#1777 - Andrew Dessler

The Joe Rogan Experience

Joe Rogan

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4.6 • 228.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2022

⏱️ 132 minutes

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Andrew Dessler is a climate scientist and professor of Atmospheric Sciences at Texas A&M University. He served as a Senior Policy Analyst in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy under President Bill Clinton, and is a Google Science Communication Fellow. Dessler is also the author of several books, among them the award-winning "Introduction to Modern Climate Change." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Joe Rogan
0:05.0	Logan Experience
0:06.0	Train by day Joe Rogan Podcast all day.
0:10.0	All day. All right, we're up.
0:13.0	Well, thank you very much for being here, Andrew.
0:15.0	Appreciate it.
0:16.0	Why don't you tell everybody if you would what you do and what your credentials are?
0:20.0	So I'm a professor of Atmospheric Sciences at Texas A&M University. I'm the director of the Texas Center for Climate Studies.
0:27.0	I've been studying climate and the atmosphere for about 30 years.
0:32.0	Okay, and I... and the atmosphere for about 30 years.
0:33.0	Okay, and I thank you for being here and I brought you on here to counter this book.
0:40.0	Steve Kuhnen, who was my last guest, and I'm trying to do this and balance things out.
0:46.4	He has a very different take on what the science says about climate change than you do.
0:53.8	So let's, I guess we should start.
0:56.8	I know you've read the book.
0:58.4	What do you think about his book?
1:01.2	Yeah, well, let me start with a little context. I get some historical context. So for decades on a number of problems, there have been scientists who show up and say the consensus is all wrong. So it started in the 60s with tobacco. So, you know, the evidence was very clear that smoking is bad for you.
1:18.0	And then the scientists started showing it was saying, no, you know, we don't really understand.
1:22.0	There's all these problems of the science and
1:24.8	what the tobacco companies figured out very early is that having a scientist advance that
1:29.5	message was much better than having a PR person. So they would go out and hire scientists
1:35.2	to say, hey, we need you to push this message.
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