At the end of this month, representatives from governments around the world will meet

to talk about a global response to the climate crisis.

You're going to hear this phrase a lot, or this name a lot, COP26.

That's the shorthand for this conference that will officially begin on Halloween.

We will hear a lot about this in the weeks to come.

So let's get a preview and let's take a look at the state of climate reporting.

Now one of the most important stories in the world, affecting the world, is being covered

by global media.

And what could be done to improve the public's understanding of the issues?

Those are a couple of the questions for this week's Reliable Sources podcast.

So let's cue the music.

I'm Brian Stelter and this weekly podcast edition of Reliable Sources is our chance to go more

in depth, talking with media leaders and newsmakers about how the news gets made.

But what the real story behind the story is.

My guest this week is Mark Linus, an environmentalist and visiting fellow at the Cornell Alliance for Science.

He's the author of numerous books, including our final warning, six degrees of climate emergency.

Mark is the lead author of a new paper titled Greater the 99% Consentist on Human Caused Climate Change

in the peer-reviewed scientific literature.

And so that's where I want to start out.

Mark, thanks for coming on the podcast.

Thanks for hosting me, Brian.

I feel like everybody has heard the following figure that I'm going to bring up here.

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