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We are doing an event at Climate Week NYC this year, and looking for ideas for speakers that have insights to share from their climate work/research/activism ef

We are doing an event at Climate Week NYC this year, and looking for ideas for speakers that have insights to share from their climate work/research/activism efforts. We are interested in technical perspectives, activist perspectives, policy perspectives, all of it. The positive, the critical. We have a preference for diverse speakers. Who should we reach out to?

defrost 2y ago
Andrew Forrest. Unlikely you'd get him unless it fits his schedule but you might get lucky. > We have a preference for diverse speakers. Mining magnate and climate activist .. with a marine ecology doctorate. Not a lot of them in the world. Builds big solar farms, develops giant electric trains, savagely critical of oil and gas extractors hiding behind carbon sequestation theatre. NPC 2021: https://www.npc.org.au/speaker/2021/915-dr-andrew-forrest-ao/ https://www.npc.org.au/speaker/2021/915-dr-andrew-forrest-ao... NPC 2024: https://www.npc.org.au/speaker/2024/1287-dr-andrew-forrest-ao https://www.npc.org.au/speaker/2024/1287-dr-andrew-forrest-a...
- petervandijck 2y ago
  Thank you, will try!
richrichie 2y ago
1. Steven Koonin - professor at NYU, Under Secretary for Science at the U.S. Department of Energy in the Obama administration. 2. Michael Shellenberger - an author and journalist who writes about politics, the environment, climate change, and nuclear power. He is a co-founder of the Breakthrough Institute and the California Peace Coalition. 3. John Clauser - Nobel prize in Physics (2022) and Wolf prize in physics (2010) recipient. 4. Judith Curry - President of Climate Forecast Applications Network (CFAN) and former professor and Chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Tech.
- petervandijck 2y ago
  Thanks this is an incredible list.
- defrost 2y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40111272 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40111272

defrost 2y ago

Andrew Forrest. Unlikely you'd get him unless it fits his schedule but you might get lucky. > We have a preference for diverse speakers. Mining magnate and climate activist .. with a marine ecology doctorate. Not a lot of them in the world. Builds big solar farms, develops giant electric trains, savagely critical of oil and gas extractors hiding behind carbon sequestation theatre. NPC 2021: https://www.npc.org.au/speaker/2021/915-dr-andrew-forrest-ao/ https://www.npc.org.au/speaker/2021/915-dr-andrew-forrest-ao... NPC 2024: https://www.npc.org.au/speaker/2024/1287-dr-andrew-forrest-ao https://www.npc.org.au/speaker/2024/1287-dr-andrew-forrest-a...

petervandijck 2y ago
Thank you, will try!

richrichie 2y ago

1. Steven Koonin - professor at NYU, Under Secretary for Science at the U.S. Department of Energy in the Obama administration. 2. Michael Shellenberger - an author and journalist who writes about politics, the environment, climate change, and nuclear power. He is a co-founder of the Breakthrough Institute and the California Peace Coalition. 3. John Clauser - Nobel prize in Physics (2022) and Wolf prize in physics (2010) recipient. 4. Judith Curry - President of Climate Forecast Applications Network (CFAN) and former professor and Chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Tech.

petervandijck 2y ago
Thanks this is an incredible list.
defrost 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40111272 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40111272