In June of 2015, the Pope issued a formal report called an encyclical on climate change. Some were puzzled, "they're not a scientist!" they said, "why is a religious leader weighing in on climate change?" Learn why climate change isn't just a scientific issue on this episode of Global Weirding!

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Crazy weather? We see it all the time. Here in Texas, WE GET IT! Hail and haboobs, blizzards and heat waves, tornados and tropical storms. So there's been a lot of extreme weather in the news lately, that doesn't mean anything's different, right? Learn a bit about weather, climate and more on this episode of Global Weirding!

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The world is getting warmer, so what? Sure it matters to the polar bears and maybe some people who live on low lying islands in the South Pacific, but honestly the world's just warmed by a degree celsius or a degree and a half Farenheit. We've weathered far bigger changes than that before, right? Learn more about Global Warming than just polar bears and ice caps on this episode of Global Weirding!

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Scientists are always changing their mind about stuff. One day coffee's good for you, the next day it's bad. We should just wait until they figure out this global warming thing for good before we take it too seriously, right? Learn about the scientific consensus on climate change and how it's become one of the most polarizing political issues in the United States on this episode of Global Weirding!

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Texans don't care about climate change, this state will live and die on fossil fuels, right? Learn a bit about the great state of Texas that might surprise you on this second episode of Global Weirding!

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Global warming... Climate change... Whatever people are calling it these days, it hasn't been around for that long, right? Learn about the history of climate science and how we got to now on this first episode of Global Weirding.

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Regardless of what we might think about climate change, many of us have bought into a very insidious myth about it...

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