Help! There’s a climate denier at my dinner table

The holidays just aren’t complete without a little drama for dessert. And what’s more dramatic than a planet in crisis?

The drama of having a climate denier for dinner.

The year is winding down and on course to be the second-hottest year on record. Wildfires raged in Alaska and Australia. One neighborhood in the Florida Keys has been underwater for almost three months straight.

The United Nations recently warned that the targets set by the Paris Agreement in 2015 need to be 5 times stronger if the world is going to avoid some of the worst consequences of a warming planet. So maybe now is the time to broach the subject with your “it’s all a hoax” uncle?

According to a recent poll by market research company Morning Consult, 9 percent of Americans plan to talk about climate change at Thanksgiving this year, while another 13 percent expect someone else to mention it.

Read the story from Grist by Kate Yoder - “Help! There’s a climate denier at my dinner table.”