Andrew Weaver – Canada’s Top Climate Scientist Gets Political

There aren’t many scientists who could or would be considered celebrities – especially here in Canada.  David Suzuki certainly gets a nod, given his decades long access to national television through his CBC series The Nature of Things.  Aside from that though it gets pretty tough.  However, over on beautiful Vancouver Island there lives a distinguished scientist who has just made waves as a result of his recent successful run at becoming a provincial politician.

Ladies and gentleman, if you don’t know Dr. Andrew Weaver yet…you should, and my guess is that at some point, you will.

Widely recognized as Canada’s top Climate Scientist, the tenured professor in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of Victoria has accomplished much over his lengthy scientific career.  Most notably he was one of the contributing scientific authors to the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, and in so doing was one of the reports’ Nobel Prize recipients.  He is the scientific advisor to The Climate Reality Project Canada and has a plethora of titles, published books, papers and global acclaim that has earned him the Order of British Columbia among many other credits.

And as of May 14, 2013, Dr. Weaver is now Canada’s first ever elected provincial politician flying the Green Party banner.

Having been a fan and admirer of Dr. Weaver since 2008 when I first met him during my original training session with Al Gore, Dr. Suzuki and 200 other presenters from the Climate Reality Project Canada, I was excited to get a chance to speak to him on a recent work trip to Victoria, BC.  Despite him being very tired after a long and arduous political campaign, plus the rush of interview requests that followed his historic victory, Dr. Weaver was happy to sit with me for a few minutes on camera to talk about climate change, politics and to offer some advice for the viewers and readers of Envirodad.com.

You can learn more about Andrew Weaver in his new political life by visiting www.andrewjweaver.ca and I want to thank him once again for sitting down for an enjoyable discussion and interview.