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Boston Calling: A Half Degree of Separation

A Half Degree of Separation

27/10/2018 GMT

BBC World Service - Boston Calling, A Half Degree of Separation

Half a degree doesn't seem like much but in climate change, it makes all the difference

Half a degree doesn't seem like much but in climate change, it makes all the difference.

One of the stated goals recent United Nations report on climate change is to prevent the planet from warming more than one and a half degrees Celsius. We ask what would happen if the world warmed by, say, two degrees. 

Also: Calculating the cost of climate change is doable but difficult -- too difficult says the US Department of Defense; we fact check President Donald Trump on one of his recent statements about climate change; plus we take a journey to the remote Alaskan village of Shishmaref, where climate change and rising sea levels are a present threat.

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