Weather & Science
The Future of Climate Science Without the US
Jim Skea, chair of the UN’s climate science body, discusses the future of its crucial research after the US pulled its support.
A firefighter from the Slovak fire service works to extinguish a wildfire in Greece.
Photographer: Konstantinos Tsakalidis/BloombergThe United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is responsible for collating our shared scientific understanding of how global warming is impacting the planet. But the body now faces a challenge after the US withdrew funding for its scientists to participate.
Jim Skea, a professor who chairs the IPCC, joins Akshat Rathi on Zero to talk about the body’s future, whether the organization can survive the US pullback, and what questions the next set of reports are going to answer.