Andrew Dessler
Climate scientist at Texas A&M; writes The Climate Brink with Zeke Hausfather.
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- Andrew Dessler is an American climate scientist, professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University and director of the Texas Center for Extreme Weather.
- His research covers climate physics, water vapor and cloud feedbacks, and climate policy.
- He was a policy analyst in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in the last year of the Clinton administration.
- In 2025 he and Robert Kopp led more than 85 scientists in a rebuttal of a Department of Energy climate report.
Key facts
- Born
- 1964, Houston, Texas1
- Texas A&M
- Associate professor, 2005 to 2007; professor of atmospheric sciences from 2007; director of the Texas Center for Extreme Weather from 20221
- Before
- Postdoc at NASA Goddard, 1994 to 1996; research faculty, University of Maryland, 1996 to 20051
- Education
- BA in physics, Rice University, 1986; MA and PhD in chemistry, Harvard, 1990 and 19941
- Newsletter
- The Climate Brink, with Zeke Hausfather2
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write The Climate Brink together 2
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