Gavin Schmidt of Real Climate on PBS's "Need to Know"

Gavin Schmidt of Real Climate on PBS's "Need to Know"

Skepticism vs. denial about climate change

by Alison Stewart, PBS, August 6, 2010
An increasing number of climatologists are coming out of the lab and into the public eye to combat a vocal — and fairly successful — movement to discredit climate science. Need to Know’s Alison Stewart speaks with Gavin Schmidt, a climatologist at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, to find out how to sort  fact from fiction regarding climate change. Schmidt is a contributor to RealClimate.org, a consortium of 11 climate scientists who aim to provide unbiased context for stories about climate change. All scientists are skeptics, he says, but denying climate change is something different.