The Political Scientist

摘要

"What the u.s. and china do overrnthe next decade," declared Energy Secretary Steven Chu, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who is leading President Obama's push for a clean energy economy, "will determine the fate of the world."rnChu had gone to Beijng's Tsinghua University, the "MIT of China," to make his half-apocalyptic, half optimistic pitch about climate change. In his nerdy-professor style and referring to "Milanko-vitch cycles" and the "albedo effect" as well as melting glaciers and rising seas, Chu methodically explained that the science is clear, that we're boiling the planet-but also that science can save us, that we can innovate our way to sustain-rnability.