We are doing an event at Climate Week NYC this year, and looking for ideas for speakers that have insights to share from their climate work/research/activism efforts. We are interested in technical perspectives, activist perspectives, policy perspectives, all of it. The positive, the critical. We have a preference for diverse speakers. Who should we reach out to?
1. Steven Koonin - professor at NYU, Under Secretary for Science at the U.S. Department of Energy in the Obama administration.
2. Michael Shellenberger - an author and journalist who writes about politics, the environment, climate change, and nuclear power. He is a co-founder of the Breakthrough Institute and the California Peace Coalition.
3. John Clauser - Nobel prize in Physics (2022) and Wolf prize in physics (2010) recipient.
4. Judith Curry - President of Climate Forecast Applications Network (CFAN) and former professor and Chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Tech.
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Mining magnate and climate activist .. with a marine ecology doctorate.
Not a lot of them in the world.
Builds big solar farms, develops giant electric trains, savagely critical of oil and gas extractors hiding behind carbon sequestation theatre.
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2. Michael Shellenberger - an author and journalist who writes about politics, the environment, climate change, and nuclear power. He is a co-founder of the Breakthrough Institute and the California Peace Coalition.
3. John Clauser - Nobel prize in Physics (2022) and Wolf prize in physics (2010) recipient.
4. Judith Curry - President of Climate Forecast Applications Network (CFAN) and former professor and Chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Tech.