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The Realities of Climate and Energy
Prof. Steven Koonin, New York University
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Abstract: Wise policies will balance the certainties and uncertainties of a changing climate against the world’s growing demand for reliable and affordable energy. I will describe the scientific, technological, and societal realities that should be informing those policies.
About Prof. Steven Koonin
Steven Koonin is a University Professor at NYU. He previously served as Under Secretary for Science at the U.S. Department of Energy (2009-2011), as Chief Scientist for BP (2004-2009) moving the firm into renewable energy, and as a professor at Caltech (1975 – 2004, the last nine years as the Institute’s Vice President and Provost). Koonin is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the JASON group of government advisors, a Governor of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, and a Trustee of the Institute for Defense Analyses. He holds a BS in physics from Caltech and a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from MIT. He wrote the 2021 bestseller Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters.
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