The Zelig of Science Journalism

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By Keith Kloor
May 12, 2011 2:04 AMNov 20, 2019 5:42 AM

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If you read Andy Revkin's dispatch from this one-day conference in London on the Anthropocene concept, you'll discover:

I'm attending because of a quirky role I played almost 20 years ago in laying the groundwork for this concept of humans as a geological force.

I'm starting to think Andy is the Zelig of the environmental and climate science world. Except Andy is real, and so are his accomplishments! Still, how does he show up everywhere?

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