CBH Talk | Confronting Climate Change Part 2: The Science

Confronting Climate Change is a three-part series that explores one of the most urgent issues of our times. Join leading thinkers, scientists, journalists, and advocates for these vitally important conversations.

Part Two: The Science—Understanding a Changing Planet

Part Two of Confronting Climate Change turns to science, bringing together leading voices to illuminate the realities of global warming and its far-reaching effects on ecosystems and human lives. What do we know with certainty? What are scientists still working to understand? And how are these changes already reshaping the world around us?

Pulitzer Prize–winning author and The New Yorker staff writer Elizabeth Kolbert joins the conversation, drawing on decades of reporting and writing that has translated complex environmental science into urgent, compelling narratives including her most recent work Life on a Little-Known Planet. She is joined by climate scientist Dr. Gavin Schmidt, whose extensive research and leadership across major scientific institutions, including NASA and NOAA, offer a deeply informed perspective on how we study past, present, and future climate change, and how that knowledge is communicated to the public.

The program is moderated by Rebecca Hersher of NPR’s Climate Desk, whose award-winning reporting connects scientific research to the lived realities of extreme weather and a warming world. Together, they explore what the science tells us now and what it demands of us moving forward.

To learn more about register for Part 3 of Confronting Climate Change, click here.