PBS NewsHour

Why 2019 extreme weather didn't prompt climate policy action

Clip: 12/25/2019 | 8m 42s | Video has closed captioning.

By almost any measure, 2019 was a year of especially sobering news on climate change, with grim warnings about what could happen in the future along with extreme weather events occurring now. The year also saw a global protest movement, initiated by young people, arise to try to tackle the problem. But as Miles O’Brien reports, the call for action was often divorced from political reality.