This article appeared in the August 29, 2024 edition of the Monitor Daily.

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A smarter climate debate

Clayton Collins
Director of Editorial Innovation

You didn’t get offered “attribution science” in school. 

But as climate writer Stephanie Hanes reports today, “how we understand the connections between climate change and extreme weather events can impact a slew of individual, economic, and policy choices.”

Stephanie’s reporting advances that understanding. She adds shades of gray to a topic that’s often debated in black and white. 

She does so routinely. Hear Stephanie discuss a story she wrote on one climate scientist’s misgivings on a recent episode of our “Why We Wrote This” podcast. Hear her, along with politics writer Christa Case Bryant, examine common ground on climate action on another. Thinking evolves when debates get smarter. 


This article appeared in the August 29, 2024 edition of the Monitor Daily.

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