Occam's Razor and Climate Change: How to Explain Climate Change to Non-Scientists

Synopsis

For over a decade I have made a special effort to communicate climate science to groups that are often underserved by the scientific community. I have found that focusing on the history of science and making appeals to logic are very effective ways of engaging some audiences. In this talk, I will walk through this two-pronged approach by discussing how the work of pioneering 19th century physicists like Fourier, Tyndall, and Arrhenius informs much of modern climate science.