Stories by Richard Richels

Richard Richels directed climate change research at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). He served as lead author for multiple chapters of the IPCC in the areas of mitigation, impacts, and adaptation from 1992 through 2014. He also served on the National Assessment Synthesis Team for the first U.S. National Climate Assessment.

OpinionFebruary 18, 2021

Biden Channels FDR on STEM Policy

The president’s letter to his new science adviser emphasizes the crucial role science plays in our society—much as Roosevelt did in a similar missive in 1944

Henry Jacoby, Gary Yohe, Ben Santer, Richard Richels

OpinionJuly 10, 2020

Counterfactual Experiments Are Crucial but Easy to Misunderstand

With COVID-19, as with climate, we need to explore a variety of possible futures in order to set policy

Gary Yohe, Ben Santer, Henry Jacoby, Richard Richels