The United Nations just released its landmark climate report , urging countries to urgently cut their greenhouse gas emissions or else face catastrophic consequences.
So what …
The United Nations just released its landmark climate report, urging countries to urgently cut their greenhouse gas emissions or else face catastrophic consequences. So what exactly should the Biden administration do? Climate scientist Allison Crimmins heads the National Climate Assessment, a government report that evaluates how the U.S. is doing on issues related to climate change. She spoke with NPR’s Noel King about her takeaways from today’s report. “Climate change isn’t something that’s happening far away to someone else in some far-off future time,” she says. “It’s really happening here and now, to us.” Crimmins says it’s both the changes and the rate of changes that are so troubling, and unprecedented.
