Events

Past Event

Build Back Better: Scientific Advice & Integrity After the Trump Yrs

November 13, 2020
12:00 PM - 1:50 PM
America/New_York
Online

Join host Andy Revkin and a stellar array of scientists, scholars and veterans of the federal scientific advisory process in a brainstorm on ways to build a damaged system back better and create more uniform standards for scientific integrity.

Neal F. Lane, Baker Institute at Rice University, Science Advisor to President Bill Clinton

Naomi Oreskes, Harvard science historian, author of Why Trust Science?

Rod Schoonover, former director of environment and global health analysis National Intelligence Council, founder of Ecological Futures Group

Romany M. Webb, senior fellow, Columbia Law School Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

Reading:

"Memo for President Biden: Five steps to getting more from science" - Roger Pielke, Jr., and Neal F. Lane, Nature, Nov. 8 | https://j.mp/bidenscipolicy

"When Politics Trump Science: The Erosion of Science-Based Regulation" - Romany M. Webb, Lauren Kurtz, and Susan Rosenthal, Environmental Law Reporter, September 2020 | https://j.mp/politicstrumpscience

"Why Trust Science?" - Naomi Oreskes, Princeton U. Press, October, 2019 |
https://j.mp/whytrustscience

Rod Schoonover's website | https://ecologicalfutures.com/

Contact Information

Andy Revkin