Javier Vinós: Solving the Climate Puzzle | Tom Nelson Pod #178
- Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. School of Medicine. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)
- Postdoctoral researcher at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Biology, University of California, San Diego (USA)
- Associate Researcher at the Medical Research Center, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge (UK)
- Staff Researcher at the Spanish Council for Scientific Research
- Topics of research: molecular genetics, neurobiology, and cancer
- Over 1200 scientific citations
- Currently unaffiliated with academic institutions
00:00 Introduction and Background
00:05 The Role of a Molecular Biologist in Climate Science
02:37 The Scientific Method and Climate Science
03:24 Understanding Albedo and Heat Transport
07:55 The Greenhouse Effect and CO2
13:27 The Influence of Solar Activity on Climate
28:48 The Role of Water Vapor and Volcanic Eruptions
33:05 Concluding Remarks and Future Implications
Author of the Nov. 2023 book: “Solving the Climate Puzzle”: https://a.co/d/fsIts54
Author of the 2022 book: “Climate of the Past, Present and Future. A scientific debate, 2nd ed.”: https://www.amazon.com/Climate-Past-Present-Future-scientific-ebook/dp/B0BCF5BLQ5/
More of Javier’s work on Andy May’s site: https://andymaypetrophysicist.com/
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