extraordinarily complex. over 100 separate nation states have to effectively agree to a complicated framework so how they will essentially alter their national economies, how they will limits fossil fuel use with. and that has not been helped by the broader tone of the past week or so. altered by last weekend the united states and saudi arabia and kuwait rejecting a key report by likely damage of climate change in the next decade and that has led some to doubt whether there is broad consensus who make real progress. there are concerns that the final framework they settle on will be too weak, will be too relaxed and allow too much wiggle room for countries to actually be forced into openly reducing their emissions. there are some suggestions that while the u.s. is publicly actingingact
worse and it s affectis effects u.s. correspond dire. there could be more premature deaths and a shrinking economy. 9 report suggests immediately cutting fossil fuel use and greenhouse emissions which could save thousands of lives and billions of dollars. over the weekend, i spoke with environmentalist big mckibben. predicted the consequence of climate change decades ago and said not much has been done to stop it. what was 30 years ago a theoretical and abstract threat is now the fierce daily reality of people s lives. sometimes it s incredibly dramatic, as in those wildfires that you ve been covering the last few weeks in california. often it s slower, the droughts, the rising sea levels. but all in all, climate change is now the biggest thing happening on our planet. the most insidious. and the fact we haven t done anything about it, largely
responsibility. matthew hedges was convicted of espionage earlier this week and he denies the charges. the uae and britain say they are determined to reach a solution. in the u.s., a ferry crashed into a dock in san francisco friday. two people suffered minor injuries. both the ferry and the dock were damaged. authorities are investigating why it happened. back to our top story this hour, dire new warnings with the effects of climate change on human health and the health of the american economy. a u.s. government report suggests drastic action is needed to cut fossil fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions to save thousands of lives. but the report conflicts with president trump s skepticism about the changing climate. for more, here is are a that i
taste of the joke. the story that has been stress m stressing me out all week, why don t i care about this? there is a fair immediamedia critique in this that they care about this stuff, and then they find a way not the care about it. and most people won t care if you only hear about it once. this is a terrifying statistic, and the percentage of americans who hear about climate change once a week in the media diet is about 12%. so most people really aren t hearing about this. 80% of americans don t hear about climate change even once a week in media diets, and so they don t the realize that in fact, it is a tremendous problem that we have to ed a are dress right now. it is already affecting us, and it is already hurting people, and already killing people, and we have so little time to transition away from the fossil fuel use into a clean energy system so that the media needs to be report on this so that people can be inform and so that
the accusations are explosive, that the national oceanic and atmospheric administration intentionally manipulated data to hide a 12 year pause and global warming and that the study was a major influence in the 2015 paris climate summit where western nations agreed to spend billions to reduce fossil fuel use. in fact, according to john bates who recently retired as a lead scientist of the national climatic data center. his claim took center stage at a hearing today entitled making the epa great again. we have every reason to be skeptical that our scientific community is maintaining its integrity. in an interview sunday with the daily mail, bates said they had good data from bullies and they threw it out you never change good data that s what they did so as to make it look like this he was warmer. bates skewered the author that he had his thumb on the scale