17 Bronx students sent to India for climate change program - CBS News
17 Bronx students sent to India for climate change program - CBS New York
17 Bronx students sent to India for climate change program
Students in the Bronx are broadening their horizons while learning about climate change. A U.S. state department program sent them to India this summer. CBS New York's Tony Aiello has more on how their climate change work is making a difference.
Related Knowledge Center: Climate science
What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.