Election Special: Climate Change

Science Vs

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Science, Education, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 1 November 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Recently we've been warned that climate change is scarier than ever -- and that we are to blame. Yet surveys find around half of Americans don't think climate change is caused by humans. So how does science know that? And how bad will climate change get? Science Vs has brought this episode up to date so you have the facts for next week's midterm elections. Check out the transcript with all the citations, right here: http://bit.ly/33CGgHY UPDATE 12/10/20: An earlier version of this episode incorrectly said that Svante Arrhenius came up with the idea that rising carbon dioxide levels could warm the planet. Scientists including Eunice Newton Foote had this idea before Arrhenius. The episode has been updated. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman and you're listening to Science Versus from Gimlett Media.
0:05.2	This is the third episode in our week-long series focused on big election issues.
0:10.3	Today's episode, Climate Change.
0:13.5	Since his presidential campaign, Donald Trump has been a climate change skeptic.
0:18.5	Who believes in global warming?
0:20.3	All of this with the global warming and that a lot of it's a hoax.
0:24.5	It's a hoax.
0:25.5	I mean, it's a money-making industry, okay?
0:27.3	It's a hoax.
0:28.3	Even though he recently kind of acknowledged climate change so far in his presidency,
0:33.9	we've seen a lot of things that made climate scientists nervous.
0:37.8	Information about climate change and renewable energy has been scrubbed from government websites.
0:42.6	President Trump signed an executive order making it easier to produce fossil fuels like coal
0:47.2	and natural gas.
0:48.8	And of course, he pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement.
0:52.3	And Trump says, basically, we don't know for sure if the changes we're seeing to our
0:56.5	planet are because of climate change that was caused by humans.
1:01.0	You don't know whether or not that would have happened with or without, man.
1:04.2	You don't know.
1:05.2	What about the scientists who say it's worse than ever?
1:09.8	You have to show me the scientists.
1:14.9	Show me the scientists?
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