Massachusetts Institute of Technology (S.B., Chemistry) University of Chicago (Ph.D, Chemical Physics)
Scientific career
Fields
Geosciences, International Affairs
Institutions
Princeton University
Thesis
Ultraviolet spectra of alkalai halides in inert matrices.(1970)
Doctoral advisor
R. Stephen Berry
Website
Oppenheimer's homepage
Michael Oppenheimer (born February 28, 1946) is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, the Department of Geosciences, and the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University. He is the director of the Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment (C-PREE) at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and Faculty Associate of the Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences Program and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.[1]
Oppenheimer has played a leading role at the interface of science and public policy including influencing the development of the acid rain provisions of the US Clean Air Act. He co-organized a series of activities that prefigured the emergence of climate change as a top international concern and influenced the development of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. He directed climate and air pollution activities at the Environmental Defense Fund when that NGO's science-based and incentive-based approach to climate change was reflected in the language of the Kyoto Protocol. Oppenheimer has played a significant role within the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), serving as Contributing Author, Lead Author, or Coordinating Lead Author on each assessment report since IPCC's first report, as well as two special reports. Oppenheimer also serves as a Review Editor on the Sixth Assessment Report.
Oppenheimer is a prominent public figure and has discussed various aspects of the impacts of and solutions to climate change and other issues in the media. He has testified before committees of the US Senate and House of Representatives on numerous occasions. He has also been a guest on many television and radio programs and talk shows, including This Week, The News Hour, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Colbert Report, and 60 Minutes. Oppenheimer is the author of over 200 articles published in professional journals.
He is the author of Discerning Experts: The Practices of Scientific Assessment for Environmental Policy[2] published in 2019 with several coauthors and Dead Heat: The Race Against The Greenhouse Effect, coauthored with Robert H. Boyle and published in 1990. Oppenheimer is co-founder of the Climate Action Network and has served on many expert panels including the New York City Panel on Climate Change and the US National Academies’ Board on Energy and Environmental Systems. He is a trustee of the NGOs Climate Central and Climate Science Legal Defense Fund. Oppenheimer also serves as co-editor-in-chief of the journal Climatic Change.
Oppenheimer is not related to the nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.[3]
^Princeton University. "Michael Oppenheimer". Retrieved 7 July 2020.
^Oppenheimer, Michael; Oreskes, Naomi; Jamieson, Dale; Brysse, Keynyn; O'Reilly, Jessica; Shindell, Matthew; Wazeck, Milena (2019). Discerning experts : the practices of scientific assessment for environmental policy. The University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226602011. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
^"Michael Oppenheimer and the End of the Climate As You Know It". Princeton Magazine. June 1, 2015. Archived from the original on March 21, 2016. Retrieved July 23, 2023.
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