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It's been a record-breaking summer. But extreme heat, wildfires and flooding are just a taste of the climate change future ahead of us.
We discuss with author and journalist David Wallace-Wells.
This segment aired on August 1, 2023.
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It's been a record-breaking summer. But extreme heat, wildfires and flooding are just a taste of the climate change future ahead of us.
We discuss with author and journalist David Wallace-Wells.
This segment aired on August 1, 2023.
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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.