Robinson Meier News Today

Meier, staff writer at "the atlantic," where he covers climate change and technology. it was a great piece, robinson, because i had read an article, a report and i dont think the full depth of it sunk in. what is your read of the report on the food supply level and one level deeper? >> yeah, absolutely. thank you for having me. i think on the food supply level, the scariest aspect of the report is that, you know, when the world warms 1.5 degrees celsius, which is about 3 degrees fahrenheit, whic...

Yet another dire warning from the intragovernmental panel on climate change, which is basically the u.n.s blue-ribbon panel of national scientists. in a report released yesterday, the ipcc found that climate change is not only going to threaten the global food supply -- scary enough -- but also force us all into a series of difficult choices about how to use the finite land surface and clean water that we have access to. in the report, data available since 1961, show that global population growt...