{"id":77760,"date":"2021-01-14T15:04:14","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T15:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=77760"},"modified":"2021-01-14T15:04:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T15:04:14","slug":"60-minutes-guardian-and-game-changing-new-climate-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/60-minutes-guardian-and-game-changing-new-climate-science\/","title":{"rendered":"60 Minutes, The Guardian, and Game-Changing New Climate Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday night<strong>,<\/strong>&nbsp;America met Michael Mann on&nbsp;<i>60 Minutes<\/i>, one of the country\u2019s most watched and influential television news programs for nearly 50 years now. A professor at Penn State University, Mann is one of the world\u2019s most eminent climate scientists, and also one of the most outspoken.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/western-wilfires-record-temperatures-california-60-minutes-2020-10-04\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The&nbsp;<i>60 Minutes<\/i>&nbsp;segment<\/a>, titled \u201cCause And Effect,\u201d focused on climate change and California\u2019s ongoing record wildfires, which have burned more than 4 million acres to date. After showing the viral clip of Donald Trump telling state officials that the Earth will \u201cstart getting cooler,\u201d correspondent Scott Pelley asked Mann about the president\u2019s additional assertion that \u201cscience doesn\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president doesn\u2019t know,\u201d Mann retorted. \u201cAnd he should know better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The geophysicist explained to&nbsp;<i>60 Minutes\u2019&nbsp;<\/i>roughly 10 million viewers that&nbsp;<i>all<\/i>&nbsp;of the world\u2019s leading scientific institutions, including the US National Academy of Sciences, had reached a consensus. In a sound bite that journalists across the United States should quote in their own climate reporting, Mann kept it simple enough for an eight-year-old: \u201cThere\u2019s about as much scientific consensus about human-caused climate change as there is about gravity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday night<strong>,<\/strong>&nbsp;America met Michael Mann on&nbsp;<i>60 Minutes<\/i>, one of the country\u2019s most watched and influential television news programs for nearly 50 years now. 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