Cliff Mass to Speak at Mullis Center

Weather expert and radio personality Cliff Mass will discuss global warming, the media and coal trains – Contributed photo

This story has been updated: Cliff will speak at 6:30 pm (not 6:00 pm)

San Juan Island Library announced that Cliff Mass, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington will speak at the Mullis Center on Tuesday, July 22 at 6:30pm. The program will be free to the public. As a blogger and radio commentator, he speaks about weather science in language the public can understand. Mass is making a return visit to Friday Harbor to talk about 3 hot topics in the news today. His talk will examine how global warming, the media and coals trains influence each other, and provide a factual basis thinking about these issues. He combines his expert knowledge with an entertaining personality.

“Global warming is a serious problem that requires immediate attention, but there are two serious problems: (1) the media and politicians are not giving an accurate description of the current and future impacts of increasing greenhouse gases and (2) mankind is not doing enough to mitigate the future warming,” Mass says. This talk will discuss these issues, examine how they influence each other, and provide a factual basis for dealing with this environmental threat.

Mass and his students have systematically studied the weather of the western U.S., completing over seventy papers on West Coast phenomena such as coastal surges and the Puget Sound convergence zone. He has been involved in a number of initiatives, including the acquisition of coastal radar on the Washington coast and the use of smartphone pressure observations for weather prediction. He is the author of the 2008 book “The Weather of the Pacific Northwest.”

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