a different debate opponent and let me briefly introduce. i will read their bios, and then i believe they are going to come up to the stage after i introduce them. we re very pleased to have with us this morning professor andrew desler. he s a professor of atmospheric science at texas a&m university. professor destler is a climate scientist who studies both the science and politics of climate change. he is the rita a heinz chair in geosciences at texas a&m in 2022. he was named director of texas a&m s, texas center for climate studies. professor destler also served in the clinton administration during the the last year he served as a senior policy analyst in the white house office of science and technology policy his latest book introduction to modern climate change won the 2014 american meteorological societies louis j. batten authors award. we are also pleased to have alex epstein he is the president and founder of the center for industrial progress author of the moral case
introduce, i will read their bios and then i believe they re going to come up to the stage after i introduced them. we are very pleased to have with us this morning professor andrew tesla, professor of atmospheric science at texas a&m university. professor tesla as a climate scientist who studies both the science and politics of climate change. he i is the chair in geosciencet the texas a&m. in 2022 he was he was named director of texas a man s texas center for climate study. professor dressler also served in the clinton administration during the last year. he served as a senior policy analyst in the white house in the white house office of science and technology policy. his latest book,te introductiono modern climate change, one the 2014 american meteorological societies lewis authors award. we are also pleased to have alex epstein, president and founder of the center for industrial progress, author of the moral case for fossil fuels. alex is a philosopher who argues human f
covered the government s response to the coronavirus in my commentary writings at the washington times and early on i wrote a piece in april of 2020. i wrote a piece entitled the coronavirus will go down in history as the biggest political hoax and for that i was attacked but look at where we are now, and then i covered the last couple years of the lockdowns the clampdowns the unscientific science the hypocrisies and so forth and i just felt it was time to write a book letting readers know not just some of the underreported or unreported behind scenes discussions that justified the lockdowns, but also more importantly what s ahead how the democrats in particular how the left is going to continue to use fear from the coronavirus to justify even more clampdowns on liberties. you open the book with a personal count from from your life and reach a little bit and then you can expand on it you wrote this science is not sacrosanct doctors are not gods but believing so as place ameri
we have a fantastic one speaker. this is a real treat to welcome dr. bjorn lombard to steamboat institute dr. lomborg is the president and founder of the copenhagen consensus center. he is the author of the best-selling false alarm how climate change panic costs us trillions hurts the poor and fails to fix the planet. he will be signing copies of your books that you brought with you in the four year after his presentation. dr. longboard challenges mainstream concerns about development and the environment and points out that we need to focus the attention on the smartest solutions first. he s a visiting fellow at the stanford stanford university s hoover institution. and of course president of the copenhagen consensus center, which brings together many of the world s top economists including seven nobel laureates. dr. longboard is a frequent participant in public debates on policy issues his analysis and commentaries have appeared regularly in such prestigious publications as
and y all really celebrated the community of the last couple days and y all have heard some fantastic people, but y all are in for a great treat. our friend andy lack. that s andy. that s don in case y all don t know. andy ran nbc and sony music and and he s now. yeah, go ahead don messing up my introduction. look at that. seriously, i got like 30 seconds. and and andy is now actually who moved down here came down from the northeast decided to get a life. he came he lives in new orleans now. all right, so give him a round of applause. for some reason he was like dancing on the street and mardi gras on like the y all do that in new york. it was like, i don t think so. and y all know my dear friend don lemon. i ve been i ve been he s been having me up on the cnn desk trying to opinionate about stuff. but he and i have gotten to be dear friends. he actually is a homeboy and he s about to leave here and go see his mama. so this is his home. he s been reporting for me. he represen