Welcome to StarTalk.

Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.

StarTalk begins right now.

This is StarTalk Live.

Normally, we do this in a theater, four, five times a year.

But because of the coronavirus lockdown, this is virtual.

And tonight's topic is climate change, the culture, the politics, the science, the denial, climate change.

And we're bringing in some experts for that.

And this evening is co-sponsored by PocketLab, a big supporter of teachers around the world,

supplying tools for them to do right by the topics that they're teaching the students.

And so with me, I've got Chuck Nice, as always, Chuck, how you doing?

Hey, what's happening, Neil?

It's climate week that's why we're doing it here and now live on Facebook and YouTube.

And of course, this is a collaboration with PocketLab.

They've become our recent very good friends in this space.

And so I think it's time to bring in our first guest.

Okay, so first, a climate scientist, Catherine, hey, hope, she's been on StarTalk before.

This is not a topic we haven't addressed.

And she's the director of the Texas Tech University Climate Center, professor of political science,

and a UN champion of the Earth, to find out what that precisely means.

And you said you've heard her TED Talk, is that right?

Absolutely, yeah.

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