Via: CentreDaily.com

SAN JOSE, Calif. - David Kroodsma - an Ultimate Frisbee-playing, climate-studying scientist - is out to improve the world, one bike ride at a time.

On Saturday, Kroodsma will climb on his modified bike and begin cycling from Palo Alto, Calif., down the length of the state, then pass the dusty colonias of the Baja peninsula. He’ll push on through Mexico, Central and South America, ending, an exhausting 14 months and 13,000 miles later, at the southern tip of Argentina.

Along the way, the 26-year-old will talk with students, scientists and anyone else willing to listen about global warming and how our reliance on cars and an electrified life is altering the earth’s climate.

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