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Do we need to be scared straight on climate change?

I'm Leon Krause in for Warren only, and this is to the point.

It's now been a month since President Trump said he would

withdraw America from the Paris Climate Accord. Now a story by New York Magazine has taken

the debate about the dangers of global warming to an unlikely boiling point. The report

paints a picture of unbreatheable air and food shortages. More than two million people have

read the doomsday warnings, but some scientists call it

dangerous alarmism. Others call it not scary enough. We will find out why. And later on today's

talking point, Trump's big, beautiful border wall is looking more like a 700-mile fence with

solar panels if it ever happens. But first, here's the news.

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Program Fund. I'm Leon Krause, in for Warren Only, and this is To the Point. Maybe you are one of

the two million people who have read or shared the recent New York Magazine cover story,

which theirs imagine an uninhabitable earth. Maybe you liked it.

Maybe you found it unhelpful or excessive.

Is it an exercise in journalistic alarmism or necessary scientific awareness?

On today's talking point,

Build that wall, build that wall, build that wall.

During the campaign, Donald Trump never wavered on his promise to build a

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