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Office Hours with Georgia Howe

COP26 - Is Climate Change Solved?

Office Hours with Georgia Howe

The Daily Wire

Politics, News

4.8544 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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As the global climate change summit, COP26, comes to a close, we break down the summit's goals, and the science behind them, with a climate change expert.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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You're about to listen to Office Hours with me, Georgia Howe.

0:08.0

This is a weekly companion series to Prager You's popular five-minute videos,

0:12.0

where I explore various political and cultural topics with Prager You experts,

0:16.0

asking questions and digging deeper to bring you perspectives that you may not hear in a traditional college classroom.

0:21.6

To watch the video version of this series, click on the link in the description or go to

0:25.6

DailyWire.com.

0:28.6

Hi everyone, welcome to office hours.

0:34.6

I'm Georgia Howe with the Daily Wire.

0:36.6

So today, there is broad agreement

0:38.9

that some degree of climate change exists, and there's strong evidence that human activity

0:43.2

may be a contributing factor. But today, most of the disagreement has to do with the severity

0:48.2

of the problem, the reliability of the models, and most importantly, what the best strategy is

0:53.3

moving forward.

0:59.1

Despite these disagreements, most news outlets fail to represent the complexity of the problem and the nuance of the debate, opting instead to only focus on raising alarm.

1:04.3

So what are the facts on climate change as we currently understand them, and what is the

1:08.5

appropriate level of alarm?

1:10.7

Joining us to help answer some of these

1:12.1

questions is the author of the new book Unsettled, What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't,

1:17.1

Steve Coonin. Steve's also an American theoretical physicist. He's the director of the Center for

1:22.7

Urban Science and Progress at New York University, and the former Undersecretary for Science in the Department

1:28.1

of Energy under the Obama administration. Let's jump right in.

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Steve, thanks for joining me.

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