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Taking politics out of the climate change debate

Hosted by Barbara Bogaev Oct. 16, 2019 Environment

Melting polar ice caps, Arctic Circle. Photo credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/CC 2.0, via Flickr

What will change the minds of climate change skeptics? An astrophysics professor suggests reframing the climate debate in a more positive light -- as a result of human evolution.

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