2°C Climate Chat Podcast - Episode 10
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

In the News

American west stuck in cycle of ‘heat, drought and fire’

"We've already looked at some of the attribution of that heat wave over the pacific northwest and pretty much come to the conclusion it would have been meteorologically impossible to have that level of heat without climate change without and global warming and this pattern is is really becoming much more of a norm out here out west than it used to be, partly as a result of of climate change" - Dr. Karsten Shein

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2°C Climate Chat Podcast - Episode 9
Dr. Jennifer Jackson of the Hakai Institute

Dr. Jennifer Jackson discusses her work as a physical oceanographer in British Columbia, Canada, where she focuses on how the ocean is changing and the ripple effects manifesting throughout this realm.

Quotable Moments

"I like to think of the major climate changers in the ocean. There's three big ones. The first is temperature. So the warming of the ocean. The second is the deoxygenation or the loss of oxygen in the ocean, and the third is ocean acidification. And all three of those are somehow sort of interconnected. But also together they change the physical environment of the ocean and that has profound impacts on the ecosystem" - Dr. Jennifer Jackson

" A large amount of the of the drought depends on or ameliorating the drought would depend on having a decent snowpack in the winter for it to melt off gradually during the spring and supply a lot of those streams with the water they need in the groundwater recharge that farmers might need to plant their crops and to defer irrigation until later on in the summer. " - Dr. Karsten Shein

"Depending on how the winds and the climate shifts, you can get either more southerly warm waters into British Columbia or more northerly cold waters into British Columbia. And when you bring the southerly warm waters in you also bring the zooplankton and the southerly zooplankton are a lot less nutritious than the normal northerly zooplankton, the northern northerly species, they have lots of fat, lots of lipid. And so when a juvenile salmon comes out of a stream and eats one of those zooplankton, it's really good for the salmon. It gets lots of fat. It grows quickly. And so as it continues out into the open ocean, it's in quite good shape to survive the years until it has to return to spawn. But when a juvenile salmon comes out of the stream and it has one of these sort of less nutritious, almost junk food like Southern copepods species, it needs to eat a lot more of them in order to grow and to build the fat stories that it needs. So that's one of the reasons we're thinking that the salmon just aren't doing that well, is because these warm waters have sort of shifted in and brought with them these southerly species." - Dr. Jennifer Jackson

"The recent NOAA, NASA study that just came out suggests that the Earth's atmosphere is trapping about twice as much heat as the models had anticipated at this time. So that that does not bode well for future temperature increases, especially in places like the Arctic. But in turn, all of this additional heat is altering patterns of the jetstream, for example, forcing it farther north in the summertime, bringing storms up to those regions that didn't used to get summertime storms and not as far south in the wintertime. So on top of that snow pack is is in many places decreasing and is even disappearing in the summertime." - Dr. Karsten Shein

In the News

Getting to the Bottom of Trawling’s Carbon Emissions

 "That's the work that got us involved in this in this whole this whole process of citizen science was putting hobo temperature loggers and light loggers on a on a buoy string down in little Cayman and then seeing that there was a lot of difference from one layer to the next. "
- Dr. Karsten Shein

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