Gewecke draws the connection between a warming atmosphere and a longer allergy season in Missouri with data from Climate Central. “I’ve been fascinated by how asthma and allergies are affected by climate change in our warming world and how it affects different people and different communities,” he says. One of Gewecke’s recent reports tackles climate change’s connections with allergies and asthma. Everything in our natural world is connected some way or another.” Gewecke says, “It’s important for everyone to know that (the climate) affects pretty much everything. His news series, Show Me Climate, explains climate science to viewers and talks about how climate change is affecting Missouri, the Midwest, and the world. Gewecke is one of a growing number of forecasters talking about climate change on local news. But the meteorologist says he must present the facts of climate change to his audience. A lot of (journalists and meteorologists) are scared that they’ll start getting hate mail and they’ll start losing viewers because they’re talking about climate science,” Gewecke explains. In TV news, reporting on climate science is often seen as taboo. I can give them facts that they’re not getting anywhere else,” Gewecke explains. “A meteorologist on air is one of the only scientists that people ‘know.’ I’m probably the closest thing to a scientist that people regularly hear from. He knows most viewers are probably not exposed to science in their daily lives. He takes his job as a scientist more seriously. Kenton Gewecke, a meteorologist at KOMU in Columbia, Mo., isn’t just a local weather oracle. Kenton graduated from the University of Missouri with a Bachelor’s of Science in Atmospheric Sciences
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