How to Read Water - Livestream

When a lake turns green, it’s natural to want a simple answer: What caused it, and is it dangerous? Is it because of climate change? The farms? Within hours, the internet usually has a verdict. But lakes are complicated systems, and the first explanation is rarely the whole story. The challenge is knowing which cause (or causes) the evidence supports and where questions remain open.

Join us on as environmental scientist and AquaDiary creator Ally Berry joins host Leighann Lord for a new episode of Skeptical Inquirer Presents on “How to Read Water: The Benefits (and Limits) of Lake Science.” Using harmful algal blooms as a case study, Berry explores when lake science delivers a clean, actionable answer (or several interacting causes) and offers a practical toolkit for weighing claims about water quality and identifying when a tidy story has outrun the data.

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