Al Roker Addresses Climate Change: 'It Is the Existential Threat to Our Survival' - The Messenger
Al Roker Addresses Climate Change: 'It Is the Existential Threat to Our Survival' - The Messenger
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Meteorologist Al Roker is speaking out about his opinions on climate change, terming it an issue that he thinks most Americans want to see addressed.
The longtime Today show star spoke to Parade ahead of his upcoming New Year's Day Rose Parade hosting duties, saying, "I think the majority of the American public and many people around the globe want this tackled. It is the existential threat to our survival. And when we do put our minds to it, we can make changes."
"Think about a couple of decades ago when there was a hole in the ozone layer, and we made massive changes," he added. "That hole is all but gone. We can do it; we’ve got the technology. It’s just, do our political leaders have the wherewithal to help usher us into this next iteration of saving our planet? It can be done but it’s going to be a change and a lot of people don’t like change."
However, "things are changing anyway, so we’d better do something about it," he concluded.
Roker also detailed to the outlet how things have changed in his field over the years. "As weather has evolved into covering climate, so has our unit. It’s one of these things where we do the day-to-day, but we also look at the trend lines. That’s become much more important in a sense."
"Our job is to then look at the bigger picture and bring some context to it," he noted.
The 69-year-old anchor will be co-hosting the 135th Rose Parade presented by Honda Monday, airing on NBC, alongside Today co-anchor Hoda Kotb.
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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.