Carolinas are being swamped by these heavy rains and high winds from Hurricane Florence.

The best scientists in the world are all telling us that our activities are changing the climate.

I don't think it's a hoax. I think there's probably a difference, but I don't know that it's man-made.

Experts say that we have until 2030 to avoid catastrophe. Hello again, I'm Armin Olney,

and this is a to-the-point climate change update. Amazon, the vastly rich tech industry leader,

claims it's got the message on climate change. It's announced shipment zero to make half

its shipments carbon zero by 2030 and all of them by 2050.

Now, Amazon does a lot of shipping, and that might sound impressive, but it's not enough for thousands of

Amazon's own employees, at least 6,000, including at least one vice president, Tim Bray.

They have signed their names to a petition calling for much more action on climate change,

including steps that might mean cutting back on a growth area for Amazon.

That's the oil and gas industry.

Brian Merchant is tech reporter for Gizmodo.

Brian, thanks for joining us.

Thanks for having me, Warren.

Amazon is historically somewhat punitive of employees that get out of the line.

Are these people taking a risk to sign their names to a petition?

They absolutely are, yeah.

This is kind of an unprecedented action for that reason.

The tech industry at large, Silicon Valley, in Seattle, does not see a lot of this sort of public protest against the companies and questions own policies.

So when 6,000 employees, and these are mostly corporate-level employees who have nice jobs and presumably a lot to lose, put their names publicly on an open letter calling specifically on Jeff Bezos and the board of directors to address a company policy.

It's a big deal.

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