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Challenging Climate
Asking tough questions about the science, technology, and politics of climate change, two climate researchers challenge leading experts on one of the defining issues of our age. Every two weeks, they explore how we can fight global warming by cutting greenhouse gas emissions, carbon removal, adaptation and solar geoengineering. Dr. Jesse Reynolds and Dr. Pete Irvine consider the roles of computer models and persuasive narratives, economics and public policy, and renewable energy and national security in the climate debate, and look beyond to issues such as biotechnology and international development.
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music by Peter Danilchuk @clambgramb (IG/Twitter).
Challenging Climate
7. Gavin Schmidt on observing, attributing and communicating climate change
We speak with Dr. Gavin Schmidt, climate scientist, director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies and co-founder of the RealClimate climate science blog. Gavin’s research focuses on understanding the past, present and future of the climate system and the impacts of the various drivers of climate change. In this episode we take a deep dive on the science of climate change covering how it is observed, detected and attributed. Along the way Gavin debunks several climate skeptic talking points and discusses the changing challenges of climate communication.
Links:
- Gavin's profile at NASA GISS.
- The RealClimate blog.
- The IPCC on humanity's unequivocal influence on the climate.
- The Oridivician (Not Oligocene) was the geological age that Gavin was referring to.
- The Smithsonian project to document 500 million years of global-mean temperature (Science).
- Gavin giving the Stephen Schneider Lecture in 2013: What should a climate scientist advocate for?
