Chu is a Great Energy Pick. By Joseph Romm, Grist, December 15, 2008. "Here are the top five reasons Steven Chu is one of the best cabinet picks in recent memory: 5) His 'views on climate change would be among the most forceful ever held by a cabinet member.' He said last year, scientists had come to 'realize that the climate is much more sensitive than we thought' (see Scientists are Underestimating Climate Change, Part I). He said people who said they were uncertain whether climate change is being caused by humans were 'reminiscent of the dialogue in the 1950s and '60s on tobacco.' In a speech earlier this year, he said that climate change of the scale we face 'will cause enormous resource wars, over water, arable land, and massive population displacements... We're talking about hundreds of millions to billions of people being flooded out, permanently." 4) As a Chinese American and Nobel Prize winner, he will be uniquely poised to help enable the crucial energy and climate negotiations the Obama team must undertake immediately with the world's other big emitter... 3) He has experience running a major DOE lab, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, so he knows the archaic and bureaucratic DOE system well... 2) The lab he runs is responsible for developing the technologies that have paid for all the clean energy research the tax payers have ever supported. So while even the most knowledgeable clean energy experts focus too much on supply side solutions, Chu will ensure efficiency gets the equal time it deserves. 1) He isn't fooled by clean coal claptrap. Earlier this year he said, 'Coal is my worst nightmare.'"
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