Peter Erickson

Background

About Peter Erickson

Scientist focused on rigorous analysis and development of climate change mitigation policy. I take the following quote as inspiration, and provocation, for my scientific writing. “Poetry is the only mode of written communication in which it is normal for all the words to mean what they say.” - Hugh Kenner, The Art of Poetry (Chicago: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, 1959). I think he is largely correct. But I want my scientific and policy words to mean what they say, to keep from getting lost in jargon or muddled thinking. If you read my work (see links to publications), I hope you agree. I also value the anonymous peer review process. My scholarly work has been published in Nature, Nature Energy, Nature Climate Change, Climate Policy, Energy Policy, Environmental Research Letters, and others. I have published Commentary in Nature, the New Yorker, Council on Foreign Relations (blog), Guardian, Seattle Times, and others. Have been interviewed or quoted in New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Guardian, Vox, Harper's Index, others.