the person who got our attention was bill mckibben. kibben has since become one of the world's leading environmentalists. in addition to serving

with me now is a person who keeps a global focus on climate change, bill mckibben.is book brought it to the forefront. today he keeps it going with an organization he started. >> good to be with you, as always, chris. >> explain to me your theory of change here. we're sitting here at point a, the point i want to get to is essentially a global carbon regulation regime. that's what we're headed towards. >> sure. >> how do we get from here to there? >> it's impossible to get there without leadership from the u.s., the sole superpower and the place where per capita terms is still the biggest contributor. that stuff last up there in the atmosphere for a hundred years. most of the plurality of carbon in the atmosphere was made in the usa. this is one of the places we need to start. we need a serious price on carbon. we will not get that price on carbon until we've beaten the power of the fossil fuel industry. sooner or later, the world will figure out that it has to regulate carbon, that this is the most dangerous thing now on the planet, but the sooner or later is the ke

this is bill mckibben who was among those who are arrested. >> the reason we are here is because chevrons a really bad actor, ok? gethe places where they their oil, they are a bad actor. as the people in canada fighting their fracking, the people in ecuador who have had to live with their waste. when they get it here to refine it, they are a bad actor. they sent 15,000 of their neighbors to the hospital. or'shey are bad, bad act on this planet. they have 9 billion barrels of oil in their reserves, ok? if they burn most of those, then we cannot deal with climate change. >> just before the protest, the city of richmond filed a lawsuit against chevron over the fire, claiming it followed a more than a dozen similar incidents. this is longtime environmental organizer of communities for a better environment. >> we know we are the little and they are the big and powerful multinational corporation. in fact, in international criminal cartel. but given all that, what we know is we have people power. they have the money power, we have the people power, and that is what we are demonstrating today. a

bill mckibben, the founder, was among those who are rested. >> the reason we're here is because chevron is really bad actor, ok? in the places where they get their oil, they are a bad actor. as the people in canada, ecuador. when they get it here to refine it, they are a bad actor. they sent 15,000 of their neighbors to the hospital, and they are bad, bad actors on this planet. they have 9 billion barrels of oil in their reserves, ok? if they burn most of those, then we cannot deal with climate change. >> thanks to john hamilton for that video. dreamrida, the group defenders is continuing to occupy the florida state capitol were they up and amending the repeal of florida's stand your ground law for nearly three weeks area at the demonstrators celebrated a partial victory friday when florida house speaker will weatherford announced he will order hearings this fall to review the law, which impacted instructions to the jury that acquitted george zimmerman and the killing of trayvon martin. but weatherford assigned a staunch supporter stan your ground to chair the hearing stash republican s

it takes a look at climate change as made enclosuclear bet chris and bill mckibben, a leading advocatehe need to switch to solar and wind power. >> we have just passed 400 parts per million of carbon in the atmosphere. your organization is called 350.org and that 350 stands for 350 parts per million, which scientists say is a safe level of carbon in the atmosphere. so the question is, we're already past it by 50 parts per million. what do you see as the solution to bring the carbon level down to your organization's name? >> there's no solution other than stopping burning coal and gas and oil, and doing it fast. we're past the point where we're going to stop global warming. i mean we already melted the arctic, okay. so if we do everything right at this point, it will still be decades before we're back to 350 and a lot of damage will bow done in the meantime. if we don't do everything right that damage will escalate. it will be civilization scale. >> the politics of power airs this friday, tonight, at 8:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. so i'm checking out the jetta. 34 hwy mpg. check. no-charge

but that plan fell into the back burner during all the drama of his first term but as active as bill mckibben has said about the president's proposal better late than never the u.s. still has a long way to go before it catches up with countries like germany that have turned solar energy into an art that hopefully the president's example will jump start the rest of washington into tackling renewable energy. the bad the easy answer republicans got into a new poll pelican state republicans think barack obama is more responsible for the poor response to hurricane katrina remember brownie barack obama is more responsible than george w. bush seriously no joke poll which was conducted by the public policy polling center found that while twenty nine percent of louisiana republicans blame obama for brownian femurs disastrous handling of that two thousand and five hurricane only twenty eight percent blame good old double full forty five. four percent of those republicans polled were bored unquote unsure about who's more responsible what gives with louisiana republicans as this clip means nothing to you