TEDBlog

« More TEDsters on Al Gore's talk | Main | "Gore gets it!" »

12 October 2007

TEDSalon speaker Michael Oppenheimer honored by Nobel

Oppen.JPGAs a collaborator on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), professor Michael Oppenheimer is honored by the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the IPCC, and shared with Al Gore, for its work in understanding the climate change crisis and pointing the way forward to solving it.

At the 2007 TEDSalon, "Hot Science: Radical Ideas to Combat the Climate Crisis", Oppenheimer laid out the case that he has spent decades making: that "pervasive climate change is already under way" and "further warming is physically inevitable." His lifetime of work has allowed humanity to understand the scope of this problem. With the IPCC, he's been a lead author on several major assessments of the climate, including the upcoming Fourth Assessment Report due next month, assembling the research from more than 130 countries and thousands of studies into a window on our climate crisis.

Photo of Michael Oppenheimer by Myrna Suarez, Condé Nast Portfolio

Technorati tags:

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://blog.ted.com/cgi-bin/mte/mt-tb.cgi/3173

Discuss Blog Post


    Tools for TED.com


    Subscribe to the TED Blog's RSS feed >>
    Download the free TED Miro player >>
    Download TED and Ideo's Big Questions widget >>
    Join TED on Facebook >>
    Follow TEDTalks on Twitter >>

    facebook225.gif
    twitterLG.gif

    Tips? Comments? Contact us.
    NEW: Found a glitch in a TED video? Report a bug >>


    Get the latest news on the TED Prize on TEDPrize.org >>

    ... and follow the TED Prize on Twitter >>

    by topic

    Archives



    What we blog about

    TED Bloggers

    Chris Anderson | Curator
    June Cohen | Director of TED Media
    Amy Novogratz | TED Prize Director
    Tom Rielly | Humorist
    Bruno Giussani | TED European Director
    Jason Wishnow | Director, Film + Video
    Emily McManus | Editor, TED.com
    Matthew Trost | Assistant Editor, TED.com

    Blogs we watch

    >> TEDPrize.org | Updates on the 2008 TED Prize winners and wishes:
    Dave Eggers' wish blog
    Karen Armstrong's wish blog
    Neil Turok's wish blog

    >> Thomas Dolby | TED Musical Director, blogging at ThomasDolby.com
    >> Bruno Giussani | TED European Director, blogging at LunchOverIP.com
    >> Emeka Okafor | TEDAfrica Director, blogging at Timbuktu Chronicles and Africa Unchained


    Get involved: TED Prize wishes

    Once Upon a School

    Meet the Greens

    Next Einstein

    InSTEDD

    Open Architecture Network

    Encyclopedia of Life

    Pangea Day