On let's find common ground, we're looking at some of the most important issues facing voters as they make their choices in the 2020 election.

Today, climate change. Beyond the slogans, what are some of the deeper questions and what are some ways

to find common ground?

I'm Richard Davies and I'm Ashley Miltite. Climate change is a much more important issue for many voters now than it was in 2016.

According to a recent poll by Pew Research Center,

a record high 60% of Americans say it's a major threat

to the well-being of the United States.

Let's get a deeper understanding from journalists Owen O' Carroll and

Eva Botkin Coache of the Christian Science Monitor.

Both Eva and Owen are staff reporters and they cover science, technology and the

environment. First Eva tells us that climate change is no longer a theory.

We're living with some of the early results. You don't need to look so much at the

science anymore because you can see it pretty clearly in the impacts. I mean we're seeing the impacts that were predicted a couple

decades ago we're seeing them happen now. We're seeing those severe storms,

those heat waves and the melting of the glaciers and ice sheets since Since the mid 1990s, we've seen Arctic warming faster than anywhere else,

and that's having impacts that are that are pretty far-reaching in that area, that region is warming two times the global average.

And then of course with these rising temperatures you've got the melting permafrost,

which is releasing greenhouse gases, particularly methane.

What about the extent to which we should be alarmed about this?

Are there different opinions about that?

Well, science doesn't tell us how we ought to feel, right? Science just

tells us what is. And most of the scientists that I talked to, I think they would say

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