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Of experts to explore this further. In london, a geopolitical analyst and author. He serves as the cofounder of economic partners. And in beirut today but actually based in london at the school of economics. An expert on terrorism and the coauthor of isis the state of terr terror. And peter bergen joins us from washington. He is a Vice President at new america. Peter, let me ask you, does this strike you as terrorists adapting yet again . Because what is interesting about this to me is its in ma...

The fate of the Build Back Better legislation, including the future of U.S. participation in attempts to limit the impact of the climate crisis, may depend on one of the weirdest phenomena of the modern world.

Scientists blame July’s deadly floods on climate change, as Germany pledges action – but the country remains Europe’s biggest emitter of CO2 

In asia in big ways. climate change is actually an interesting example of the national strategy, because at the same time, yeah, china has a lot of dirty coal, its also made clean tech an important sector and quite a protected sector. but i think you are going to see this kind of regionalism that richard was talking about. i think asia is kind of moving forward in the most strategically smart way with that. europe, its interesting, post brexit you would think it would be a moment for germany to ...

They consume energy, they still use a lot of dirty coal. they have a tremendous amount of factory consumption. theyre at a different stage in their development where theyre very energy-intensive. a lot of dirty fuels being used there still. >> comparatively, its low here, $55 a gallon. but we look at this. what was that, 2009? >> $148 in 2008 and the financial crisis, global markets fell off the cliff. demand goes down and thats why you see the plummet. >> not quite to that level? >> no. i think...

Subsidize them. theres a huge amount of hubris and arrogance in that. why isnt there some kid working on cold fusion? why do you know its wind and why will you allocate so much of our money to that. >> i think what hes saying is that the department of energy which has funded so much of the critical breakthrough technologies when it comes to energy wont play venture capital firm trying to pick companies and invest in them. it will give grants to universities, university of chicago, you know, pick...

He sees mining coal as a commodity game. its just get the stuff out of the ground as cheaply and quickly as possible. that has to change. we need to think about coal in a different way. >> factor in the lives and safety of the people doing this work in figuring out the cost of it. jeff god dell, rolling stone contributor, author of "dirty coal." thanks for joining us. appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. oklahomas republican senator tom coburn is not only proud to have blocked the extension...

That is an explosion beyond proportion. >> time to turn to jack goodell, the author of "dirty coal" and "how to cool the planet." thank you for your time. >> thanks for having me. >> paying the fines imposed for these violations or paying to improve conditions to keep the mines safe and miners safe, which is cheaper at this point for a company like massey? >> well, that is sort of a no-brainer. it is much cheaper for them to take the fines. since 1995 they have had $2 million in fines for safety...