https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/29/we-cannot-make-it-without-science-greta-thunberg-says-climate-experts-are-being-ignored

Climate specialists not being listened to despite Covid showing importance of following science, activist says

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Tue 29 Dec 202010.42ESTLast modified on Tue 29 Dec 202011.02EST

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Climate experts are not being listened to despite the coronavirus pandemic highlighting the importance of following science, the environmental activistGreta Thunberghas said.

The Swedish teenager argued that the Covid-19 crisis had “shone a light” on how “we cannot make it without science”, but people were “only listening to one type of scientist”.

Her comments came in a joint interview with the author Margaret Atwood, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday as part of the two-times Booker prize-winning writer’s guest-editing of the Today programme.

Thunberg was asked if the pandemic’s impact on people’s appreciation of science would have an effect on climate information.