U.S. will continue to get warmer, weather will become more extreme ... - CBS News
U.S. will continue to get warmer, weather will become more extreme, climate scientist warns - CBS News
U.S. will continue to get warmer, weather will become more extreme, climate scientist warns
Michael Mann, distinguished professor and director of Penn Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media, joins "CBS Mornings" to discuss the record-breaking heat and extreme weather and why he believes it isn't too late to slow the human impacts on climate change.
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.