Transcripts for BBCNEWS Newsday 20210809 22:07:00

i'm joined now by gavin schmidt, an acting senior adviser on climate for nasa. thank you so much forjoining us here on newsday. the report warns of irreversible damage already done, gavin, and i know a lot of people out there are thinking that it might be too late to do anything? let out there are thinking that it might be too late to do anything?- be too late to do anything? let me answer that _ be too late to do anything? let me answer that very _ be too late to do anything? let mej answer that very straightforwardly. no, it is not too late. there are changes that will occur, we have an inertia in the system, it is out of balance and needs to get back into balance and needs to get back into balance before things will start changing. so that means there will be continued sea—level rise and temperature warming. but what we can do is we can prevent it from getting much worse. the choices that we have, the amount of future warming is very, very much in our hands

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