Our discussion with Zeke Hausfather. Click here for transcription.
At the end of June, we organized the second ARS Live event of this year, a conversation with the Zeke Hausfather climate, which occupies positions with the STRIPE financial services company and at the Berkeley Earth Project, which follows global surface temperatures. We wanted to understand why these temperatures have established extreme records with regularity lately, but we have taken a little detour on the way, asking how he ended up making climate science in the first place.
It turned out to be a very indirect route. He had been a climate activist during his university years and had helped launch some Cleantech startups thereafter. At the time, some of the first bloggers of the academic climate started, and Hausfather found themselves doing small projects with them. Over time, he decided that “my hobby was more fun than my day work”, so he decided to take leave of the business world and obtain a doctorate in climate sciences. From there, he kept his feet in the climate and the commercial worlds.
The conversation then went to the back of the earth’s surface temperatures and the role of Berkeley Earth in the supply of another method of calculating these. Although the temperature recordings have been somewhat controversial in the past, these arguments have largely established themselves, and Berkeley Earth played a major role by helping to show that the temperature recordings have been reliable.
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