Dr. Reese Halter on global warming and why you should care about bark beetles, forests and honeybees
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Dr. Reese Halter
In this episode of If You Love This Planet, Dr. Caldicott talks with conservation biologist Dr. Reese Halter.
Dr. Reese, as he is known, is a distinguished biologist who describes himself as an “Earth Doctor.” For more that 20 years, Dr. Reese has studied nature in both hemispheres. He currently teaches at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, California. Dr. Reese founded Global Forest Science, a conservation institute which educates children about ecology. He is also a broadcaster and author of seven books including The Insatiable Bark Beetle (2011) and The Incomparable Honeybee (2010). Watch a short video trailer about the bark beetle book. Read the Sierra Club magazine’s review of the book here. Dr. Reese and Dr. Caldicott look at the importance of forests in reducing global warming, and how trees are increasing dying from bark beetle infestations caused by higher temperatures. They also address why our survival depends on saving endangered bees. For background, read Dr. Reese’s January 6 article Climate change and bark beetles equal billions of dead trees. Also read Dr. Reese’s January 2012 article Bark beetles, climate change and our future and his December 2011 article The beauty of bees. And read his January 12 article Nature Unleashed: Wild Weather January 2012. Check out drreese.com to read more articles by Dr. Reese and locate other resources. See the January 3 news article Deadly parasite turns Bay Area honeybees into zombie slaves. Also be sure to listen to Dr. Caldicott’s 2010 conversation with Dr. Reese., and read and circulate the seminal report Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy, which Dr. Caldicott mentions in the program.