This episode features Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki.
Matthew is a geochemist, and a professor at the University of Alabama.
Before UA Matthew was a post-doctoral research scientist in the Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences and the Institute for Planets and Exoplanets at the University of California, Los Angeles.
He holds a PhD, Geochemistry, from UC Los Angeles; MS in Geochemistry, from UC Los Angeles and a BS, Biochemistry and Cellular Biology, from UC San Diego.
Matthew and Chad talk about DEI and climate alarmism in American academia.
DEI - which stands for diversity, equity, and inclusion - has roots in the 1960s civil rights movement and has grown to include gender, sexual orientation, religion, country of origin, and other identities. Matthew discusses his observations of DEI in academia. Since 2020 DEI has been aggressively pushed into American academia, business and culture. DEI has also entered the environmental movement. While both men support equal rights and social justice, they question the validity of DEI, and consider it a social science experiment.
On the climate, climate change alarmism is a description of the current style of climate scaremongering which stresses the catastrophic effects of global warming.
Dr. Wielicki argues that Earth is a dynamic planet, experiencing constant changes, and he believes that to better understand Earth's dynamic abilities we must better understand the climate, versus blaming global warming on western civilization.
His research interests include conditions of early Earth during the initiation of life; constraining the amount of continental lithosphere through time; understanding the flux and timing of asteroids impacting the Earth-Moon system and the association with major extinction events; and the evolution of the Himalaya and the Tibetan Plateau.
You can follow Matthew on Twitter @MatthewWielicki and at matthewwielicki.com.
Hosted by: Chadwick Hagan
Deep Dive Inside Podcast is a ZMI Arcadia Audio production
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