Roger Pielke Jr - Climate Change Innovation

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Tell me why we’ve got Human Impacts on Weather and Climate.

Actually, that is a book that’s co-authored by my father, and in my book, The Climate Fix, the first chapter is entitled Dinner Table Climate Science and I explain how growing up I was taught all sorts of things by my father, who was a leading atmospheric scientist, and his colleague, Bill Cotton. They worked together at Colorado State for several decades and they have written this book that provides a thorough and comprehensive look at human influences on the climate system, which includes carbon dioxide but goes far beyond just carbon dioxide. If people want to understand the issue of climate change it’s important to understand the diversity of influences that people have on the climate system. You could point to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Survey, but that’s a monumental tome that is not really written for the layperson.

We have monumental tomes on the site.

Well, I would have a hard time recommending a thousand-page academic survey.

I would have a hard time reading it. But this one is readable, is it?

Yes. It’s not written for the broad public, but anyone could pick it up and learn something important about the climate system and why it is so complicated to make accurate predictions and the wide range of influences we have.

What are some of the human impacts on weather and climate, apart from the obvious ones?

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