Chris Martz, MU Meteorology ‘25

Chuck Yates Needs A Job

Chris has been absolutely blowing up X (Twitter) educating the world on how climate actually works. So I had to have him on. We chatted how good our historical temperature data really is, how good the more recent data and climate models, and what we can actually prove in laboratory. Needless to say Chris doesn’t think the world is ending anytime soon if the climate is changing a little bit.

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0:00 - Intro
1:47 - Who is Chris Martz
5:15 - What got Chris interested in weather
6:32 - What got Chris interested in climate
8:56 - Chris's mentors: Joe Bastardi and Tony Heller
14:20 - Proxy data
18:02 - Confidence in extrapolation
19:24 - Isotherm maps
21:30 - Hockey stick graph
25:34 - Quality of temperature data over the last 150 years
29:00 - Satellite data
30:35 - Instrumental data
34:50 - Time of observation bias
36:55 - HaCRUT data
40:00 - How can we test the CO2 warming effect in a lab
46:17 - Does CO2 cause warming
50:00 - How to change people’s minds
52:04 - What do we do to get a more fair and accurate discussion
55:36 - You can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into
1:00:00 - Factfulness
1:04:09 - Book recommendation: Factfulness
1:04:20 - How to change minds
1:09:05 - Invite to Houston

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