With President Trump fully embracing fossil fuels and indicating that he intends to abandon US efforts to address climate change (and even the scientific inquiry underlying those efforts), there is no time like the present to refresh what we know about climate change, what we can do about it, and what kinds of research still need to be done to improve our understanding. This episode is the first of what will become a mini-series of episodes on the science of climate change, and it starts by looking at the debate over climate change, the counter-arguments of climate change skeptics and the rebuttals to those arguments, and what recent scientific observations can tell us. It also suggests that ultimately, there may be a lot more willingness amongst the rank and file of all political parties to take action on climate, regardless of ideological perspectives on the left and right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We discuss the current state of climate science and rebut the arguments of climate change skeptics, and look ahead to what must be done to halt climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[871,111],"tags":[224,213,107,211,842,89,222,216,215,217,214,221,223,219,212,220,218],"class_list":["post-682","xen_episodes","type-xen_episodes","status-publish","hentry","category-climate-science-miniseries","category-energy-transition-show-podcasts","tag-aeo2016","tag-antarctic","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-science","tag-cs-mini","tag-geoengineering","tag-glaciers","tag-global-warming","tag-hiatus","tag-hockey-stick","tag-ice-shelf","tag-libertarian","tag-oil","tag-plants","tag-sea-levels","tag-temperatures","tag-troposphere","xen_guests-joseph-majkut"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n