"The CO2 Gamble": Climate Alarmism and the 1979 US Energy Crisis

Leah Aronowsky (Columbia University) will give a talk titled "The CO2 Gamble": Climate Alarmism and the 1979 US Energy Crisis.

Aronowsky is a historian of science and the environment and an Assistant Professor of Climate at the Columbia Climate School. She received a PhD in history of science from Harvard University. Her current book project is a history of climate and energy policy in the late 1970s United States, when early scientific alarmism about global warming collided with policy debates about the energy crisis and the future of fossil fuels. Her academic writing has appeared in Critical Inquiry, Environmental History, and Environmental Humanities, among other outlets. She also writes essays and reviews about contemporary environmental politics in places like The New York Review of Books, The Nation, Public Books, and Jacobin. Before joining the Climate School, Leah was a postdoctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows at Columbia.