What do you say to someone who says the science isn’t settled?
Gavin Schmidt, Kevin Anderson, Erik Conway and Erick Fernandes tell us: a) Why we should worry about climate change; b) what they say to someone who asks if the science is settled; c) what we can personally do about climate change; d) what our government should do about climate change; and e) what a four degree warmer world would mean to us.
Gavin Schmidt is the Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies; Kevin Anderson is professor of energy and climate change at the University of Manchester, and deputy director of the Tyndall Centre; Erik Conway is, with Naomi Oreskes, the author of Merchants of Doubt (2010) and The Collapse of ‘Western’ Civilization (2014); and Erick Fernandes is Adviser on Agriculture, Forestry & Climate Change at the World Bank.
