Michael Oppenheimer

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Michael Oppenheimer
Born (1946-02-28) February 28, 1946 (age 78)
Geosciences, International Affairs
InstitutionsPrinceton University
ThesisUltraviolet spectra of alkalai halides in inert matrices. (1970)
Doctoral advisorR. Stephen Berry
WebsiteOppenheimer'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

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

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

Climatic Change
.

Oppenheimer is not related to the nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.[3]

Background

Oppenheimer was born February 28, 1946, in New York City.

He received an S.B. in chemistry from MIT, a Ph.D. in chemical physics from the

Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
.

He joined the Princeton faculty after more than two decades with the

Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian and lecturer on astronomy at Harvard University
.

He continues to serve as a science advisor to EDF.

Oppenheimer won the 2010

Heinz Award in the Environment [4] and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[1]

Research interests

His interests include science and policy of the atmosphere, particularly

ice sheets and sea level, and on patterns of human migration.[1] He has assessed linkages among climate change, crop yields and Mexico–US cross-border migration.[5][6] Oppenheimer studies the process of scientific learning and scientific assessments and their role in influencing public policies to respond to global change.[7]

Role in global science policy

Oppenheimer is a long-time participant in the

1992 Earth Summit) and the Kyoto Protocol. During that period, he co-founded the Climate Action Network. His research and advocacy work on acid rain also contributed to the passage of the 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act and influenced the development of the Kyoto Protocol
.

Assessment of the IPCC process

In 2007, he wrote about limitations of the IPCC consensus approach in Science Magazine.

InterAcademy Panel
IAC 2010 IPCC review.

Together with Jessica O'Reilly and Naomi Oreskes, Oppenheimer discussed the way the risk of collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet was assessed in IPCC reports in a Social Studies of Science paper in 2012. The authors cited the changes of IPCC chairpersons, authors teams, and chapter organization as reasons for an incomplete assessment of the ice sheet and resulting confusion among stakeholders.[9] Oppenheimer and coauthors pursued the theme of treatment of uncertainty in assessments in subsequent papers, particularly Climate change prediction: erring on the side of least drama? [10] (2013) and in the 2019 book, Discerning Experts: The Practice of Scientific Assessment for Environmental Policy.[2] The latter reports the results of the first phase of an ongoing ethnographic study of many assessments that includes, in its subsequent phases, direct observation of parts of IPCC author meetings and consensus panels of the US National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences.

Recent awards and honors

Selected publications

Overview of publications at Google Scholar

References

  1. ^ a b c Princeton University. "Michael Oppenheimer". Retrieved 7 July 2020.
  2. ^
    ISBN 9780226602011
    . Retrieved 7 July 2020.
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ a b "The Heinz Awards: Michael Oppenheimer". The Heinz Awards. Retrieved August 26, 2016.
  5. PMID 20660749
    .
  6. PMID 22908301
    .
  7. ^
    S2CID 129837694
    .
  8. ^
    doi:10.1007/s10584-011-0176-8
    .
  9. S2CID 33619256
    .
  10. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2012.10.008
    . Retrieved 7 July 2020.

External links
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