On this week’s episode of StarTalk All-Stars, veteran host Seth Shostak and co-host Eugene Mirman invite guest Ken Caldeira, climate scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science, for a serious discussion about climate change. One of my favorite Carl Sagan quotes is, “It’s far better to grasp the universe how it really is than to… View Article
Climatologist Dr. Gavin Schmidt, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in NYC, tells us how we should go about handling those who deny climate change.
According to comedian Chuck Nice, some people can’t accept settled science! In this segment, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson strikes back at scientific misconceptions.
StarTalk All-Stars Series Premiere: Host Bill Nye the Science Guy and co-host Chuck Nice answer Cosmic Queries about humanity’s major challenge, with a little help from climatologist Dr. Gavin A. Schmidt of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
On tomorrow’s premiere of StarTalk All-Stars, Dr. Gavin A. Schmidt tells episode host Bill Nye and co-host Chuck Nice that climate change means it is unlikely that we will ever have another Ice Age here on planet Earth. And he should know. As a leading climatologist and the Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for… View Article
Neil deGrasse Tyson looks past politics to examine climate change, clean energy, the future of life on Earth, and spider goats with environmental activist and former Vice President Al Gore, blogger Andrew Revkin, and comic co-host Maeve Higgins.
On this Friday’s podcast, in-studio guest NY Times Dot Earth blogger Andrew Revkin says that at the start of the 21st Century, global warming became a “political badge,” joining the ranks of such hot-button issues as abortion and gun rights. But here at StarTalk, we try and treat the subject the way we try to… View Article
On a hot night in Brooklyn, Bill Nye and Eugene Mirman get steamed up about climate change with help from their guests, climatologist Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig (member of the Nobel Prize-winning IPCC) and comedians Jemaine Clemant and Michael Che.
Part 1 of “Storms of Our Century” was all about storms and the weather. But the Bell House really heats up in Part 2 as StarTalk Live moves on to climate change. From Questlove’s very first question, “Why do political revisionists deny climate change?” to Neil’s closing statement that demonizing energy is the wrong attitude,… View Article