From New York, David Wallace-Wells interviews climatologists Wallace Smith Broecker, Peter Ward, and Michael Mann, and more to come. Are we as doomed as that New York magazine article says? Why it’s so hard to talk about the worst problem in the world. Climate scientists say New York magazine’s cover story about global warming is unnecessarily apocalyptic — but can fear help the planet? It’s no exaggeration to say human civilization is at stake. Did that New York magazine climate story freak you out? It’s okay to talk about how scary climate change is. “What would we do if we discovered aliens who were 50 years from earth and were going to destroy us?”: Our approach to climate change isn’t working — let’s try something else.
