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Climate denialism, ‘doom porn’, deflection and The New Climate War We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size Advertisement At the heart of the new book by one of the world’s most famous climate scientists, Michael Mann, is the assertion that climate change denialism is now a spent force and, instead, action is being hampered by distraction and what he calls “doom porn”. Professor Mann asserts in The N...

On this edition of Your Call’s One Planet Series, we're speaking with Professor Michael Mann about his new book, The New Climate War: The Fight to Take

President of the united states. and we bring in someone who even trump voters will agree knows more about that subject than donald trump to objectively evaluate trump talk. axios reports president trump repeatedly asked experts about using nuclear bombs to stop hurricanes. axios reports during one hurricane briefing at the white house, trump said, i got it, why dont we nuke them? according to one source who was there. they start forming off the coast of africa as theyre moving across the "atlant...

They start forming off the coast of africa as theyre moving across the atlantic. why cant we do that? joining us with the answer is michaelman automann, directors of the earth systems science center at penn state university. professor mann, thank you very much for joining us tonight. to donald trumps question, why cant we do that? what is the answer? >> thanks, lawrence. its good to be with you. first of all, why shouldnt we do it? obviously, it would do a lot of damage to ocean life, there woul...

>> what about the part that the president -- we know the president wouldnt listen to anything you have to say here about the planets temperatures effect on this. could you explain why the temperature of the water is relevant? >> yes. it means more evaporation which provides more energy to strengthen these storms. in fact, its a very simple relationship. the warmer you make the ocean surface temperatures, the more heat youre putting into the atmosphere, the more intense these storms can become. a...

That may cause people to say, okay, now i pay attention. how do you convince the worldwide community that changes need to be made and to stick with it? >> yeah. well, the bottom line is when people say well it costs a lot to act on this problem, its costing a whole lot more to not act right now. the cost of inaction already is far greater than the cost of taking action. and that becomes more true over time. its a matter of deferred maintenance. the longer we wait to bring down our emissions, the...

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