for tonight's conversations with great minds i'm joined by dr dr michael mann dr mann is a physicist climatologist and professor is currently a member of the faculty at penn state university is the director of penn state's earth science. system science center so dr mann received his undergraduate degree in physics and applied mathematics from u.c. berkeley and both a master's in physics and a ph d. in geology and geophysics from yale university has received a number of honors and awards including selection by scientific american as one of the fifty leading visionaries in science and technology in two thousand and seven dr mann was a joint recipient of the nobel peace prize is the author of over one hundred fifty peer reviewed publications as well as two books including his latest the hockey stick and the climate wars. dispatches from the front lines command welcome thanks times a pleasure to be here with you thanks for joining us and for writing this brilliant book. before we get into all the science about all of this i'm just curious about you what got you into climate science to be

mann and dr. amoroso answer that, please. and we don't have much time. >> first of all, we are already talking to the cloud providers and some of us are in fact clout providers. so the conversation is well under way. we are very familiar with official pledges, and if you think about it, the term of cloud is a rather generic term that is probably misunderstood. it can mean a number of different things for a different type of customer and so therefore i would say we continue to include them in the conversation as we have everyone else so to speak at the table as partners, and the solutions you are looking for are going to have to be integrated across the white platform so therefore i would say that you would want to keep them in the conversation. >> thank you. >> so, my mother has a pc at home that i am sure is attacking china or something because it's not administered properly and she's got big tower with the verizon, the holding. she doesn't need that. she would be better served to have a cloud provider just take care of all