The Realities of Climate and Energy
The Realities of Climate and Energy
About the Webinar
Wise policies will balance the certainties and uncertainties of a changing climate against the world’s growing demand for reliable and affordable energy. Dr. Steven Koonin will describe the scientific, technological, and societal realities that should be informing those policies.
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About the Speaker
Dr. Steven Koonin
Steven Koonin, a professor at NYU, has served as the DOE’s Under Secretary for Science, as Chief Scientist for BP, and as professor and provost at Caltech. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a senior fellow of Stanford’s Hoover Institution. Koonin holds a BS in physics from Caltech and a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from MIT. He wrote the recent bestseller Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters.