Bench Talk | Insights From the Pandemic - Global Climate Tipping Points | August 12, 2024

Did the Trump administration purposefully target international Muslims during the COVID pandemic? Should gain-of-function research on microorganisms be outlawed? What did the pandemic reveal about the American healthcare system? And do these things (and other issues) warrant a non-partisan congressional commission to investigate the US response to COVID? Then, we review the state-of-the-climate. Are we going to be able to limit global warming to only 2 degrees? And what is the 'global climate tipping-point' that we might surpass as early as 2032? ‘Bench Talk: The Week in Science’ is a weekly radio program that airs on WFMP Louisville FORward Radio 106.5 FM (forwardradio.org) every Monday at 7:30 pm, Tuesday at 11:30 am, and Wednesday at 7:30 am. Visit our Facebook page for links to the articles discussed in this episode: https://www.facebook.com/pg/BenchTalkRadio/posts/?ref=page_internal