“I’d tell them, ‘Yeah, I’m a climate scientist and I want to stop climate change,’” said Ghan, who completed the California segment of the trail in 2018. “But that’s not the way it worked.”AdvertisementSo Ghan bucked tradition and began speaking publicly about the risks of climate change. Many climate scientists now feel the same sense of urgency as they watch their own predictions come to life in the form of extreme fires, storms and heat waves. The feeling among researchers was that “if you start advocating policy that you would compromise your science.”Ultimately, his worries about climate change outweighed his fears of professional fallout. “I’m a human too who is going to be impacted by climate change,” she said.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 17, 2019 15:02 UTC