20 Facts About Michael Oppenheimer

Michael Oppenheimer was born on February 28,1946 and 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.

Michael Oppenheimer is the Director of the Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment 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.

Michael Oppenheimer co-organized a series of activities that prefigured the emergence of climate change as a top international concern and influenced the development of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Michael Oppenheimer directed climate and air pollution activities at the Environmental Defense Fund when that NGO's science-based and incentive-based approach to climate change was reflected in the language of the Kyoto Protocol.

Michael Oppenheimer has played a significant role within the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, serving as Contributing Author, Lead Author, or Coordinating Lead Author on each assessment report since IPCC's first report, as well as two special reports.

Michael Oppenheimer serves as a Review Editor on the Sixth Assessment Report.

Michael Oppenheimer is a prominent public figure and has discussed various aspects of the impacts of and solutions to climate change and other issues in the media.

Michael Oppenheimer has testified before committees of the US Senate and House of Representatives on numerous occasions.

Michael Oppenheimer has been a guest on many television and radio programs and talk shows, including This Week, The News Hour, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Colbert Report, and 60 Minutes.

Michael Oppenheimer is the author of over 200 articles published in professional journals.

Michael Oppenheimer is the author of Discerning Experts: The Practices of Scientific Assessment for Environmental Policy published in 2019 with several coauthors and Dead Heat: The Race Against The Greenhouse Effect, coauthored with Robert H Boyle and published in 1990.

Michael Oppenheimer is co-founder of the Climate Action Network and has served on many expert panels including the New York City Panel on Climate Change and the US National Academies' Board on Energy and Environmental Systems.

Michael Oppenheimer is a trustee of the NGOs Climate Central and Climate Science Legal Defense Fund.

Michael Oppenheimer was born February 28,1946, in New York City.

Michael Oppenheimer joined the Princeton faculty after more than two decades with the Environmental Defense Fund, a non-governmental, environmental organization, where he served as chief scientist and manager of the Climate and Air Program.

Michael Oppenheimer continues to serve as a science advisor to EDF.

Michael Oppenheimer won the 2010 Heinz Award in the Environment and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Michael Oppenheimer's interests include science and policy of the atmosphere, particularly climate change and its impacts.

Michael Oppenheimer is a long-time participant in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, serving recently as a Coordinating Lead Author of the Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate.

Together with Jessica O'Reilly and Naomi Oreskes, Michael Oppenheimer discussed the way the risk of collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet was assessed in IPCC reports in a Social Studies of Science paper in 2012.