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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

Evan Osnos and Robert Stavins on coal and climate change.

The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The New Yorker

Obama, Washington, Politics, President, Barack, Lizza, Wnyc, News, Wickenden

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2014

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Evan Osnos and Robert Stavins on coal and climate change.

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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics.

0:52.9

It's Thursday, April 3rd. I'm Dorothy Wickendon, executive editor of The New Yorker writers and editors about politics. It's Thursday, April 3rd.

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I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker.

0:57.9

On Monday, the UN released a dire report

1:00.6

saying that global warming threatens economies

1:03.0

around the world and the food supply.

1:05.7

The one message that comes out very clearly

1:08.2

is that the world has to adapt

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and the world has to mitigate.

1:12.6

And the sooner we do that, the less the chances of some of the worst impacts of climate change

1:18.6

being faced in different parts of the world.

1:20.6

That was Regenda Pashari, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which issued the report.

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