How Geography Can Make Climate Science More Just (Jan 1, 2023)

Scientists are trained to cultivate intellectual distance from their topics. Physical geographers and climate scientists, like myself, are no exception. We have historically treated the climate as if it were a complex phenomenon that functions on its own—largely beyond human control—and with a variability that we can objectively measure, describe, and analyze. We have studied how a changing climate affects human comfort and survival, and we have analyzed it to prepare for droughts, floods, and the like. But rarely have we reduced our separation and considered more deeply the human causes—and impacts—of the changes we observe.

This is an interview given to the ESRI’s ArcNews.