Climate Change Chat on NPR

[This is cross-posted to the LTER blog]

Chatting on NPR's News Blog, Two-Way

After collecting water samples this morning, fellow scientist Chris Neill and I joined National Public Radio’s Jason Orfanon and Frank James in  an online chat on NPR’s news blog, The Two-Way. From last night, here is the post introducing Chris and I for the chat.

Overall the chat was incredibly fun and it was a great opportunity to get a sense for the excitement out there regarding Antarctic and climate science. Although nothing is set in stone yet, there is a decent chance the birders Kristen and Jen may get to have a chat on the same blog which would be awesome as their work would likely generate a ton of interest.

After participating in the chat, I noticed that Josh Marshall wrote an interesting post to his blog Talking Points Memo regarding skepticism and science. Given the number of questions we had about skepticism but were unable to answer too extensively due to time constraints, I found Josh’s points to be quite relevant when trying to deal with climate change policy.