{"id":21462,"date":"2015-08-31T10:40:33","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T15:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=21462"},"modified":"2015-08-31T10:40:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T15:40:33","slug":"interview-with-john-abraham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/31\/interview-with-john-abraham\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with John Abraham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stthomas.edu\/engineering\/faculty\/john-p-abraham.html\">John Abraham<\/a> is a scientist at St Thomas University in the Twin Cities. John is famous for <a href=\"http:\/\/static.stthomas.edu\/jpabraham\/?utm_source=ustredirect&#038;utm_medium=Vanity&#038;utm_campaign=Abraham%20Presentation\">doing battle with a famous science denialist<\/a> (that&#8217;s what the meme above refers to), for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/john-abraham\">his blog at the Guardian<\/a>, for his research in several areas such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/climate-consensus-97-per-cent\/2015\/jul\/20\/oceans-warming-faster-than-climate-models-predicted\">ocean heat<\/a>, and for keeping track of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/climate-consensus-97-per-cent\/2015\/jun\/15\/the-latest-global-temperature-data-are-breaking-records\"> month by month increases in global surface heat<\/a> caused by anthropogenic global warming.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, I had the honor of interviewing John Abraham about current developments in climate change.  It was Sunday morning so you were probably either sleeping or in church, but don&#8217;t worry, there&#8217;s a podcast!<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the podcast here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<audio src=\"http:\/\/mnatheists.org\/media\/radioshow\/Atheists_Talk-0328-20150830.mp3\" id=\"player-338\" height=\"30\" width=\"400\" style=\"\" controls=\"controls\" preload=\"none\"><\/audio><br \/><script>\n                var player = new MediaElementPlayer('#player-338');\n            <\/script><\/p>\n<p>Or <a href=\"http:\/\/mnatheists.org\/news-and-media\/podcast\/1077-climate-consensus-john-abraham-on-atheists-talk-328-august-30-2015\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a partial list of other Atheist Talk interviews I&#8217;ve done, in case you were looking to spend several hours listening to me asking interesting people questions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mnatheists.org\/news-and-media\/podcast\/1076-food-supply-failure-emily-cassidy-on-atheists-talk-327-august-23-2015\">Emily Cassidy <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mnatheists.org\/news-and-media\/podcast\/1061-science-debate-in-2016-sheril-kirshenbaum-on-atheists-talk-317-june-14-2015\">Sheril Kirshenbaum<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mnatheists.org\/news-and-media\/podcast\/1044-gmo-revisited-anastasia-bodnar-and-greg-laden-on-atheists-talk-307-march-22-2015\">Anastasia Bodnar<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mnatheists.org\/news-and-media\/podcast\/1015-sins-of-our-fathers-shawn-lawrence-otto-on-atheists-talk-290-november-23-2014\">Shawn Lawrence Otto on &#8220;Sins of Our Fathers&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mnatheists.org\/news-and-media\/podcast\/1001-the-hockey-stick-and-the-climate-wars-michael-mann-on-atheists-talk-284-october-05-2014\">Michael Mann<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mnatheists.org\/news-and-media\/podcast\/974-communicating-climate-change-paul-douglas-on-atheists-talk-269-may-25-2014\">Paul Douglas<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mnatheists.org\/news-and-media\/podcast\/905-ipcc5\">Me talking about the 5th IPCC report (Interviewed by Stephanie Zvan)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mnatheists.org\/news-and-media\/podcast\/850-greg-laden-climate-denialism\">Me talking about science denialism (Interviewed by Stephanie Zvan)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mnatheists.org\/news-and-media\/podcast\/735-human-evolution-john-hawks-on-atheists-talk-164-sunday-april-22nd-2012\">John Hawks<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mnatheists.org\/news-and-media\/news\/8-local-news\/711-january-meeting-greg-laden\">Shawn Lawrence Otto on Science Policy<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mnatheists.org\/news-and-media\/podcast\/675-shawn-otto\">Shawn Lawrence Otto on his book &#8220;Fool Me Twice.&#8221; <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mnatheists.org\/news-and-media\/podcast\/655-donald-prothero-on-atheists-talk-136-sunday-october-9-2011\">Don Prothero<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mnatheists.org\/news-and-media\/podcast\/633-the-science-of-global-warming-science-v-denialism-on-atheists-talk-126-july\">Me, John Abraham and Kevin Zelnio talking about climate change<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mnatheists.org\/news-and-media\/podcast\/606-skeptically-speaking-desiree-schell-and-greg-laden-on-atheists-talk-118-june-5-2011\">Me and Desiree Schell talking about skepticism<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mnatheists.org\/news-and-media\/podcast\/576-qill-take-sweden-ja-jaq-martin-rundkvist-and-yusie-chou-on-atheists-talk-111-april-10-2011\">Martin Rundkvist and Yusie Chou<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mnatheists.org\/news-and-media\/podcast\/571-qscience-communicationq-with-neil-degrasse-tyson-on-atheists-talk-110-april-3-2011\">Neil deGrasse Tyson<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mnatheists.org\/news-and-media\/podcast\/559-qzebrafish-and-dictionary-atheismq-pz-myers-and-greg-laden-on-atheists-talk-104-february-20-2011\">Me and PZ Myers talking about controversy<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mnatheists.org\/news-and-media\/podcast\/538-qscience-and-reason-2011-future-watchq-on-atheists-talk-98-january-2-2011\">Me, Maggie Koerth-Baker, Steve Borsch, Will Steeger and Lynn Fellman<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mnatheists.org\/news-and-media\/podcast\/609-look-at-all-the-crazy-preachers-ed-brayton-on-atheists-talk-119-june-12-2011\">Ed Brayton<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mnatheists.org\/news-and-media\/podcast\/479-qold-bones-and-modern-geneticsq-greg-laden-lynn-fellman-atheists-talk-79-august-15-2010\">Lynn Fellman and me talking about fossil hominins<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mnatheists.org\/news-and-media\/podcast\/356-greg-laden-qmissionaries-in-africaq-on-atheists-talk-0076-sunday-june-28-2009\">Me talking about missionaries (Interviewed by Mike Haubrich)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mnatheists.org\/news-and-media\/podcast\/322-ncse-genie-scott-and-greg-laden-on-atheists-talk-68-sunday-may-3-2009\">Me and Genie Scott talking about creationism (interviewed by Mike Haubrich)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mnatheists.org\/news-and-media\/podcast\/159-greg-laden-on-food-and-evolution-and-john-coy-on-box-out-atheists-talk-032-aug-17-2008\">Me talking about the evolution of the human diet<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mnatheists.org\/news-and-media\/podcast\/118-lois-shadewald-on-pseudoscience-and-greg-laden-on-academic-freedom-atheists-talk-017-may-4-2008\">Me talking about academic freedom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Abraham is a scientist at St Thomas University in the Twin Cities. John is famous for doing battle with a famous science denialist (that&#8217;s what the meme above refers to), for his blog at the Guardian, for his research in several areas such as ocean heat, and for keeping track of month by month &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/31\/interview-with-john-abraham\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Interview with John Abraham<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[148,856,728,97,20,2730,2786,2489],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-5Aa","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}