ththe paris agreemenent says wet to limit globabal warming, but e aree following a business asas usual path, ignoring the scientific knowledge, and we e e doing this now for decades, for approximately 40 years, and i think it is important to let the public know that there is a very grgrt consensus among g scientis worldwidide that global w warmig andd unlimited glolobal warmings a mamajor threaeat to the biospe in general. brent: a study published this week finds that even if we manage to cut carbon emissions to zero by the year 2030, sea levels will continue to rise for at least a century. we were hearing the data and the science is being revised constantly, and it is usually revised to look worse than it did before. do we reaeally know how badly te situatation is? can we b baware of howow bad it is? >> well, i t think thaththe climate prproblem is to abstract for most people to realize what global warming really means. therefore, it is important that we enhance our ways of communication. i think we find -- w we need to find new ways of climate communication to translate the scientifi

we nowow have a return agreemen. i'm glad that people get to return to work. frankly, it has been hard on teachers. parentseen hard on the to be out this long. it has been hard on our students. doing aid not feel like celebration lap with the mayor right now. amy: 7500 public school workers with the service employees international union who had been striking also settled with the city earlier this week. they stayed on the picket lines through thursday. well, for more, we're joined by two guests. in chicago, stacy davis gates is with us. she is the executive vice president of the chicago teacher union. and labor journalist sarah jaffe joins us from philadelphia, author of "necessary trouble: americans in revolt." welcome to democracy now! let't's gogo directly tohihicag. stacy davis gates, can you talk that yout this deal is struck, the chicago teachers union, with the city of chicago, that if all of the workers today, well,nds teachers are back at school. >> our members took a ten-day sacrifice to finally bring about some equity in the chicago public schools.

. >> dana: it is a 99% agreemen agreement. >> greg: i don't think they saw this coming. a lot of these things when they go after trauma, it has a weird blowback. it is always a boomerang, whoever throws it it comes back and hits them in the face. the democrats have managed to make a trump scandal into a democrat scandal, and make trump sympathetic and every time they go after him with these human resource questions, it becomes really boring. the only thing that is not boring is the hunter biden stuff, that is exciting. >> juan: i think we know why it is exciting to you. but it was somebody talking about a perception. it is not only a perception, on the republican side. articles in the new yorker, "the new york times" about whether or not to -- never any instance of finding wrongdoing. >> greg: that's exactly what you say about the other side. >> juan: you say read the transcript, when i read the transcript -- >> greg: that is your perception, juan. >> dana: it was a perception you saw this morning, jesse. read jennifer williams who was detailed with vice president pence.