Ajit Niranjan

Climate change is simple. People burned too many fossil fuels, spewing gases that trapped sunlight and heated the planet. That's made extreme weather worse — heat waves are growing hotter, tropical cyclones stronger and coastal floods deeper. Scientists and oil companies have known this for decades. But while researchers begged politicians and journalists to take it seriously, the fossil fuel industry funded a campaign of denial, disinformation and greenwashing that continues today. The question now is how to fix it.

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This channel is an ideology-free guide to telling that story simply. I'm a climate and data journalist in Berlin, mainly writing articles and talking in the TV studio. I'm part of the team that made the award-winning environmental solutions channel Planet A: https://www.youtube.com/@DWPlanetA. 

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