Who should we invite to talk on AI and Climate? (opens in new tab)

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We 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?

defrost1y ago

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...

petervandijckOP1y ago

Thank you, will try!

richrichie1y ago

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.

defrost1y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40111272

petervandijckOP1y ago

Thanks this is an incredible list.

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petervandijckOP1y ago

defrost1y ago

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...

petervandijckOP1y ago

Thank you, will try!

richrichie1y ago

1. Steven Koonin - professor at NYU, Under Secretary for Science at the U.S. Department of Energy in the Obama administration.

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.

defrost1y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40111272

petervandijckOP1y ago

Thanks this is an incredible list.

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