Just 5 questions: Talking the talk

NASA climatologist Gavin Schmidt, from the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, has become one of the oft-heard voices in the public discussion about climate change. With colleagues, he launched the blog RealClimate about six years ago. Its focus on the facts — and confronting the spin — about climate science have made it an online draw. But, Schmidt wouldn't mind seeing more scientists follow the RealClimate lead. He sat on a panel about communicating climate recently at the Washington, D.C., annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and afterward sat down to discuss the ins and outs of talking about climate change.

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