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State of the Planet

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Climate Reporter Andrew Freedman Gets Right to the Point

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Andrew Freedman is a senior climate reporter for Axios and author of the daily Axios Generate newsletter.

Freedman has been covering extreme weather and climate science for over 15 years .

He says climate change has gone from a "theoretical future problem to a very much present-day problem" Freedman will give the Signature Speaker Series lecture at Columbia Climate School April 8 .

Climate reporter: I exist at the intersection of extreme weather and climate change.

The degree at Columbia was instrumental in helping me cover climate science and everything from El Niño to tipping points in the climate system.

I think I have to emotionally detach from things a lot of the time, but I don’t know how I do it.