CLIMATE HOUR – The study of volcanoes and rocks help scientists chart our planet’s history of warming and cooling. These studies provide quantifiable data that is accurate, objective, and results in a high degree of consensus among scientific communities. Consensus among geologists who study our planet’s rocks and the minerals and processes that shape and form them. Consensus among geomorphologists who study our planet’s surface, why landscapes look the way they do, and how they evolved. And consensus among volcanologists who study the lava and magma beneath our planet’s surface.

Together, these hard sciences provide solid data that leads to testable climate science predictions. But, perhaps more importantly, the study of volcanoes and rocks give us a baseline for comparison to today’s accelerated period of climate change. And current rates of volcanic and geomorphic change may help our scientists predict and prepare us for the climate change coming down the road.

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Join host, Bob Grove, and guests to discuss the study of Volcanoes and Rocks, climate’s ultimate hard science. Guests include:

• Paul Bierman, Professor of Environmental Science, University of Vermont


• Richard Hazlett, Professor Emeritus, Geology and Environmental Analysis, Pomona College, California

To learn more, visit …

• https://www.PaulBierman.net/books


• https://www.amazon.com/Roadside-Geology-Hawaii/dp/0878427112


• https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6JPDD24

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