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Astronomycast Episode 653 Climate change looking into the variables. Welcome to Astronomycast

for Weekly Facts Based Journey Through the Cosmos. We'll help you understand not only what

we know but how we know what we know. I'm Fraser Kane. I'm the publisher of the

universe today. I've been a space and astronomy journalist for over 20 years. With me, as

always, as Dr. Pamela Gay, a senior scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the

Director of Cosmic Quest. Hey Pamela, how you doing? I am doing well. This is one of

those topics that I never look forward to but I feel has to be discussed. So dear audience,

please don't send us hate letters. Listen. And then send us comments. Well, you know,

I don't care. Like, you know what? Like, this isn't the show for you. If you think the

climate change isn't real, then just go away. Yeah. Just go talk to your friends who

also disbelieve in climate change. It's not, you know, I'm not going to get bullied

in harassed at talking about the scientific consensus. And it is a little unusual to me

that people will like just get so boisterous about it. And I think about the political

misinformation campaign that it's just done such a brilliant job. Like the people who

helped make people confused about whether or not cigarettes cause cancer, they moved

on to clean coal and then moved on to climate change and the effect is long lasting. So

anyway, yeah. And you know what's funny? I love my electric car. Like, if I had to choose

it in a gas car, like if my electric car destroyed the planet, I would choose it over my

gas car because it's so much cooler and better and quieter and faster. And I just plug it

in and it works better. And I'm genuinely excited at the electrification, the modernization,

the self reliance that we're moving towards. And again, it like, it's so cool. It's exciting.

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