This is nice to see. The Weidenbaum Center here at Washington University took a lot of money from Exxon during the 1980s and 1990s and participated in Exxon's climate denialist strategies through a number of publications. That may have been illegal, if tied to Exxon's (illegal) obfuscation of what it knew about the climate. While there is room for plausible deniability, the Weidenbaum Center, in effect, was laundering both money and the facts, for Exxon. We'll see how the case unfolds.
So fast forward to today. I suppose it's good to see the Weidenbaum Center sponsoring talks like this. But the Weidenbaum Center (formerly known as the Center for the Study of American Business) did plenty of damage to public knowledge during the Reagan-Bush-Clinton years.
I think the Weidenbaum Center needs to accompany this event with a public apology for its role in the #ExxonKnew scandal, and for the fact that the Weidenbaum Center still has climate science denial publications posted on its website. See my notes here.
So fast forward to today. I suppose it's good to see the Weidenbaum Center sponsoring talks like this. But the Weidenbaum Center (formerly known as the Center for the Study of American Business) did plenty of damage to public knowledge during the Reagan-Bush-Clinton years.
I think the Weidenbaum Center needs to accompany this event with a public apology for its role in the #ExxonKnew scandal, and for the fact that the Weidenbaum Center still has climate science denial publications posted on its website. See my notes here.
Scientific View of Climate Change
(A public lecture)
David Easterling, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
March 28, 2017 - 4:00pm
Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom, Anheuser-Busch Hall, Washington University
Dr. Easterling received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1987 and served as an Assistant Professor in the Climate and Meteorology Program, Department of Geography, Indiana University-Bloomington from 1987 to 1990. In 1990 he moved to the National Climatic Data Center as a research scientist, was appointed Principal Scientist in 1999, and Chief of Scientific Services in 2002. He has authored or co-authored more than sixty research articles in journals such as Science, Nature and the Journal of Climate. Dr. Easterling was also a contributor to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Second and Third Assessment Reports, and is currently a Lead Author for the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. His research interests include the detection of climate change in the observed record, particularly changes in extreme climate events.
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This forum is cosponsored by Washington University's Assembly Series and the International Center for Advanced Renewable Energy and Sustainability (I-CARES).
