Quick Link: Is Climate Change Real? For the Thousandth Time, Yes
Climate Watch’s Craig Miller sat down with Jon Brooks, editor of KQED’s NewsFix blog, to go back to basics and review the evidence, once again, that shows the earth is warming, and what the likely effects of that will be.
“Polls say 97 percent of working climate scientists now see global warming as a serious risk” according to a recent article in the New York Times. But 42 percent of respondents in a March Gallup poll said the “seriousness of global warming” was “generally exaggerated.” And while 61 percent said the effects of global warming were “already happening” in 2007, that number has now dropped to 52 percent.
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About the author
Molly Samuel joined KQED as an intern in 2007, and since then has worked here as a reporter, producer, director and blogger. Before becoming KQED Science’s Multimedia Producer, she was a producer for Climate Watch. Molly has also reported for NPR, KALW and High Country News, and has produced audio stories for The Encyclopedia of Life and the Oakland Museum of California. She was a fellow with the Middlebury Fellowships in Environmental Journalism and a journalist-in-residence at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center. Molly has a degree in Ancient Greek from Oberlin College and is a co-founder of the record label True Panther Sounds. View all posts by Molly Samuel →
