High-flying Brendan Borrell gets "creepy" fan mail from "denialists" who don't share his intense fear of a natural trace atmospheric gas

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Sorry for the delayed reply, but I’ve been traveling in one of those spectacular hotspots that is bound to get nailed by climate change — Africa’s Cape Floral Region aka the Fynbos. I’d like to thank Carl for the thoughtful critique, and tell Dr. Don Strong that calling me an “embryonic Lomborg” is a bit of a low blow! Yes, those denialists may be sending me creepy fan mail, but I’m hardly cut from the same cloth.

Some fossil-fueled travels of BRENDAN BORRELL

Whether I’m off to Bolivia -- or the Bronx -- getting out of the office is key to learning the story behind the science. I’ve gone toadbusting in the Kimberleys, hunted for chili peppers in the Chaco, and watched as scientists skimmed bacteria from the surface of a Spanish lake. A day at the American Museum of Natural History taught me the cruelties of taxonomy, and a trip to the New York Botanical Garden introduced me to the butternut squash guru who never finished graduate school
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I’ve got a Ph.D. in biology from Berkeley and wrote for The Oregonian as a AAAS Mass Media Fellow before striking it out on my own. I'm a member of the National Association of Science Writers and Investigative Reporters and Editors. This spring I’m heading to Africa with grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.