The UN Warns of a Looming Climate Crisis

Coral Davenport, energy and environment correspondent at The New York Times, talks about the new UN report on climate change, which issued dire warnings about the consequences of a warming planet, and the unprecedented scale of what would have to be done to change the course.

Behind the UN report: World leaders commissioned a panel of scientists to find out what things would look like before the 3.6 degree Fahrenheit tipping point.

The big takeaway is that 2.7 degrees looks a lot more like 3.6 than we thought, and we'll see it by 2040.

— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) October 11, 2018