If the global warming debate is a big issue, you won't want to miss this interview on Thursday night with a learned expert who's been researching and teaching it for years. Spread the word and get your wingnut friends to listen in!
At the Louisville IdeaFestival in late September, I spoke with a multitude of the most incredibly insightful and interesting innovators (pardon the alliteration) of today. One of those people was Climatologist Chris Turney, a professor at the University of Exeter in the UK. I got around 30 minutes with him, and we discussed topics from the debate itself to carbon capture to lessons we can learn from climates past.
A lot of people on the right say that what we;re going through now is a natural cycle-- that there's absolutely nothing to worry about and the mere concept of man-made global warming is a "liberal hoax." Turney calmly addresses research done centuries ago by men like John Tyndall that talk about the effects of carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere, how it traps heat, and how the more we put in the skies, the warmer our planet will get. Pure and simple.
He discusses climates past, like how the Sahara desert used to be the lush, green Garden of Eden before the sun warmed it into a vast expanse of sand. He talks about how the glaciers in India, which provide over a billion people with their water supply, are receding. He talks about how the Northwest Passage is open again for the first time in eons. His book, with the same title as this diary, discusses these issues more in-depth than this 30-minute interview.
The interview answered a lot of my own personal questions about the debate and the intricacies of climate change, and he explains it all very clearly. I think it would make for some great debate ammo against the right if you ever should debate this topic with a wingnut or two.
So, wthut further ado, here's a shameless plug.
Listen to The Faux Radio Show this Thursday night at 10:30 PM ET/9:30 PM CT. If you can't listen to the live segment, you can still catch it anytime on the archive just by going to the show website.
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