being on track to approve more oil and gas leases than any year of the Trump Administration, energy company ConocoPhillips’ contract to drill oil on the tundra in Northern Alaska, misinformation about individual “carbon footprints,” and we invited some real climate scientists back to the show with a new message and warning. "When we're gone, the planet's gonna shake us off like a dog with a bad case of fleas, ladies and gentlemen." George Carlin Great to see the late night comics taking on climate change. We're only in the second inning of a very long nightmare.

Seth takes a closer look at progressives in Congress pushing forward with a transformative $3.5 trillion spending plan that would invest heavily in climate infrastructure amid historic wildfires, droughts and flooding. Seth's Bernie impersonation is hilarious. He must have really put in the hours at impersonation camp. If doing nothing could lead us to a solution, the US senate would be the perfect organization to lead mankind there.

We’re all familiar with the major effects of climate change, but a hotter Earth creates lots of smaller changes too: more female turtles, worse-tasting coffee, scary space junk and even less sex. I actually do appreciate Trevor discussing the less known effects. I remember learning about the issue of rising sand temps for sea turtles and other reptiles that also depends on temps for gender (some have the opposite issues where higher this means more male babies) back in college about ten years ago.

Did you hear the one about the 16 comedians who walked into a Creative Climate Communication course at the University of Colorado during a global pandemic? No joke- this actually happened (okay, the 16 comedians Zoomed in). Why? To generate comedy for the annual Inside the Greenhouse Stand Up for Climate Comedy production, an online show featuring the comedy of New York comedian, Chuck Nice, select pieces from 15 stand-up comedians from across the nation, winners from our international climate comedy video competition, hosted by Max Boykoff and Beth Osnes, sprinkled throughout with contributions by our students, and all edited together and ready to launch to the world on Earth Day, April 22, 2021. This is a class project to co-create climate comedy through a partnership between an undergraduate class of 45 students and 16 professional comedians from across the USA. During the Spring semester of 2021-- while night clubs across the world remain largely closed to live standup comedy—Ma...

Global Warming Isn't Scary enough to sound serious. It needs to sound much much worse to get peoples attention. Watch "Not Bad" by Bengt Washburn only at Hahaha he's like that cool quirky grandpa who always has a crazy weird yet somehow accurate story of Back-in-the-Day😂