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Conversation with a climate convert...
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/kate-marvel-climate-scientist-jeff-goodell-interview-1064266/This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.
Before she fell in love with climate science, Kate Marvel dreamed of being a movie star. She was tall and blond and good with words and liked the idea of life on the big screen. But after a year or so as a drama major at UC Berkeley, she had a rude awakening: “It turns out that there are a lot of people who would like to be actors and most of them, unlike me, are talented,” she says.
On a lark, she took an astronomy class and discovered that she had a brain for science. She switched her major to physics, and went on to get a Ph.D from the University of Cambridge in the UK. She gave up quarks and string theory to work on energy-grid modeling and arms control (abandoning that, she says, because “I don’t like bombs”). She’s now an associate research scientist at Columbia University and NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City, one of the citadels of climate science, where she studies how our rapidly warming atmosphere impacts clouds, rainfall, and other climate feedbacks.
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Before she fell in love with climate science, Kate Marvel dreamed of being a movie star. She was tall and blond and good with words and liked the idea of life on the big screen. But after a year or so as a drama major at UC Berkeley, she had a rude awakening: “It turns out that there are a lot of people who would like to be actors and most of them, unlike me, are talented,” she says.
On a lark, she took an astronomy class and discovered that she had a brain for science. She switched her major to physics, and went on to get a Ph.D from the University of Cambridge in the UK. She gave up quarks and string theory to work on energy-grid modeling and arms control (abandoning that, she says, because “I don’t like bombs”). She’s now an associate research scientist at Columbia University and NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City, one of the citadels of climate science, where she studies how our rapidly warming atmosphere impacts clouds, rainfall, and other climate feedbacks.
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