Climate Accuracy, Activism, and Alarmism

The Agenda with Steve Paikin

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Newly elected provincial governments across Canada are pushing back against earlier greenhouse gas reduction policies. Nam Kiwanuka is joined by Dianne Saxe, Ontario's former environmental commissioner; Courtney Howard of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment; and Gregory Flato, a senior research scientist at Environment and Climate Change Canada. They discuss scientific accuracy, political activism, and alarmist language in the climate-change debate.
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Jul 30, 2019
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