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Samuel Thernstrom
Resident Fellow, Director of the AEI Press, and Codirector of the AEI Geoengineering Project
RESOURCES
RESEARCH AREAS
- Environment
- Climate change
- Geoengineering (climate engineering)
Contact
E-mail: sthernstrom@aei.org
Phone: 202-862-5870
Fax: 202-862-7178
Assistant: Dan Fichtler
Assistant E-mail: dan.fichtler@aei.org
Assistant Phone: 202-862-5941
Biography
Samuel Thernstrom has studied and written about environmental issues for twenty years, with a particular emphasis on global climate change. He served on the White House Council on Environmental Quality prior to joining AEI in 2003. As codirector of the AEI Geoengineering Project, Mr. Thernstrom studies the policy implications of geoengineering, or climate engineering. This groundbreaking field of climate science involves changing features of the earth's environment to offset the warming effect of greenhouse gases. Mr. Thernstrom's television and radio appearances include BBC News, ABC News, CNN, FOX News, NPR, and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS.
Experience
- Director of Communications, White House Council on Environmental Quality, 2001-2003
- Chief Speechwriter, U.S. Department of Labor, 2001
- Speechwriter to George E. Pataki, Governor of New York, 1999-2001
- Spokesman, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, 1996-99
- Environmental Studies Fellow, Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, 1993-95
- Research Assistant to Professor Aaron Wildavsky, University of California, Berkeley, 1993
- Research Fellow, Political Economy Research Center, 1993
Education
B.A., social studies, Harvard University
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Reading the climate news in recent weeks, one might start to wonder who won the last election.
After years of deadlock over climate policy, Congress appears poised to enact the first federal limits on greenhouse gas emissions this fall.
Energy Secretary Steven Chu made headlines when he proposed "soft" geoengineering by painting roofs and roads white in order to reflect sunlight back into space. That idea might seem absurd to some, but Chu has done the nation a service.
Book Chapter
February 27, 2009
Can international regimes be effective means to restrain carbon emissions?
Can global warming be stopped? Ask a geoengineer.
Al Gore deliberately obscures the critical questions that need to be carefully considered when crafting climate policy.
Geoengineering could prove to be a viable solution to global warming.
Geoengineering could prove to be a viable solution to global warming.
In a recent speech, President Bush set new goals for U.S. climate policy without providing aplan to achieve them.
Will George Bush salvage his legacy on climate change?
Samuel Thernstrom testifies at a congressional hearing on the EPA's response to air quality issues in the aftermath of September 11, 2001.
Al Gore’s extreme proposals on climate change are smart politics--and bad policy.
Is there a viable alternative to the Kyoto Protocol?
Gore himself has done incalculable harm to the cause of combating global warming.
New York Sun
July 8, 2005
This is a classic turtle and the hare story--and America's slow and steady approach is the only way to win this race.
Ripon Forum
March 28, 2005
The death of the environmental movement is being mourned.
While average global temperatures rose slightly during the twentieth century, we do not have sufficient evidence to know definitively whether that rise was man-made or natural.
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