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Michael Oppenheimer

Michael Oppenheimer is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, the Department of Geosciences, and the The High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI) at Princeton University. He is the Director of the Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment (C-PREE) and Faculty Associate of the Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences Program, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.

Michael Oppenheimer SB, PhD is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs at Princeton University.  He is also the Director of the Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School.  Oppenheimer is a long-time participant in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. He now serves as a coordinating lead author on IPCC’s Special Report on Oceans, Cryosphere and Climate Change.  Oppenheimer is coeditor-in-chief of the journal Climatic Change.  He serves on the New York City Panel on Climate Change and is a science advisor to the Environmental Defense Fund. Oppenheimer is a Heinz Award winner and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His research focuses on sea-level rise, migration, and other impacts of climate change from the perspectives of science, adaptation, and risk. Michael Oppenheimer has an SB degree from MIT in chemistry and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in chemical physics.  He joined the Princeton faculty in 2002 after more than two decades with the Environmental Defense Fund, where he served as chief scientist and manager of the Climate and Air Program. Earlier, he was an Atomic and Molecular Astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.   

Rapid ice melt and sea-level rise will be part of our global future — no matter what The Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets are melting at alarming rates due to climate change and will continue to do so for decades — even if the Paris climate agreement goals are met. Living on Earth November 09, 2020 · 3:00 PM EST
“By the end of this century,” Oppenheimer says, “depending on which projections you look at, the rate of sea-level rise could wind up being about five times what it was…in the 20th century. And we’re having trouble dealing with the 6 inches. We had trouble last century.”

his testimony. He joined four witnesses at the testimony: Tim Wirth, former senator from Colorado; Jeffrey Sachs, university professor and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University; and Nicolas Loris, deputy director of the Thomas A. Roe Institute of Economic Policy Studies. At Princeton, Oppenheimer is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs and the Princeton Environmental Institute, and director of the Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment, based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Testimony of  Dr. Michael Oppenheimer Princeton University, At the Oversight and Reform Committee – Subcommittee on Environment US House of Representatives, April 9, 2019, On Climate Change Science – a Historical Perspective

On Sunday, Jan. 12, Princeton University’s Michael Oppenheimer appeared on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” speaking about Venice with John Dickerson.

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