Michael Oppenheimer Quotes


Climate change is here. We have to learn how to deal with it.


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Michael Oppenheimer, Environmental Scientist, Member, U.N. Climate Change Panel, One of the scientists sharing the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, PBS News Hour, October 12, 2007

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Michael Oppenheimer
Michael Oppenheimer
  • Born: February 28, 1946
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Professor Geosciences International Affairs

Michael Oppenheimer 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 Princeton 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.