Jason Boyer – Chief Meteorologist ABC NEWS 13
Karsten and Neil discuss Jason’s role as a trained atmospheric scientist in the climate conversation and the broader role of broadcast media in delivering scientific information in a digestible way.
Quotable Moments
“Our nighttime lows have been warming and our daytime highs have been warming and the pollen seasons are extending, insect populations are growing, you know we’re not seeing the plant species that we used to see, there are invasive species coming in, so all of those kind of tie in to the messaging and the storytelling of most of the weather forecasts” – Jason Boyer
“Atmospheric science is a broad spectrum of weather and climate going from what’s happening in the atmosphere, behavior of the atmosphere over a few seconds out to centuries and basically the difference between a meteorologist and a climatologist is that a meteorologist is focused more on researching and understanding the behavior of the atmosphere over shorter time scales or shorter distances and looking a lot more at the dynamics of the atmosphere, whereas a climatologist is looking more at the statistical behavior of the atmosphere over a longer period of time and trying to understand how both of them are trying to relate to each other” – Dr. Karsten Shein
“I’m a scientist and evidence-based messaging is what i’m about so I will present to them evidence that I am confident is reliable has been certified by scientists across the country, other folks that are way smarter than me, and I will you know show that evidence and say – look whether or not you quote unquote believe in climate change, or not believe in it – understand that there’s something going on there.” – Jason Boyer
“You’re in the business of building trust with the public because you’re having to take these very complicated or weighted subjects and you have you have to interpret them in a way that the layman can understand and then build trust from there using all of these different data streams to try and build something that they can rely on and then come back to on a daily basis for the accurate weather forecast.” – Neil van Niekerk