Ask Sam: Spice Must Flow

Are snow-making machines an example of climate adaptation, or an example of an emissions feedback loop? Does the fire risk posed by planting trees outweigh the benefits of their use as a carbon sink? Can the team talk big planet problems and still leave room for bad puns? We’ll answer these questions and more climate queries on this special edition of Ask Sam.

Ask Sam Panel includes producer Felix Poon, and NHPR reporter Annie Ropeik.

Featuring Kasey Bolles, John Nielsen-Gammon, Marisa Flores Gonzalez, Teresa Lutes, Jigar Shah, and S. Yoshi Maezumi.

Check out NHPR’s new climate project, By Degrees, here.

Photo credits: https://bit.ly/335nYlI, https://bit.ly/30aCV3U, https://bit.ly/3hRE06W

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Credits

Outside/In was produced this week by Sam Evans-Brown and Taylor Quimby, with Felix Poon, Annie Ropeik, and Justine Paradis.

Erika Janik is our executive producer.

Our theme music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.

The Ask Sam theme is by Taylor Quimby

If you’ve got a question for our Ask Sam hotline, give us a call! We’re always looking for rabbit holes to dive down into. Leave us a voicemail at: 1-844-GO-OTTER (844-466-8837). Don’t forget to leave a number so we can call you back.