Doom, Gloom, and Energy Boom, by Dana Nuccitelli | 2025-11-23 @2:00 PM

Climate change is a difficult and polarizing topic. Some claim that we’re already doomed to a climate catastrophe, while others argue that climate concerns are overblown and we need to focus on expanding fossil fuel production in a bid for “energy dominance.”

Dana Nuccitelli will investigate these claims and make the case that while it poses an immense challenge, with the help of clean technologies, addressing the climate crisis while meeting our energy needs is entirely possible.

Dana Nuccitelli is an environmental scientist with a bachelor’s degree in astrophysics from UC Berkeley and a master’s degree in physics from UC Davis. He is the Research Manager for the nonprofit climate advocacy group Citizens’ Climate Lobby citizensclimatelobby.org , and a climate journalist who has written for Skeptical Science since 2010, for The Guardian from 2013 to 2018, and for Yale Climate Connections since 2018. Dana has also published 10 peer-reviewed climate papers, most notably on the 97% expert consensus among climate scientists that humans are primarily responsible for the observed global warming
since 1950.

-Event is open to the public.
-Free parking in the lot
-Ok to BYO snack/beverage — or to share if you wish.
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