Dr. Sharon Collinge of Environmental Studies at University of Colorado Boulder

March 8th, 2008 andrea

After a little shaky start due to my continuing cold, Klew and I conducted a wonderful interview with Dr. Sharon Collinge, professor of Environmental Studies at University of Colorado Boulder about climate, habitats and her current work studying Prairie Dogs and plague. Apologies for the abrupt ending.

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Larry McDaniel of NCAR on Climate and Social Science

March 8th, 2008 andrea

Larry McDaniel took an unusual path to NCAR. He was a painter who earned an MFA from University of Colorado Boulder, but because of a background in statistics, he started working on climate models at NCAR. In this interview, he talks about his work, the development of climate models and an initiative to bring the social sciences into climate research:

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Dr. Kevin Trenberth of NCAR and the IPCC

February 15th, 2008 andrea

Today I spoke with Dr. Kevin Trenberth, head of the Climate Analysis Section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and lead author of the 2001 and 2007 IPCC Scientific Assessment of Climate Change, about his influential work with hurricanes and warming, geo-engineering, and the ethical and moral dimension of responding to climate change.

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Dr. Paulette Middleton discusses Air Quality Science, Aesthetics and Policy

February 12th, 2008 andrea

Yesterday I spoke with Boulder air quality scientist Paulette Middleton, whose work with NCAR, NOAA, the EPA has been instrumental in improving air quality along the front range and internationally. We talked about how air quality issues intersect with climate change, public policy and perception, modeling emissions and raising public awareness.

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Dr. Peter Doran of University of Illinois Chicago Earth and Environmental Sciences

December 31st, 2007 andrea

In 2006, Dr. Peter Doran wrote an op-ed for the New York Times about a research paper he and his colleagues published in Nature in 2002. The research presented in the paper showed that from 1986 to 2000, there had been climate cooling in one small area of Antarctica. The information in the paper was quickly mis-interpreted by a number of high-profile media personalities as proof that global warming was not happening, and Dr. Doran wrote the op-ed to set the record straight. Today I had the rare opportunity to interview him about this and his current research. Here is the interview:

and here is a link to the NYT article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/27/opinion/27doran.html

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