What's a subject scientists can analyze when they watch the Oscars tonight?If You guessed climate change you'll want to hear from our guest Kate Marvel an associate research scientist at Columbia Universityand a co-host of a very unique podcast that combines cinema with climate science.We've realized that people like science but what people really love is bad movies.And if we can combine science and bad movies then that's really productive.What is Hollywood getting so wrong, especially in science related films?So I'm a climate scientist and so far we've watched I would say three climate science related filmsThe Day After Tomorrow, Sharknado and Geostorm, and all of these are really kind of disaster movies right?There are so many disasters and they're all happening at the same time.But in the real world, climate change is happening, it's happening right now,it's here and it's us but it's not the only thing that people care about.San Francisco, for a little bit, had the worst air quality of any city on the planet.And I think it's starting to hit home that climate change has the ability to reshape our livesin ways that maybe we hadn't really thought about before.So in the background of a movie, the air quality could just be one of the characters that kind of influences itversus a disaster all in one day of an breathable air?Exactly. And you know I don't want to say that climate change isn't causing disasters like we know a scientistthat extreme events like heat waves and floods and droughts are projected to get more intense in the future.
