Kate Marvel spends her days playing with climate models, which she says are “like a very expensive version of The Sims.” As a physicist she gets tired of being asked to weigh in on economics, geopolitics, and despair — but she still defends the right of scientists to have strong feelings about the planet.

SOURCES:
- Kate Marvel, climate scientist and science writer.

RESOURCES:
- Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet, by Kate Marvel (2025).
- "Are Americans Concerned About Global Warming?" (Gallup, 2024).
- "Can clouds buy us more time to solve climate change?" by Kate Marvel (TED, 2017).
- SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance, by Stephen Dubner and Steve Levitt (2011).
- "Global Warming’s Six Americas," (Yale Program on Climate Change Communication).
- "Fred Rogers: Look for the Helpers."

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Ep 090: New Street Epistemology Channel | Cordial Curiosity