14 Facts About Andrew Dessler

Andrew Emory Dessler was born on 1964 and is a climate scientist.

Andrew Dessler is the Director of the Texas Center for Climate Studies.

Andrew Dessler worked in the energy group at The First Boston Corporation doing mergers and acquisitions analysis in the mid-1980s.

Andrew Dessler left his job as an investment banker on Wall Street in 1988 to go to graduate school in chemistry.

Andrew Dessler served as an editor for the American Geophysical Union Books Board from 1997 to 2002, and an associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research in 2002.

Andrew Dessler served as a Senior Policy Analyst in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy for the last year of the Clinton administration.

Andrew Dessler published a blog for Grist magazine from 2006 to 2009.

Currently, Andrew Dessler is an editor of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society and president-elect of the Global Environmental Change section of the American Geophysical Union.

Andrew Dessler has been consulted by newspapers and has given talks on climate change and government policy.

Andrew Dessler stated that with almost 200 years of study by the scientific community of the climate system a robust understanding has emerged.

Andrew Dessler continued stating, the climate is warming and "humans are now in the driver's seat".

Andrew Dessler had received support from Scott Mandia of the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund, the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Andrew Dessler was described as an avid glider pilot in 2006.

Andrew Dessler is married with two children and lives in College Station, Texas.