Former energy secretary likes 'climate epidemiology'

摘要

Will climate change predictions go up in smoke? Possibly, Steven Chu, former energy secretary for President Obama, told the 93rd annual convention of the Gas Processors Association in Dallas. In a wide-ranging conference keynote address, the Nobel laureate told his audience of nearly 2,600 the current study of climate change is a form of epidemiology, which he defined as the science that looks for correlations between a disease and public health to determine if a habit or microbe is causing a disease, "not understanding the molecular or genetic causes for disease."