Michael Specter

New Yorker magazine

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Staff writer at the New Yorker and author of Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives

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As another  international climate conference  begins in Bonn, Germany, today, the world continues to warm and the human role grows ever more clear, as does the inability to reach…

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