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Would make a difference that would be tangible to people who use facebook. >> transparency really is the thing. right now, the major tech companies of the world are employing some of the top minds in academia when it comes to political science, behavioral science, all of that stuff. the we want their expertise actually working on the behalf of human understanding, we need independent academics. academics who do not work for youtube, facebook, do not work for any of these companies examining the data that facebook and those companies have on us. those companies contain incredible amounts of dat...

Arm and you, said no, you're going to stay up here with me while i talk, what did you think? >> i looked up at the sky. i said look at me, ma, i'm with the president. >> martha: so many thought go through when i think about that day. i want people to understand, the country had been attacked in three different places. they had the president walking through the crowd. everybody felt there was another attack coming and could be anywhere at any time, right? >> absolutely. we all felt that way. the scale of these events were outside human understanding, the death, the two in the trade towers, one ...

Is it a small price is at an effect on people in the society that we live in? jeffrey anderson may be more than anyone in recent months thought deeply about that rec question which we strongly recommend we should we not on the air. stead we will have how join us right now. >> and he joins us. >> thanks so much for coming on i heard it this afternoon from an old friend of mine is a smal price to pay unwilling to do my part, why should we pause befor we agree to this? i think it's a huge price to pa for society as a whole masks ar uncomfortable and unhygienic they provide a compromise human inte...

Why doesn't anyone ever acknowledge the limits of human understanding on this one topic? >> part of the reason is when you do when you write books like mine, you end up getting character assassinated, it's incredible the way they go after you so there's a lot of reasons why people don't explain that. what you find is you read the summaries of the reports from climate change, they do a pretty good job of describing the uncertainties. we know they lead to temperatures rising between two important 45 degrees centigrade, we just don't know what the impacts of greater warming will be in a lot of ca...

Hard to measure globally as everyone knows but why doesn't anybody ever acknowledge the limits of human understanding on this one topic? >> part of the reason is when you do and you write books like mine, you end up getting character assassinated. it's quite incredible the way to go after you so there's a lot of reasons why people don't explain that. what you find is when you read the scientific reports, you read these summaries of the reports on climate change, they do a good job of an explaining g uncertainty. we know the doubling of co2 can lead to temperatures rising between 2 to 4.5 degre...