Who should we invite to talk on AI and Climate?
airtable.comWe 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?
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...
NPC 2024: https://www.npc.org.au/speaker/2024/1287-dr-andrew-forrest-a...
Thank you, will try!
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.
Thanks this is an incredible list.