Eric Rignot of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab is one of the globe’s most accomplished glacier experts.
In an interview in San Francicso, we asked him for his “elevator pitch” to explain the science of climate change.
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How Climate Scientists Predict the Future
Over the years, scientists have made a lot of predictions about how Earth’s climate is changing, but they don’t just pull those predictions from thin air.
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