by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder
As Appearing on The Daily Caller
The two most outspoken Nobel physics prize winners when it comes to the climate controversy are 1997 winner Steven Chu and 2022 winner John Clauser. Which one makes the better case?
Chu was President Obama’s first Secretary of Energy. He won his Nobel for using lasers to trap atoms, work that was unrelated to climate science. Chu started talking about global warming when he became the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 2004.
“For me, it has been a gradual awakening over the last five or six years – a growing realization that global warming is a serious problem. At the Lab, a number of people were increasingly looking at this as one of the major problems that science and technology have to solve. There was already a groundswell, and so when I came in and started talking about it, it wasn’t as though I had to convince a lot of people,” he said.
“There are stronger and stronger indications that global warming is happening, that it’s caused by humans, and its consequences are looking more and more ominous. You can draw a parallel to the early days of [research into] cigarette smoking, the ’50s and ’60s, where scientists said, ‘Hey, there seems to be a link between lung cancer and cigarette smoking,’” he added.
