Scientists in town for topics cosmic and microscopic

Quoted: “Baum tackled inherently controversial topics – global climate change, for instance, surging population growth, disease, violence and war and the denial of basic human rights,” said ACS president Bassam Shakhashiri, who is a chemistry professor at the University of Wisconsin. Baum will be among the panelists, as well as National Center for Science Education director Eugenie Scott, veteran science journalists Deborah Blum and Tom Siegfried, and Pennsylvania State University climatologist Michael Mann, whose recent book, The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars, recounts his much-attacked research.