Kate Marvel

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit heated.world Kate Marvel spent more than a decade at NASA studying the future of life on Earth. Then the Trump administration made that job feel impossible. Marvel, a prominent climate scientist, resigned from NASA last month amid the Trump administration’s sweeping attacks on federal science. Since Trump’s second term started, more than 10,000 federal employees with STEM Ph.D.s have left the government—mostly through layoffs, firings and buyouts—and more than 7,800 research grants were terminated or frozen. In her resignation letter—a masterclass in principled dissent —Marvel wrote that she never expected to voluntarily leave her dream job. However, she wrote, "I’m leaving because I want to tell the truth." In our conversation today, Marvel tells the truth about what’s happening to federal science under the Trump administration. We talk about the work she was doing at NASA before Trump, and why the administration would want to make that work difficult to accomplish. We also talk about one side-effect of Trump’s attack on science that no one is talking about: The loss of nerd culture, and why that culture is important to democracy. Then, for paid subscribers, we keep going into one of the most controversial questions in climate science: geoengineering. We talk about what it means to study technologies that could intentionally alter the climate system, and why the collapse of trusted public science makes those future decisions even more dangerous. We also get into our feelings about the state of federal science, and the strategies we’re deploying to not just cope, but fight back.

In this episode, host Willow Defebaugh is joined by renowned climate scientist and writer Kate Marvel for a conversation about her book, Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet . With poetic insight and scientific precision, Marvel reframes climate change not just as a planetary emergency, but as an emotional experience, one that demands our full humanity. Together, they explore how feelings like wonder, anger, grief, and love can become tools for engagement rather than paralysis, and what it means to hold both scientific truth and emotional complexity in a time of profound transformation. For more about Kate Marvel and her book Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet: https://www.marvelclimate.com/ On Climate Science: https://atmos.earth/ecological-wisdom/the-emotional-whiplash-of-a-climate-scientist/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

When Kate Marvel set out to write a book on climate change, she wanted to expand the conversation beyond data, charts and graphs. This meant refocusing the topic on nine human emotions: wonder, anger, guilt, fear, grief, surprise, pride, hope and love. In this TED Talks Daily Book Club interview, host Elise Hu speaks with Kate about her new book, Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet — and why it’s not too late to save the planet. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The new book, " Human Nature " by climate scientist Kate Marvel is, in a sense, a whole new genre, for in it Marvel explores the feelings of a climate scientist, and from it we learn that they are just like us with emotions ranging across the entire arc of human feelings. Marvel talks about her new book with Columbia University's Andre Revkin, who is one of America’s most honoured and experienced environmental journalists and the founding director of the new Initiative on Communication and Sustainability at Columbia University's Earth Institute. At Columbia, he is building programs, courses, tools and collaborations bridging communication gaps between science and society to cut climate risk and boost social and environmental resilience. Kate can also be found on TEDx talking about " Can clouds buy us more time to solve climate change?" . Her book, to give it the full title is " Human Nature: nine ways to feel about our changing planet ".

Episode 316 “All of the other planets out there are just complete garbage. The Earth is the only good place.” – Kate Marvel The climate crisis can leave many of us feeling hopeless and overwhelmed. But, as climate scientists Kate Marvel and Tim Lenton say, there are many reasons to be optimistic.Both have new books out that hope to reframe the way we think about the issue. Kate’s book Human Nature grapples with the complicated emotions that the climate crisis evokes, from anger to hope and love – and explores how we can harness each of them to fight for a better future. Tim’s book Positive Tipping Points looks at the possibility that we may cause irreversible damage to the Earth’s climate system, from Amazon dieback to ice sheet collapse. But as the name suggests, he also examines the opportunities in leveraging global action against climate change to create “positive tipping points”. Chapters: (0:00) Intro (01:26) Why Tim and Kate have dedicated their lives to climate science (3:53) Exploring Kate’s book Human Nature - starting with anger (6:33) How Tim channels his climate anger (10:16) Processing the 9 emotions of Kate’s book (13:10) What are negative tipping points? (15:33) How to use positive tipping points (21:13) Where can we find hope for change right now? (23:16) The positive emotions that inspire climate action (26:50) Kate’s process of writing (29:52) Why non-violent campaigns are so effective (35:19) Have we seen any of these positive tipping points yet? (39:31) How Americans really feel about climate change (40:46) Kate and Tim’s dream outcomes for their books Hosted by Rowan Hooper and Madeleine Cuff, with guests Kate Marvel and Tim Lenton. To read more about these stories, visit https://www.newscientist.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Dr. Kate Marvel, author of Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet, is on the show to discuss the complex ways she processes varying emotions while studying climate change and thinking about this planetary crisis. Marvel talks about her journey from a high school student disinterested in science to studying cosmology to eventually becoming a leading climate scientist. She explains why she's inspired by this work and the people that do it. We talk about the creative and fun aspects of working with climate models, some of the certainities and uncertainites that come with any scientific exploration, and what scares her most about climate change. Marvel shares some of the deep emotions that are evoked by everyday climate science and the importance of the narratives we tell living through this crisis. We also explore what it's like for climate science and scientists to be attacked, ignored, and/or belittled, and why it's critical to appreciate the amazing contributions we've received from years of hardworking scientists studying this issue. Dr. Kate Marvel is one of the world's best-known climate scientists working today. She received a PhD in theoretical physics from Cambridge University, led the "Climate Trends" chapter in the U.S. Fifth National Climate Assessment, and has both given a TED Talk and testified before the U.S. Congress! She has written for Scientific American , Nautilus magazine, and the On Being Project. Read Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to our newsletter/podcast, The Climate Weekly , to help support this show. Your contributions will make the continuation of this show possible. Our music is "Gotta Get Up" by The Passion Hifi, check out his music at thepassionhifi.com. Rate, review and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes , Spotify , and more! Subscribe to our YouTube channel. Other stuff referenced in this episode: The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s from the Village Voice

In this episode of Library Talks , author and climate scientist Kate Marvel explores her latest book, Human Nature, with David Wallace-Wells, Monica Youn, and Lauren Kurtz through talks, performances, and more Each chapter of Kate Marvel's new book, Human Nature , employs a different emotion to explore the science and stories behind climate change. Kate Marvel shares some of the hope, heartbreak, and humor that she uses to help readers confront the questions about what future lies ahead and how we can help shape it.

Here’s my Sustain What conversation with Kate Marvel , a prominent climate scientist and communicator whose first book, Human Nature - Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet , is a bracing and deeply personal tour of climate science, planetary history and the array of hopeful and/or heartbreaking environmental futures ahead, depending on choices made or avoided now. Thank you, Matt Burgess and cliff Krolick , for being among subscribers who watched live on Substack. Please subscribe to catch future episodes and share this post. Marvel and I explored the book’s nine chapters, and feelings. You can see three highlights below but please do watch and share the conversation here or on n Facebook , LinkedIn , or YouTube . I love how she emphasizes the importance for scientists (and I’d argue for all of us) to recognize your emotional reactions to grand challenges like human-driven climate change as well as the facts and enduring questions: I think we should be as honest about observing and documenting our emotions as we are about measuring rainfall or soil moisture. Pretending we feel nothing about our changing world doesn’t make us objective. It makes us liars. Here are three highlights: What really scares Marvel isn’t the physics: So there's all this stuff that physics gives us to be afraid of, right? These big monsters that are coming for us in the future. But the thing that scares me the most is that climate change happens in the world that we've built for it. And it happens in this sort of deeply unequal world that is not governed in an optimal way. And so there's this notion that, oh, we'll just adapt. And there's no just about adaptation. But the notion that all decisions will be made in an equitable manner by looking soberly at the best available science, I just don't think that that is supported by either current events or the historical record. And so, you know, the thing that I am the most frightened about when it comes to climate change is what it's going to make us do to each other. I couldn’t agree more. I wrote about “the scariest science” and the climate justice gap awhile back: Here’s Marvel on avoiding misconceptions about public attitudes on climate change: The vast majority of people are either totally freaked out or at least concerned. Another aspect of the polling is that most people wildly underestimate how much other people care about climate change. So most people say, I am very, very worried, but nobody else is. And then if you start talking about it, you realize that, oh, everybody feels the same way as me. And the hardcore deniers, that's like a tiny single digit fraction of the population. Marvel says use your own reactions to being badgered to gauge how to talk to others about climate or other fraught issues: I haven't studied climate communication, but I know what doesn't work on me personally. I don't like being scolded. I don't like being shamed. And I don't like being told that there's nothing I can do. And just for me personally, I tend to shut down. But if I'm if I'm engaged with, like, did you know that the water on Earth is older than the sun? You know, that's a great in to people because everybody is amazed by some aspect of the planet that we live on. And if you talk about, hey, did you know that there's a way to keep your house hot

Today is publication day for our favorite climate scientist. Dr. Kate Marvel wrote a book called Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet . Kate is a researcher at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (one of the world’s leading research centers), where she specializes in climate modeling. Although, given the various infuriating, retrograde, anti-climate science shenanigans of the Trump administration 😤, who knows how much longer that will remain the case... I wrote a blurb for the back cover of Human Nature : “This is the best climate book I’ve ever read. It’s magnificent—both planetary and personal, saturated with electric metaphors, incisive vignettes, legitimately funny jokes, and an unflappable, knowing love for Earth, our home.” Which is to say, buy this book and enjoy this conversation with Dr. Marvel: her science origin story, what her book is all about, how climate science is under attack by the Trump administration — and what that means for Kate’s work, and all of us. Kate’s CALLS TO ACTION * Stand up for our ability to understand the Earth, aka climate research . Call your representatives and senators. Call your mom and tell her to call her reps and senators. * Learn a bit more about climate science. Mentioned in this episode * Alarmed by Trump Cuts, Scientists Are Talking Science. For 100 Hours . covered by New York Times * Goddard Institute for Space Studies * Why Is NASA Shuttering This Iconic Institute in New York City? * Kate’s book: Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet * Dance Your Ph.D. contest Credits: This episode was made possible with the support of Future Being , a grantmaking and special projects studio which supports the healing of our planet and the safeguarding of biological and cultural diversity. This show is produced and edited by Matthew Nelson/ Stramash Media and me (Ayana), with help from Jenisha Shrestha. And many thanks to our guest Dr. Kate Marvel. Get full access to WHAT IF WE GET IT RIGHT? at ayanaelizabeth.substack.com/subscribe

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/79688 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Human Nature Author: Kate Marvel Narrator: Courtney Patterson Format: mp3 Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins Release date: 06-17-25 Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 4 ratings Genres: Politics & Government Publisher's Summary: Human Nature is a deeply felt inquiry into our rapidly changing Earth. In each chapter, Marvel uses a different emotion to explore the science and stories behind climate change. As expected, there is anger, fear, and grief—but also wonder, hope, and love. With her singular voice, Marvel takes us on a soaring journey, one filled with mythology, physics, witchcraft, bad movies, volcanoes, Roman emperors, sequoia groves, and the many small miracles of nature we usually take for granted.

In this episode, we interview the amazing Dr Kate Marvel. We cover her background from drama to physicist to climate modeler and travel back in time to discuss how fear of the changing climate gave rise to witchcraft and religious phenomena. We finish with the present-day and future climate, including the role of fear but also courage, hope and above all, love. Kate is an Associate Research Scientist at Columbia University and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. She has appeared on numerous podcasts and TV shows, as she famously gave a Ted Talk in 2017 discussing Can clouds save us from Climate Change? Pre-order her new book, Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet now!! See below: https://a.co/d/etDAhns As always, follow us on Instagram and TikToK @coepod and X@thecoepod.

What can the climate on Venus tell us about Earth? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice answer questions about climate modeling, the state of climate change, and future predictions with climate scientist, Kate Marvel. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://startalkmedia.com/show/cosmic-queries-predicting-earths-climate-future-with-kate-marvel-phd/ Photo Credit: Buiobuione, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commo Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of StarTalk Radio ad-free and a whole week early. Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus .