Steven Chu
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Steven Chu (b. 1948; - ) born in St. Louis, Missouri, he is a 1997 co-Nobel Prize-winning physicist, former director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Barack Hussein Obama's Energy Secretary. Chu is known for his global warming alarmism.
Additional Credentials
- 1970 graduate in mathematics and physics from the University of Rochester
- He earned his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley
- Professor of physics, and of molecular and cell biology at University of California, Berkeley
- Worked at AT&T's Bell Labs in the 1980's [1]
Like most global warming doomsayers (such as Al Gore), Chu has no degree in atmospheric sciences, meteorology, or climatology.
Associations & Beliefs
- Member of Copenhagen Climate Council: a private collaboration between science and business to promote a 2009 UN global warming projects.
- Member of Project Steve: which advocates the teaching of Darwinian evolution [2]
- Is against nuclear power
Quotes
- "The world needs a "revolution" in science and technology to solve global warming" [3]
- "a price must be put on carbon "without loopholes"
- âCoal is my worst nightmareâ
- As an adviser to candidate Barack Obama, a Jan. 17, 2008 statement was crafted to the San Francisco Chronicle that Obama planned pollution taxes that would âbankruptâ anyone who tried to build a coal-powered plant.
- "The Golden State could become a desert wasteland, with no more winter salad greens from its parched Central Valley or wines from its withered Napa-Sonoma vineyards, before this century ends unless America takes drastic steps to slow global warming"
References
- â Profile: Steven Chu BBC, December 16, 2008
- â California Weather Exposes Fiction of Global Warming NewsMax, February 14, 2009
- â Steven Chu calls for alt-energy "revolution" Scientific American February 12, 2009