April 25, 2024

Episode 129

The Postmodern Prophets: Questioning the Cult of Climate Change with Dr. Roy Spencer

NASA climate researcher Dr. Roy Spencer joins the program to talk about his work and the politics of climatology!
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Dr. Roy Spencer has an extensive scientific pedigree. He’s a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama – Huntsville, and the US Science Team leader for the AMSR-E aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite. He’s been lauded by the American Meteorological Society for his groundbreaking work monitoring Earth’s temperature fluctuations. So when he expresses a scientifically-backed hypothesis that climate change is part of a naturally-occurring cycle and that human impact is small and possibly negligible, it carries a great deal of weight. Instead, he’s been mocked and challenged by untrained activists, and even had his own job explained to him by a reporter on national television. Today, he joins the program to discuss his work, as well as his concerns about activism- and ideology-driven government weighing down scientific research.