Navigating Climate Challenges and Solutions feat. Sylvia Dee

With climate, the present is connected to both the past and the future.  Historical data from paleoclimatology holds insights that can inform our understanding of future risks, and using AI in climate modeling may be the key to linking the two.  Sylvia Dee is an assistant professor and climate scientist at Rice University specializing in climate change and the past, present, and future of Earth’s hydrological cycle. Sylvia’s research focuses on how Earth’s modes of natural variability, like El Niño and La Niña events, compound with climate change to alter the characteristics of weather and climate extremes, such as flooding hazard on the Mississippi River. Her lab evaluates climate model data to understand future risks to human and natural systems. David dives into Sylvia's background, her research on paleoclimatology, and the application of historical climate data to predict future climate scenarios. They also discuss the sources of carbon emissions, and extreme weather events like hurricanes and floods, and is a good discussion of the science behind the issues presented in an extremely accessible way. Let us know you’re listening by filling out this form. We will be sending listeners Beyond the Hedges Swag every month.