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On this week’s episode of Zona Politics with Jim Nintzel: UA College of Science Dean Joaquin Ruiz stops by lay some science on us about climate change research, space missions, the Biosphere and other cool stuff happening at the UA. Then author and Edible Baja Arizona editor Megan Kimble talks about her new book, Unprocessed: My City-Dwelling Year of Reclaiming Real Food. 

A Zona Politics programming note: We’ve got one more week on KGUN-9. We’re taking a three-week break in July and will be back on Sunday, July 26, in our new 8 a.m. timeslot on the CW Tucson, KWBA-TV. We’ll be airing at 8 a.m. on Channel 8 on your Cox and Comcast systems and 58 on broadcast and DirecTV. And we’ll also be coming your way on KXCI-FM on Sunday afternoons.

This article appears in Jun 18-24, 2015.

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11 replies on “Zona Politics: Climate Change, Space Travel & More with UA College of Science Dean Joaquin Ruiz”

  1. I would love to know more about the actual temperature reductions over the last 15 years. It looks like we have been lied to.

  2. 5th poorest city in the country. Highest violent crime rate in the state.

    See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. The most important priority is to send all white males back to the cave and then extinguish the fire.

  4. July 26 Millions will be out of the streets celebrating 25 years of the signing of the A.D.A (Americans with Disabilty Act),so why don’t you do a story of Tucson version of people celebrating the A.D.A ????

  5. “I would love to know more about the actual temperature reductions over the last 15 years.” — me too, except they haven’t happened.

  7. Instead of citing the Independent, why don’t you just print up a bunch of pamphlets in your mom’s basement? Same journalistic integrity.

  11. I hate to break it to you Peabo and bslap, but it looks like David W may in fact be right:

    The sun has been in a period of high activity for the past few decades. But scientists believe there is now as much as a 20% chance of a weaker period of activity, known as a grand solar minimum, occurring in the next 40 years.

    http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/23/weak-sun-could-offset-some-global-warming-europe-us-study

    Much of it does still seem like “guesswork” as it is impossible to accurately predict what nature will do over an extended period of time.

    Grant writers like to call it science. It’s not.

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