Climate change is one of the most complicated and multifaceted challenges we face as a species today. In Climate Hour, Skye Hawthorne and Samuel Marcus focus on a different aspect of climate change each episode, talking to a range of guests and exploring the science and human impact of climate in equal measure.
We sit down with avalanche forecaster and snow scientist Gabrielle Antonioli to talk about avalanche safety, the effect of climate change on snow science, and her work in Glacier National Park.
Geologists often say that "the past is the key to the present." In this episode, we sit down with Dana Royer, a professor in the Wesleyan Earth & Environmental Sciences department, to talk about deep time, paleoclimate, and what past climate change can tell us about our current warming world.
We sit down with California attorney Joel Baiocchi to talk about his personal experience with wildfire and the limits of homeowner's insurance in a natural disaster.