“Katharine Hayhoe, Radley Horton, Michael Oppenheimer, and so many climate scientists like them are working overtime trying to solve the biggest crisis of our time. We asked them to tell us more about this incredibly difficult job, particularly at a time when the U.S. government is hostile towards many climate solutions.”
In the first half of this episode of our CleanTech Talk podcast interview series, Michael Barnard, Chief Strategist of TFIE Strategy Inc. and CleanTechnica contributor, sits down to talk with John Cook, cognitive scientist and founder of Skeptical Science, about climate change misinformation and communication.
Katherine Hayhoe explains how to address the fears of evangelical Christians about climate change.
High atop Mauna Loa on the island of Hawai’i, there is an observatory scientists use to study the cosmos. At 14,000 feet above sea level, it has a clearer view of the heavens than most places on Earth. (It is a neighbor of Kilauea, the volcano that erupted this week after a 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck the island.) The observatory is also an ideal place to monitor the Earth’s atmosphere in a place with no local pollution from large cities. One of the instruments installed there measures the concentration of carbon dioxide in the air.
Scott Pruitt, Dunderhead in Chief at the EPA, says warmer temperatures may be good for mankind and that people who say what the temperature should be in 2100 are “arrogant.” He should know. He knows a thing or two about arrogance himself.
A new analysis shows that Hurricane Harvey was a once in 25,000 year event. But that doesn’t mean it will be another 25,000 years before another storm just like it occurs.
