Meet Biden's trailblazing climate science adviser

摘要

This story was upated May 27. Years ago during the Obama administration, on a plane en route to the Gulf Coast, then-Vice President Joe Biden asked Jane Lubchenco about the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. He was in awe of her responses. "Wait a minute," Biden said. "I thought you were a scientist." "I am," said Lubchenco, who led NOAA at the time. "But I just understood everything you told me," Biden said. "I have a lot more questions for you." It's an anecdote Lubchenco is fond of sharing. As she wrote in Scientific American, the exchange underlined Biden's high regard for science.