Bay Area Skeptics: Climate Change from the Biotic to the Exotic -- Minda Berbeco

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Bay Area Skeptics November SkepTalk:

• How will climate change affect the flavor of wine?

• Are warming oceans responsible for the recent global jellyfish outbreak?

• Do we know how a rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide will affect poison ivy, tobacco, or even sea anemones?

• Science blogger Dr. Minda Berbeco will talk about what the research shows and future questions to be answered.

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Minda Berbeco, Programs & Policy Director, National Center for Science Education, earned her PhD in Biology from Tufts University. She has spent her career investigating the effects of climate change on terrestrial systems. As a science blogger for ScienceBlog.com, she investigates the unexpected and unusual effects of climate change on biological organisms. At NCSE she works to defend science education in the United States.