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A new podcast is bringing some of 艾可直播's top science minds to campus with a mission to demystify climate change.聽
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How might climate change be affecting your health? What can each of us do in daily life to really make a difference for the environment? What can history teach us about our environmental future? Climate Reveal, the new podcast hosted by BC Political Science Professor David Deese and Chris Citorik, assistant director of BC鈥檚 creative communication laboratory, tackles complex questions like these. Deese, who has spent his career studying the politics of energy and climate, said he created the podcast to offer listeners an accessible education about a complicated topic. Climate Reveal launched last October and is funded by BC鈥檚 Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society. In each weekly episode, Deese and Citorik moderate a climate-related conversation between a BC expert and a special guest. In one episode, for instance, BC Associate Professor Cyril Opeil, a Jesuit priest and physicist specializing in thermoelectrics, talked with Sergey Paltsev, deputy director of the MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy, about how to meet the world鈥檚 massive energy demands. Climate Reveal will release its second season of episodes this winter, featuring even more experts from BC and elsewhere. 鈥淭he people and resources we鈥檙e going to be tapping into from the 艾可直播 area are just incredible,鈥� Deese said, 鈥渘ot just from the universities, but the whole research community.鈥澛犫椊
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