John Holdren, former Science Advisor to President Obama shares: Insights from Climate Science on Why Wafflers Are Wrong

| January 10, 2020 | Leave a Comment

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Author(s): John Holdren

This lecture discusses

  • Fundamentals of global climate change (CC)
  • Categorizing contrarian confusion-mongering
    • Denial
    • Waffling
    • Surrender
  • Rebutting denial: How we know CC is real
  • Rebutting waffling: How we know CC is urgent
  • Rejecting surrender: How we know addressing CC is worth the effort

 You may find the slides for this lecture by clicking on ‘download’ under the image above. Please contact info@mahbonline.org with any questions. 

John P. Holdren
Teresa & John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy
Kennedy School of Government and Professor of Environmental Science and Policy
Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences
HARVARD UNIVERSITY

President Emeritus and Senior Advisor to the President
WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER
Lecture for the HKS Executive Program on
Climate Change and Energy
Harvard University / 2 October 2018

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