The
93rd annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) has
been going on this week in Austin, Texas.
An awards banquet was held Wednesday evening where I received the Award
for Excellence in Science Reporting by a Broadcast Meteorologist. The award was for the pioneering program
Climate Matters which began in July, 2010.
I am the seventh recipient of the award.
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| Climate Matters Page on the WLTX website. Image Credit: WLTX. |
Climate
Matters is a program that attempts to educate viewers about climate change and
how it is already affecting their lives.
Many of the segments are localized to the effects on South Carolina, but
may also apply to other regions. The
reports use only peer-reviewed published work of scientists involved in climate
change research.
However,
let me tell you how this came about. It
started with my own interest in climate change.
I was at a retirement party for Dr. John Carpenter who was in the
Geology Department and longtime director of the Center for Science Education at
the University of South Carolina. During
that party a couple of professors came up to me and ask if I thought climate
change was real. I told them that I
thought it was, but had not really given it much thought.
