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what up sunshine I'm Coy wire it's March
6 and it's hashy word Wednesday so
listen up to see if your word was
selected to broaden our vocabulary and
make it into Today's Show we start with
news about pollution on and around our
planet according to a new report by the
International Energy agency Global
pollution from energy source like coal
oil and natural gas hit record high
levels last year with emissions Rising
more than 1% across the world one factor
contributing to this increase was
extreme droughts that restricted Hydro
power production in some countries which
in turn increased Reliance on fossil
fuels another component was a surge in
energy demand in China as the second
largest country in the world by
population ended its covid-19 lockdowns
last year but it's not all bad bad news
according to the report US expansion of
clean energy sources cut emissions in
the country by a little more than 4%
while European Union's energy emissions
fell by almost 9% and China made massive
gains in its solar and wind power use as
well but scientists say pollution levels
need to be cut further to help hold
companies accountable for any egregious
pollution levels and to quantify their
contribution to global warming a
us-based nonprofit environmental defense
fund launched a new satellite that
locates and measures methane leaks CNN's
Bill Weir has more three two one
ignition and lift off Falcon 9 paid for
by the likes of billionaire Jeff Bezos
and other donors the nonprofit
environmental defense fund just launched
a new kind of eye in the
skyful range methane sat is designed to
circle the Earth every 95 5 minutes or
so and with Cutting Edge detail spot
plumes and leaks of Planet cooking
pollution long associated with the
production of natural gas if carbon
dioxide is a blanket of average
thickness overheating the Earth for
centuries methane is like a blanket 7
feet thick with over 80 times the heat
trapping power of CO2 for about two
decades after its release sometimes it
leaks from old equipment or orphan Wells
and sometimes when there's no one to buy
it companies just burn it in a practice
known as flaring what we found here in
the peran Basin is that operators are
wasting enough gas to heat about 2
million homes a year in 2021 EDF took us
up over the oil and gas fields of Texas
to sniff out methane leakers with a
specially equipped
airplane so this is carbon dioxide down
here gas and this is my but now they can
fly over every oil and gas Basin in the
world where 80% of Global supplies are
fracked and pumped we can basically
create a movie of what's going on with
respect to methane emissions before we
could just take snapshots when we had a
plane in the air and we can get
permission to fly this is a whole new
game it really creates um an enormous
Leap Forward in our ability to really
understand greenhouse gas emissions
while other satellites can spot methane
what they find is often kept private but
EDF says that in about 18 months their
data will be open and free on Google
Earth engine for anyone to see you just
have a real clarity now a Clarity we've
never had before and I think people
realize you don't have to accept um what
somebody says whether that's a
government or a company you can actually
directly look at it see what it is and
that is completely different than
anything we've ever had for greenhouse
gases what I referred to is we're going
to have radical transparency and what
has been the response from Big Oil and
Gas companies that you're doing this
well I think many of the companies see
this as a real opportunity because they
they really do believe and and I suspect
they're right that they're doing a good
job but many of them aren't it gives
countries and companies the tools to
select who they buy gas from and where
that gas comes from so the first time
they'll have the ability to make really
informed decisions and those informed
decisions will have an enormous positive
impact on the climate pop quiz is Hot
Shot which Sesame Street character was
not in the original cast of the Show's
first episode Cookie Monster Kermit be
frog Grover or Big
Bird if you said Grover rise up this
character appeared later in season one
as a dark green furry monster but he was
redesigned with blue fur and given his
current voice and personality in the
second season our next story we're going
to focus on the economy as the White
House has announced a set of measures
this week to fight what they are calling
corporate ripoffs these efforts are
aimed at cracking down on unfair and
illegal pricing across numerous
Industries Federal Regulators are also
announcing rules to eliminate excessive
credit card late fees and junk fees
these are rules that the financial
industry opposes arguing they are
prioritizing short-term political gain
over long-term benefits of consumers but
the economy is on many people's minds
and these latest efforts come as more
and more people are frustrated by
shrinkflation which is when companies
decrease the quantity of a product you
get say the number of cookies you'd
usually get in a box while still keeping
prices the same it's become so prevalent
that even Sesame Street's Cookie Monster
posted about it complaining about how
egregious the business practice has
become so why is shrinkflation
resonating in public discourse CNN's
Vanessa yurich and Sarah seider serve up
some potential answers to Cookie
Monsters
frustrations do not mess with Cookie
Monsters cookies but a lot of Americans
agree he's talking about something
called shrinkflation and this is what we
see when corporations shrink the product
size to avoid raising prices further
research has indicated that consumers
are actually more okay with smaller
products than higher prices but
essentially if you look at cookie prices
over the past two years or so for about
a pound of cookies you see that the
price started about 370 for a pound it's
all the way up to 502 a pound and in the
last year according to a study by uh
Senator Bob Casey in just the last year
we've seen cookie uh products shrink by
6% and so you have everyone now jumping
on this conversation with Cookie Monster
who said me hate shrinkflation me
cookies are getting smaller you have
President Biden who actually uh the
White House retweeting about this
chiming in saying C is for consumers
getting ripped off you have everyone
from sherid Brown from Ohio saying that
his constituents are absolutely sick of
shrinkflation and you have Elizabeth
Warren and you have Bob Casey saying
that they actually have a bill for this
they want the FTC to crack down on
corporations that are shrinking their
products while keeping prices the same
if not higher surprising fact that paper
goods has actually seen the biggest
shrinkflation in the last few years and
you also have the worry about something
called greed flation this is essentially
when corporations may see
prices softening on some of their
products but still keep the product
smaller and that is what we do not want
to see we want to see corporations
keeping up with changing prices that's
probably a tweet uh best left for Oscar
the Grouch uh instead of Cookie Monster
he was going to weigh in he might weigh
in soon but you clearly have even though
he's a Sesame Street character Cookie
Monster really tapping into something
that many Americans are seeing and
feeling right
now
for today's story getting a 10 out of 10
a new take on an age-old question why
did the chicken cross the road this time
it's a goat actually a lot of them our
Jeremy Roth shows us the gallivanting
barn animals that went on an egregious
Journey here's some crazy caught on cam
video captured in Texas after a herd of
goats got loose and then got moving go
goats go you know I feel like this story
deserves the old hom meter don't you I
know what you're thinking you've goat to
be kidding me okay here we go
after the herd which was hired to clear
weeds went on the lamb Arlington Police
responded and weren't sheepish instead
taking the bull by the horns and
rounding up the roving silly blies
without further incident they didn't
even have to use their battering ram you
heard it here first 5 six seven seven
puns not bad that counts to by the way
you're a bad man Jeremy Roth that was
absolutely punderful hey Mrs Taylor's
class at a send leadership Academy in
Sanford North Carolina you are today's
#y word Wednesday winner for egregious
an adjective meaning outstandingly bad
shocking or flagrant our cat Jennings
loves this word so much she put it into
the show three times today well done all
right we are showing some love today
Keen Middle School in Kean New Hampshire
shout out to the Cardinals go on and
dust your feathers off you're looking so
fresh and so Keen Keen and this shout
out goes to another school with lots to
flaun Rutland high school and Rutland
Vermont rise up see you tomorrow loveely
people I'm KY wire and we are CNN
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