What you and your government are not being told about the threat of rising seas. Plus, how climate change was a driver of civil war in Syria. A frank talk about thawing permafrost and why millions of Russians think global warming is a good idea.
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Dr. Robert Nicholls of the University of Southhampton has worked with the IPCC - but says that UN body is not telling governments the real scope of the risk of sea level rise. I reached him in the Maldives.
Dr. Colin Kelly has the first peer-reviewed paper showing the age of climate wars has arrived. His team showed the long-lasting drought in Syria drove a million farmers into the cities, helping fuel the civil war there.
We don't very often hear about what is happening in Russia, especially now with the latest freeze in relations. So I'm happy to bring you this interview about how the Russian north is thawing, and what that means for their economy, and the people who live there.
Will disappearing permafrost change the future for the whole world? You bet it will.
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