Dave Levitan, Author at Gizmodo

Author of 1983 EPA Report on Global Warming Explains Why He’s Still Hopeful After 36 Years of Being Ignored

In 1983, the Environmental Protection Agency published a report titled “Can We Delay A Greenhouse Warming?” It ran through the latest predictions on climate change, and analyzed the feasibility of several policy options, from taxes to fossil fuel bans, that could slow the coming catastrophe. It is one of the earliest EPA reports dedicated to…

Climate Change Dave Levitan Mar 7

Geoengineering Is Inevitable

Here’s what’s going to happen: Every year for the foreseeable future, scientists, activists, and citizens concerned about climate change will have a discussion in one form or another about geoengineering. There will be editorials and vague proposals in journals; there will be think pieces on the need not to do it, but to talk about…

Climate Change Dave Levitan Oct 9

Congress’s Only Physicist Explains What’s at Stake for Science This Year

In March, Congress passed a massive spending bill, averting (further) government shutdowns. Though he threw a minor tantrum about it, President Trump signed the bill into law. Among the various things that might have spawned the whining was the complete reversal of the White House budget requests when it came to science. The bill was,…

Tech News Dave Levitan Apr 27

Dave Levitan

Author of 1983 EPA Report on Global Warming Explains Why He’s Still Hopeful After 36 Years of Being Ignored

Geoengineering Is Inevitable

Congress’s Only Physicist Explains What’s at Stake for Science This Year

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