Dr. Andrew Dessler

Biography

Andrew Dessler is a Professor at Texas A&M University in the College of Arts and Sciences, serving as the Director of the Texas Center for Extreme Weather. His research interests encompass several areas concerning climate science, including climate impacts, global climate physics, atmospheric chemistry, and climate change policy. His work emphasizes the intersection of climate change and human society, focusing on helping communities cope with the impacts of climate change and quantifying climate extremes. He has spent decades studying the feedback mechanisms in the atmosphere and has conducted extensive research on the physics of climate change to improve the understanding of global climate models. Dessler also has experience in atmospheric chemistry, particularly regarding stratospheric ozone, and he was a Senior Policy Analyst at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where he became acutely aware of the misunderstanding of science in policy discussions. He has authored multiple publications, including texts that discuss the science and politics of global climate change.

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