A Half Degree of Separation
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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- Sat 27 Oct 201804:32GMTBBC World Service except Americas and the Caribbean, East and Southern Africa, News Internet & South Asia
- Sat 27 Oct 201821:32GMTBBC World Service except News Internet
- Sun 28 Oct 201805:32GMTBBC World Service East and Southern Africa
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