Twenty five talk about whjy climate change is happening

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here are only a few issues more contentious than climate change in American political life.

But while the climate change debate rages in some quarters, in others, most notably among those who study the climate, there is wide consensus.

It’s for this reason that The Weather Channel has adopted a position on climate change that can generally be summed up as follows: we report the science, and the science consistently says climate change is real, humans are causing it, and we must prepare for its effects.

While the long-term effects of climate change are broadly agreed upon – an increase in extreme weather and changes to once-consistent weather patterns – the short-term effects can be difficult to pinpoint. “Was this particular storm caused or exacerbated by climate change?” is often unknowable.

All of the interview subjects of Climate 25 are speaking based on the fact that climate change is happening.

Check out “The Climate 25”.

'Proved' or 'disproved' - check the affiliations before deciding

The idea that anything in science is either “proved” or “disproved” seems to deny the essence of what it is.

“Proof” is a standard upon science rarely relies rather, most views are either consensus or evidence based and even then there is a degree of doubt.

Climate change varies little from that thesis and although most scientists qualified to work in the atmospheric field have a consensus view that humans have damaged and are changing earth’s atmosphere, and so its weather, but still the conversation continues, as it should.

However, American meteorologist and co-founder of The Weather Channel, John Coleman, has argued that the theory of man-made climate change is no longer credible.

The UK website, “Express” told of Coleman’s change of heart in a story headed: “Climate change PROVED to be 'nothing but a lie', claims top meteorologist”.