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 Stories About: climate AND climate science AND interview
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Clarion Caller
An interview with renowned climate scientist James Hansen |
Kate Sheppard |
15 May 2007 |
Main Dish |
| James Hansen. Photo: nasa.gov James Hansen, NASA's top climate expert, believes scientists have an obligation to speak out when their findings have important implications for the public -- and he certainly put that belief into practice last year when he told The New York Times that the Bush administration was trying to muzzle his calls for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. Hansen has been ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, climate science, coal, energy, international politics, interview, IPCC, James Hansen, politics (all these topics) |
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A chat with climatologist Bill Patzert on global warming, super El Ninos, and ultra La Ninas
Plain speaking from an expert |
Kit Stolz |
02 Oct 2006 |
Gristmill |
| To a layperson, the world of climatology can be an intimidatingly foreign land. Denizens of this world -- scientists -- speak a daunting, often-impenetrable blend of acronyms (AGW, IPCC, WPAC, ENSO), Latinisms (anomalies, coterminous, precipitation deficits), and math (confidence limits, regression-based, boundary knots). Besides the sheer complexity of global climate systems, the dreariness of this jargon may be one of the big reasons the general public has been slow to ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate science, interview (all these topics) |
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Climatologist Kelly Redmond on climate changes in the Western U.S.
A Q&A |
Kit Stolz |
10 Sep 2006 |
Gristmill |
| The best guide I know to the climatological consensus is soft-spoken Kelly Redmond, who helps lead the influential and wide-ranging Western Regional Climate Center. The WRCC has done a great deal of work for the US Global Change Research Program on climate change issues, such as investigating the possibility that global warming could seriously degrade the Sierra snow pack on which much of California depends for water. But don't let all that brainpower discourage you! Alt ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate science, interview (all these topics) |
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Climb-It Science
An interview with swashbuckling climate scientist Lonnie Thompson |
Amanda Griscom Little |
19 Jan 2006 |
Main Dish |
| Lonnie Thompson has clocked more hours above 18,000 feet than any other person in history, and yet he doesn't exactly like climbing mountains. A masochist? No, just a hard-driving climate scientist. The iceman cometh. Photo: Courtesy Lonnie Thompson. Thompson treks up the highest peaks of the tropics -- including the Himalayas and Andes -- to extract ice-core samples. He the ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate science, interview (all these topics) |
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