Joan Meiners is a scientist and a journalist. She's currently the climate news and storytelling reporter for the Arizona Republic, and she has a weekly piece that appears each Wednesday on the back of the front page that outlines how our lives are being shaped already by climate change.
But in a recent op-ed, she’s not writing about climate change science or the real ways in which it's changing Arizonans’ lives — she’s writing about the hate mail she gets. And it’s a lot.
But through very scientifically analyzing it, Meiners found it might actually offer some hope.
The Show spoke with her to learn how.