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Climate Reveal
A new podcast is bringing some of Boston's top science minds to campus with a mission to demystify climate change.
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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’s 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’s 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’s massive energy demands. Climate Reveal will release its second season of episodes this winter, featuring even more experts from BC and elsewhere. “The people and resources we’re going to be tapping into from the Boston area are just incredible,” Deese said, “not just from the universities, but the whole research community.” ◽
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