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slash UK slash AI for people. Welcome to Scientific American Science Talk posted on January 31st,

2019. I'm Steve Murski. So it's been pretty cold in parts of the country,

and some self-styled comedians have joked that we sure could use some of that good old-fashioned

global warming. Of course, they weren't in Australia, or it was so hot a few days ago that

car tires were

melting onto the roads. On December 11th, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

announced that the past five years have been the warmest on record in the Arctic and that the

region is warming at twice the rate as the global average. Those were just two of the

trends in NOAA's annual Arctic report card. Now, back in our April issue, Rutgers University

climatologist Jennifer Francis talked about some of these same issues and explained why climate

change is so deadly serious.

Her article also appeared in our recent special issue, The Top Science Stories of 2018.

Collections editor Andrea Garleski chatted briefly with managing editor Curtis Brainerd about that piece.

Curtis, thanks for joining us.

So there were a lot of concerning reports about the climate this year.

And you're the managing editor of Scientific American.

Why was it so important for us to include this story Meltdown by Jennifer Francis?

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