Earlier this week, the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published their sixth assessment report, and they’re using words that scientists don’t use lightly. Words like "unequivocal." This feels like something we’ve already known for a while, but this report is over 4000 pages long. What do we know now that we didn’t know before? And what does this report mean for us in Michigan, where heat waves and flooding have caused loss of all sorts?

GUESTS:

Michelle Martinez, acting Executive Director and founding member of the Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition

Jennifer Haverkamp, Director of the Graham Sustainability Institute

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