Summary: In episode 50 of Forecast, <a href="http://climdyn.usc.edu/People.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Julien Emile-Geay</a> from the University of Southern California calmly presents a somewhat radical world view. Love of jazz as a means of selecting a grad school; universities as revolutionary institutions; pursuit of science as a subversive activity. Even more unusual: considering data and models not as separate entities, but as co-equal, and integral, facets of research into paleoclimate dynamics. For example, Julien is leading efforts on both massive <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201788" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data compilations</a>, and on the massive <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016JD024751/full" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Last Millennium Reanalysis</a>. Progress is coming on many fronts, including ENSO dynamics, the always-controversial topic of solar-climate interactions, and low frequency climate variability — what Julien calls the “bassline of the climate soundtrack”.<br> <br> <br> <a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=http%3A%2F%2Fforecastpod.org%2Findex.php%2F2017%2F07%2F27%2Fbassline-climate-julien-emile-geay%2F&via=MWClimateSci" class="twitter-share-button">Tweet</a><br>
