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'''Andrew Emory Dessler''' (born 1964) is a [[climate scientist]]. He is [[Professor]] of [[Atmospheric Sciences]] and holder of the Reta A. Haynes Chair in Geoscience at [[Texas A&M University]]. He is also the Director of the Texas Center for Climate Studies. His research subject areas include climate impacts, global climate physics, [[atmospheric chemistry]], [[climate change]] and [[Climate change policy of the United States|climate change policy]].<ref name=profile>{{cite web |url=http://atmo.tamu.edu/profile/ADessler |title=Profile: Dr. Andrew Dessler |website=Department of Atmospheric Sciences website |publisher=[[Texas A&M College of Geosciences|College of Geosciences]], [[Texas A&M University]]|access-date=2022-08-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220629155155/https://atmo.tamu.edu/people/profiles/faculty/desslerandrew.html|archive-date=2022-06-29}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Dessler was born in 1964, in [[Houston, Texas]] to [[Alexander J. Dessler|Alex Dessler]] and Lorraine Barbara Dessler.<ref name= "familysearch">{{cite web |title= Andrew Emory Dessler |url= https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/V8JL-PX6 |access-date= 2013-07-29 |website= [[FamilySearch|FamilySearch.org]] |series= Texas, Birth Index, 1903-1997 |publisher= [[Intellectual Reserve]]}}</ref><!-- date of birth also in ISNI, birth being in Texas mentioned in <ref name= "chron"/> --> He received a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in [[physics]] from [[Rice University]] in 1986 and an [[Master of Arts|M.A.]] and [[Ph.D.]] in [[chemistry]] from [[Harvard University]] in 1990 and 1994.<ref name=profile/><ref name=review>{{cite web |url= http://provost.tamu.edu/initiatives/academic-program-review/academic-program-review-documents/ATMO%202009%20self-study.pdf |title= 2009 Academic Program Review |publisher= Department of Atmospheric Sciences, College of Geosciences, Texas A&M University |year= 2009 |page= 85 |access-date= 2013-07-28 |ref= {{SfnRef|2009 Academic Program Review|2009}} |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130705133418/http://provost.tamu.edu/initiatives/academic-program-review/academic-program-review-documents/ATMO%202009%20self-study.pdf |archive-date= 2013-07-05 |url-status= dead }}</ref> His doctoral thesis was titled ''In situ stratospheric ozone measurements''.<ref name= "Dessler PhD">{{cite thesis |last=Dessler |first= Andrew |degree= Ph.D. |year= 1994 |title= In situ stratospheric ozone measurements |publisher= [[Harvard University]] |oclc= 31829636}}[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1994PhDT........37D Abstract].</ref>

==Career==
Dessler worked in the energy group at [[First Boston|The First Boston Corporation]] doing [[mergers and acquisitions]] analysis in the mid-1980s.{{sfn|Dessler|2012|loc=Introduction}} He left his job as an [[investment banking|investment banker]] on [[Wall Street]] in 1988 to go to graduate school in chemistry.<ref name="chron">{{cite news |last= Dessler |first= Andrew |date= September 2, 2011 |url= http://www.chron.com/opinion/outlook/article/Perry-shoots-the-messenger-on-climate-change-2153337.php |title= Perry shoots the messenger on climate change |newspaper= [[Houston Chronicle]] |access-date= 2013-07-28 |agency= [[The McClatchy Company|McClatchy-Tribune News Service]]}}</ref> After receiving his Ph.D. in 1994, Dessler did two years of [[Postdoctoral research]] at [[NASA]]'s [[Goddard Space Flight Center]] and then spent nine years on the research faculty of the [[University of Maryland]] from 1996 to 2005.<ref name="EPA"/> Dessler went on to become an Associate Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at Texas A&M University from 2005 to 2007 and has been a [[Tenure (academic)|tenured]] Professor of Atmospheric Sciences there since 2007.<ref name=profile/>

He served as an editor for the [[American Geophysical Union]] Books Board from 1997 to 2002, and an associate editor for the ''[[Journal of Geophysical Research]]'' in 2002.{{sfn|2009 Academic Program Review|2009|page=86}}

Dessler also served as a Senior Policy Analyst in the [[White House]] [[Office of Science and Technology Policy]] for the last year of the [[Presidency of Bill Clinton|Clinton administration]]. That experience was the basis for the book he co-authored, ''[[#Dessler 2006|The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate]]''.<ref name="EPA"/>

He also published a blog for [[Grist (magazine)|Grist magazine]] from 2006 to 2009.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://grist.org/author/andrew-dessler/ |title= Andrew Dessler's Posts |work= Grist Magazine |access-date= 2013-07-28}}</ref>  He later stated, "At first, I was enamoured with blogging, until I realized how repetitive it was to keep answering the same questions. I decided I wanted a more high-impact way to spend my time."<ref name=interview>{{cite journal |last= Gewin |first= Virginia |date= March 9, 2011 |title= Turning point: Andrew Dessler |journal= [[Nature (journal)|Nature]] |volume= 471 |issue= 7337 |page= 257 |doi= 10.1038/nj7337-257a|doi-access= free }}</ref> ''[[The New York Times]]'' said the results of his [[#Minschwaner2004|2004 article]] in the ''[[Journal of Climate]]'' written with Ken Minschwaner placed them, "in the middle between the [[climate change denial|skeptics]] and those who argue that warming caused by burning of fossil fuels could be extremely severe."<ref>{{cite news |title= Study disputes idea on global warming |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/18/us/study-disputes-idea-on-global-warming.html |newspaper= [[The New York Times]] |author =<!-- no byline Associated Press staff --> |date= March 18, 2004 |access-date= 2013-07-29 |agency= [[Associated Press]]}}</ref> The authors wrote a joint letter to the editor in response objecting to the impression given by the article that their "research goes against the consensus scientific view that global warming is a serious concern." They went on to state their work did not argue against the seriousness of the problem and that the potential effects were so serious "that slight overestimates of this warming make little difference -- just as reducing the size of a firing squad from 10 shooters to nine makes little difference to the person being executed."<ref>{{cite news |title= Global warming study |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/23/opinion/l-global-warming-study-900141.html |last1= Dessler |first1= A.E. |last2= Minschwaner |first2= K. |date= March 23, 2004 |newspaper= [[The New York Times]] |access-date= 2013-07-29 |type= Letter to the Editor}}</ref> A [[#Dessler2009|2009 article]] in [[Science (journal)|''Science'']] showed "warming from rising carbon dioxide should also lead to increased water vapor and additional warming, doubling the warming effect of the carbon dioxide." according to Kenneth Chang of ''The New York Times''.<ref>{{cite news |title= Weather device also tracks greenhouse gas |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/16/science/space/16carbon.html |date= December 15, 2009 |newspaper= [[The New York Times]] |last= Chang |first= Kenneth |access-date= 2013-07-29}}</ref>

Currently, Dessler is an editor of the ''[[Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society]]''<ref>{{cite web|title=BAMS Editors and Staff Contacts|website=American Meteorological Society|url=https://www.ametsoc.org/index.cfm/ams/publications/bulletin-of-the-american-meteorological-society-bams/bams-editors-and-staff-contacts/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220819050543/https://www.ametsoc.org/index.cfm/ams/publications/bulletin-of-the-american-meteorological-society-bams/bams-editors-and-staff-contacts/|archivedate=2022-08-19}}</ref> and president-elect of the Global Environmental Change section of the [[American Geophysical Union]].<ref>{{cite web|title=AGU: Current Section Executive Committee|url=https://connect.agu.org/gec/about/leadership|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220819050906/https://connect.agu.org/gec/about/leadership|archivedate=2022-08-19}}</ref> He is also the Director of the Texas Center for Climate Studies<ref>{{cite web|title=Contact Us|website=Texas A&M University|publisher=The College of Geosciences| url=https://texasclimate.tamu.edu/about/contact-us/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220819054000/https://texasclimate.tamu.edu/about/contact-us/index.html|archivedate=2022-08-19}}</ref> and holder of the Rita A. Haynes Chair in Geosciences at Texas A&M University.<ref>{{cite web|title=Chairs & PRofessorships|website=Texas A&M University|url=https://geosciences.tamu.edu/awards-recognition/chairs-professorships/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220819054248/https://geosciences.tamu.edu/awards-recognition/chairs-professorships/index.html|archivedate=2022-08-19}}</ref>

==Books==
Dessler and Edward Parson co-authored, ''[[#Dessler 2006|The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate]]'' in 2006 (2nd ed. 2009). It was described as, "a fascinating hybrid of science and policy directed at a broad or nonspecialist audience" by Wendy Gordon in a 2008 review in ''[[Eos (journal)|Eos]]''. Gordon's review was positive concluding, "I could comfortably recommend this book to friend and colleagues." and that it would be "an excellent resource for a high school of college-level survey course in either environmental studies or public policy."<ref>{{cite journal |last= Gordon |first= Wendy S. |title= The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate |type= book review |year= 2008 |volume= 89 |issue= 36 |page= 335 |journal= [[Eos (journal)|Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union]] |doi=10.1029/2008eo360010 |bibcode=2008EOSTr..89..335G|doi-access= free }}</ref> It also received a favorable review in the ''[[Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society]]'' by Paul Higgins. Higgins noted the book's, "careful reasoning and thoughtful presentation" and stated it was a sound guide to the climate change debate.<ref>{{cite journal |last= Higgins |first= Paul A.T. |title= The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate |type= book review |year= 2007 |volume= 88 |issue= 4 |pages= 572–3 |journal= [[Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society]]}}</ref> Concluding a generally positive review Randall Wigle writing in ''Canadian Public Policy'' stated, "...I believe it is a good candidate for a primer for multidisciplinary classes devoted to climate change policy, but it would have been an even better one with less advocacy of one side of the argument."<ref>{{cite journal |last= Wigle |first= Randall M. |title= The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate |type= book review |year= 2006 |volume= 32 |issue= 4 |pages= 443–4 |journal= Canadian Public Policy |doi=10.2307/4128717|jstor= 4128717 }}</ref> Maria Ivanova wrote in ''[[Global Environmental Politics]]'' that the book's scholarly value was indisputable.<ref>{{cite journal |last= Ivanova |first= Maria |title= The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate |type= book review |journal= [[Global Environmental Politics]] |year= 2007 |volume= 7 |issue= 2 |pages= 145–7 |url= http://www.umb.edu/editor_uploads/images/centers_institutes/center_governance_sustain/Ivanova-ScienceandPoliticsofClimateChageReview-2007.pdf |doi=10.1162/glep.2007.7.2.145|s2cid= 154256565 }}</ref> Writing in ''[[New Scientist]]'' in 2006 Adrian Barnett said, "Free copies should be shipped to anyone who doubts the reality of climate change, starting with presidents in denial."<ref>{{cite news |last= Barnett |first= Adrian |date= February 25, 2006 |title= For people who live in greenhouses |magazine= [[New Scientist]] |issue= 2540 |page= 54 |url= https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18925402.600-for-people-who-live-in-greenhouses.html |url-access=subscription }}</ref> The book also received very positive reviews in ''[[Chromatographia]]'', the ''[[Times Higher Education|Times Higher Education Supplement (THES)]]'' and ''Environmental Sciences''.<ref>{{cite journal |last= Adlard |first= E.R. |title= The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate |type= book review |journal= [[Chromatographia]] |year= 2006 |volume= 63 |issue= 11–12 |pages= 641–642 |doi= 10.1365/s10337-006-0834-6|s2cid= 189825736 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last= Reay |first= Dave |title= Tell gran just how hot it is |magazine= [[Times Higher Education|Times Higher Education Supplement (THES)]] |date= May 26, 2006 |url= http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/books/textbook-guides/8-november-2012/tell-gran-just-how-hot-it-is/203280.article}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last= Corbera |first= Esteve |title= The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate |type= book review |journal= Environmental Sciences |volume= 3 |issue= 4 |pages= 289–91 |doi= 10.1080/15693430600819154 |year= 2006|doi-access= free }}</ref>

In 2012 Dessler wrote ''[[#Dessler 2012|Introduction to Modern Climate Change]]'' "a textbook for non-science majors that uniquely immerses the reader in the science, impacts, economics, policies and political debate associated with climate change."<ref name= "AMS Battan"/> It received an [[#Battan 2014|award]] from the [[American Meteorological Society]] in 2014.<ref name= "AMS Battan"/> It was favorably reviewed by Cameron Reed in ''Physics & Society'' who said, "The writing is clear, has a nice balance of formal and informal prose, and includes occasional elements of dry humor to lighten discussions of otherwise very serious issues."<ref>{{cite news |last= Reed |first= Cameron |title= Introduction to Modern Climate Change |type= book review |magazine= Physics & Society |date=April 2013 |url= http://www.aps.org/units/fps/newsletters/201304/climate.cfm |access-date= 2014-03-04 |publisher= [[American Physical Society]]}}</ref> It is used in classes in environmental sciences and the science and policy of climate change.<ref>{{cite web |title= ENVS 330-000: Climatology (Spring 2013) |url= http://college.emory.edu/home/academic/course/schedules/2013/spring/section/regular/environmental/ENVS330-000.html |website= Emory University course catalog |publisher= [[Emory University]] |location= Atlanta, GA |access-date= 2013-08-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title= Fall 2013: The Science and Policy of Climate Change |url= http://cas.nyu.edu/docs/IO/29511/432.pdf |last= Gerber |first= Edwin |publisher= [[New York University College of Arts and Science|College of Arts and Science]]; [[New York University]] |access-date= 2014-03-04 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160304105339/http://cas.nyu.edu/docs/IO/29511/432.pdf |archive-date= 2016-03-04 |url-status= dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=GEG6214 Science and Politics of Climate Change |url=http://www.geog.qmul.ac.uk/undergraduate/modules/moduledetails/48302.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140304143610/http://www.geog.qmul.ac.uk/undergraduate/modules/moduledetails/48302.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2014-03-04 |publisher=School of Geography; [[Queen Mary University of London]] |access-date=2014-03-04 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Geography 3901H: Global Climate and Environmental Change: Spring 2014 Syllabus |last=Mark |first=Bryan G. |url=http://www.geography.osu.edu/coursedocs/2014_SP/Geog3901HMark.pdf |year=2014 |publisher=[[Ohio State University]] |access-date=2014-03-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140304164417/http://www.geography.osu.edu/coursedocs/2014_SP/Geog3901HMark.pdf |archive-date=2014-03-04 }}</ref>

==Climate change policy==
{{centered pull quote|...the climate is warming...humans are in the driver's seat...if nothing is done to rein in emissions, temperatures will likely increase enough to profoundly change the planet.|author= Andrew Dessler}}
Dessler has been consulted by newspapers and has given talks on climate change and government policy. On January 16, 2014 he testified before the [[United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works|US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works]].<ref>{{cite AV media |title= Climate Change Policy |url= http://www.c-span.org/video/?317244-1/administration-defends-climate-change-plan |last= Dessler |first= Andrew |time= 02:58:45 |date= January 16, 2014 |publisher= [[C-SPAN]] |type= video of testimony before the [[United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works|US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works]]}}</ref> He stated that with almost 200 years of study by the scientific community of the climate system a robust understanding has emerged. He continued stating, the climate is warming and "humans are now in the driver's seat". He concluded, "We know that, over the next century, if nothing is done to rein in emissions, temperatures will likely increase enough to profoundly change the planet."<ref name= "EPW written">{{cite web |title= What we know about climate change |last= Dessler |first= Andrew |url= http://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=26edecac-2c6f-4f8e-ab90-962a7d074d06 |website= epw.senate.gov |type= written testimony |access-date= 2014-03-03 |publisher= [[United States Senate|US Senate]]}}</ref> He gave a talk at the [[Goddard Space Flight Center]] in 2013 titled, "The Alternate Reality of [[Climate Skeptics]]" in which he explained how "[[climate change denial|climate skeptics]] have constructed an alternate reality to believe it [''sic'']. In this way, the debate over climate change turns into a debate over which reality should be believed."<ref>{{cite web |title= 614 Visiting Lecturer Bonus Lecture: The Alternate Reality of Climate Skeptics |url= http://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/calendar/showevent.cfm?CalID=1777 |website= Sciences and Exploration Directorate website |publisher= [[Goddard Space Flight Center]], [[NASA]] |date= April 18, 2013 |access-date= 2013-07-28}}</ref> In 2010 when [[United States Senate|US Senator]] [[Jim Inhofe|James Inhofe]] attempted to block the [[United States Environmental Protection Agency|US Environmental Protection Agency]] from [[Regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act|regulating greenhouse gases]] under the [[Clean Air Act (United States)|Clean Air Act]], Dessler told reporters he was confident that individual errors don't invalidate the [[scientific consensus]] that global temperature is rising stating, "That's not how science works." He asserted his confidence that the climate is warming due to human activity and that this will have "catastrophic impacts" stating, "The evidence includes a mountain of data." Dessler cited replication by multiple institutions as support.<ref name= "ENS 2010">{{cite news |title= Climate science controversy flares in EPA budget hearing |url= http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/feb2010/2010-02-23-091.html |date= February 23, 2010 |agency= [[Environment News Service]] |access-date= 2014-03-04}}</ref>

Dessler has suggested that scientists advocating for [[climate change mitigation]] should tell their personal stories and that this would reveal the strategy of [[ad hominem]] attacks by [[Climate change denial|climate change deniers]], an attempt to portray scientists to audiences as "not 'like them.'" He said by revealing their backstory scientists can build trust and show people that they share their values.<ref>{{cite news |last= Dessler |first= Andrew |title= What scientists should talk about: Their personal stories |newspaper= [[The Guardian]] |date= September 20, 2013 |url= https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/sep/20/climate-change-scientists-personal-stories |department= Climate Consensus - The 97% |access-date= 2014-03-04}}</ref> In December 2013 Dessler spoke at a workshop about his experiences with a request for all of his emails at Texas A&M from the American Tradition Institute's [[Christopher C. Horner|Chris Horner]] using the [[Texas Public Information Act]].<ref name= "Ogburn 2014"/><ref name= "Sturgis 2012">{{cite news |last= Sturgis |first= Sue |title= Climate science attack group turns sights on Texas professors |url= http://www.southernstudies.org/2012/07/climate-science-attack-group-turns-sights-on-texas-professors.html |publisher= [[Institute for Southern Studies]] |magazine= Facing South |date= July 19, 2012 |access-date= 2014-03-04 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140328231652/http://www.southernstudies.org/2012/07/climate-science-attack-group-turns-sights-on-texas-professors.html |archive-date= March 28, 2014 |url-status= dead |df= mdy-all }}</ref> He had received support from [[Scott Mandia]] of the [[Climate Science Legal Defense Fund]], the [[Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility]] and the [[Union of Concerned Scientists]].<ref name= "Ogburn 2014">{{cite news |last= Ogburn |first= Stephanie Paige |date= January 21, 2014 |title= Climate scientists, facing skeptics' demands for personal emails, learn how to cope |url= http://www.eenews.net/stories/1059993161 |agency= [[Environment & Energy Publishing#ClimateWire|ClimateWire]] |publisher= [[Environment & Energy Publishing]] |access-date= 2014-03-04}}</ref>

===Texas and politics===
When then [[Rick Perry presidential campaign, 2012|presidential candidate]] [[Rick Perry]] suggested that scientists were frequently questioning "that manmade global warming is what is causing the climate to change." Dessler was interviewed by [[NPR]] to represent the mainstream scientific consensus.<ref>{{cite web |title= Drought, Wildfires Haven't Changed Perry's Climate-Change Views |url= https://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2011/09/07/140260189/drought-and-wildfires-havent-changed-perrys-views-on-climate-change |date= September 7, 2011 |last=Burnett |first= John |access-date= 2013-07-29 |publisher= [[NPR]] |format= blog}}</ref> With Perry's home state suffering a severe drought, Dessler (a native Texan) did not attribute the extreme weather that year (2011) to climate change, but he said, "We can be confident we’ve made this hellish summer worse than it would have been."<ref>{{cite news |title= Life without government |url= http://keller.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/10/life-without-government/ |last= Keller |first= Bill |author-link= Bill Keller |date= October 10, 2011 |newspaper= [[The New York Times]] |access-date= 2013-07-28 |format= blog}}</ref>

===Clouds and climate change===

{{see also|Greenhouse gas#Role of water vapor|label 1= Greenhouse gas: Role of water vapor}}

A front page article in ''The New York Times'' examining the theory that clouds might offset the effects of increased greenhouse gasses found that his analysis in a 2011 article in ''[[Geophysical Research Letters]]'' "offered some evidence that clouds will exacerbate the long-term planetary warming"<ref>{{cite news |title= Clouds' effect on climate change is last bastion for dissenters |last= Gillis |first= Justin |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/01/science/earth/clouds-effect-on-climate-change-is-last-bastion-for-dissenters.html |newspaper= [[The New York Times]] |date= April 30, 2012 |access-date= 2013-07-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title= Cloud variations and the Earth's energy budget |journal= [[Geophysical Research Letters]] |last= Dessler |first= Andrew E. |date= October 1, 2011 |volume= 38 |issue= 9 |doi= 10.1029/2011GL049236 |pages= L19701|bibcode=2011GeoRL..3819701D|citeseerx= 10.1.1.362.5742 }}</ref> Following the publication of the ''New York Times'' article "Dessler became a target of climate science critics" and was interviewed on the [[PBS]] show ''[[Frontline (U.S. TV series)|Frontline]]'' for the episode "Climate of Doubt" which explored "the massive shift in public opinion on climate change."<ref name= "Ogburn 2014"/><ref>{{cite episode |title= Climate of Doubt |url= https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/climate-of-doubt/? |date= October 23, 2012 |access-date= 2013-07-29 |transcript= transcript |transcript-url= https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/environment/climate-of-doubt/transcript-31/ |network= [[PBS]] |series-link= Frontline (U.S. TV series) |series= Frontline |last1= Upin |first1= Catherine |last2= Hockenberry |first2= John |author-link2= John Hockenberry}} [https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/andrew-dessler-science-and-the-politics-of-climate-change/ Transcript of interview]. August 14, 2012.</ref> As a [[visiting scholar|visiting fellow]] at the [[Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences]] in 2013 and 2014 he is undertaking a project titled, "Understanding long-term variations in stratospheric water vapor."<ref name= "CIRES 2013"/> In a November 2013 article in the ''[[Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America]]'' Dessler and colleagues provide observational evidence of a [[positive feedback]] effect of [[Stratosphere|stratospheric]] [[water vapor]] and [[global warming]].<ref>{{cite journal |first1= A.E. |last1= Dessler |first2= M.R. |last2= Schoeberl |first3= T. |last3= Wanga |first4= S.M. |last4= Davis |first5= K.H. |last5= Rosenlof |display-authors= 4 |title= Stratospheric water vapor feedback |journal= [[Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America]] |volume= 110 |issue= 45 |pages= 18087–91 |year= 2013 |doi= 10.1073/pnas.1310344110|bibcode = 2013PNAS..11018087D |pmid=24082126 |pmc=3831493|doi-access= free }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title= Water vapor in the upper atmosphere amplifies global warming |url= http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/csd/news/2013/144_0930.html |work= CSD News & Events |date= September 30, 2013 |publisher= Chemical Sciences Division (CSD); [[Earth System Research Laboratories]]; [[Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research]]; [[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]] (NOAA); [[United States Department of Commerce|US Dept. of Commerce]]}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Dessler was described as an avid [[Glider aircraft|glider]] pilot in 2006.<ref name="EPA">{{cite web|url=http://www.epa.gov/electricpower-sf6/documents/conf06_bios.pdf |title=4th International Conference on SF6 and the Environment: Speaker Biographies |publisher=[[United States Environmental Protection Agency]] |year=2006 |access-date=2013-07-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081013063247/http://www.epa.gov/electricpower-sf6/documents/conf06_bios.pdf |archive-date=2008-10-13 }}</ref> He is married with two children and lives in [[College Station, Texas]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.andrewdessler.com/about-the-author/ |title=About the author |website=www.andrewdessler.com |language=en-US |access-date=2018-10-24}}</ref>

==Awards and honors==
*1991-1994 - NASA Graduate Student Fellowship in Global Change Research<ref name=review/>
*1993 - [[American Geophysical Union]] Atmospheric Sciences Section Outstanding Student Paper Award<ref name=review/>
*1994-1996 - [[United States National Research Council|National Research Council]] Research Associateship<ref name=review/><ref>{{cite web |title= Dessler, Andrew Emory |url= http://nrc58.nas.edu/aodir/gen_page.asp?mode=detail&sql=idnumber=%27942671%27 |series= [[United States National Research Council|National Research Council]] Associateships Program Directory |publisher= [[National Academy of Sciences]] |date= 2008 |access-date= 2013-07-29}}</ref>
*1999 - NASA New Investigator Award<ref name=review/>
*1999 - NASA Goddard Laboratory for Atmospheres Best Senior Author Publication Award<ref name=review/>
*2006 - Aldo Leopold Leadership Program Fellowship, [[Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment]], [[Stanford University]]<ref name=review/><ref>{{cite web |title= The Leopold Leadership Program: Fellows: Andrew Dessler |url= http://leopoldleadership.stanford.edu/fellows/dessler |access-date= 2014-03-04 |publisher= [[Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment]]; [[Stanford University]]}}</ref>
*2011 - [[Google]] Science Communication Fellow<ref name=interview/><ref>{{cite web |title= Making sense of science: Introducing the Google Science Communication Fellows |url= http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/making-sense-of-science-introducing.html |work= Google official blog |date= February 15, 2011 |access-date= 2013-07-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release |last=Riedel |first= Karen |year= 2011 |url= http://www.met.tamu.edu/news/712-andrew-dessler-named-google-science-communication-fellow |title= Andrew Dessler named Google Science Communication Fellow |publisher=College of Geosciences, Texas A&M University |access-date=2013-07-28}}</ref>
*2011 - Texas A&M University [[Sigma Xi]] Outstanding Science Communicator Award<ref>{{cite web|title=Sigma Xi Announces Recipients of 2011 Awards |url=http://tamunews.tamu.edu/sigma-xi-announces-recipients-of-2011-awards/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306152125/http://tamunews.tamu.edu/sigma-xi-announces-recipients-of-2011-awards/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2014-03-06 |access-date=2014-03-03 |work=Texas A&M University Marketing and Communications Archive |publisher=[[Texas A&M University]] }}</ref>
*2012 - Atmospheric Sciences Section Ascent Award, American Geophysical Union<ref>{{cite journal |last= Webster |first= Peter J. |title= Dessler, Jimenez, Klein, and Nenes receive 2012 Atmospheric Sciences Ascent awards: Citation for Andrew E. Dessler |journal= [[Eos (journal)|Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union]] |year= 2013 |volume= 94 |issue= 45 |page= 413 |doi= 10.1002/2013EO450008|bibcode = 2013EOSTr..94Q.413W |doi-access= free }}</ref><ref name= "Geosciences News">{{cite news |title= Texas A&M atmospheric scientist receives national award |url= http://geonews.tamu.edu/latestnews/903-texas-aam-atmospheric-scientist-receives-national-award.html |work= Geosciences News |last= West |first= Lowell |publisher= [[Texas A&M University]] |date= July 16, 2011 |access-date= 2014-03-03 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140306151915/http://geonews.tamu.edu/latestnews/903-texas-aam-atmospheric-scientist-receives-national-award.html |archive-date= March 6, 2014 |url-status= dead }}</ref>
*2012 - H. Burr Steinbach Visiting Scholar, [[Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution|Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute]]<ref name= whoit>{{cite web |title= H. Burr Steinbach Visiting Scholars Program: Past Visiting Scholars |url= http://mit.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=36436 |publisher= [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]], [[Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution]] Joint Program |access-date= 2014-03-03 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160603083739/http://mit.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=36436 |archive-date= 2016-06-03 |url-status= dead }}</ref>
*2012 - Thompson Lecturer, [[National Center for Atmospheric Research]]<ref>{{cite web |title= Advanced Study Program: Thompson Lecture Series Archive |url= http://www.asp.ucar.edu/thompson/thompson_lecture_archive.php |publisher= [[National Center for Atmospheric Research]], [[University Corporation for Atmospheric Research]] |access-date= 2014-03-03 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140122175048/http://www.asp.ucar.edu/thompson/thompson_lecture_archive.php |archive-date= 2014-01-22 }}</ref>
*2013 - Visiting Fellow Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences<ref name="CIRES 2013">{{cite web|title=Andrew Dessler CIRES' Visiting Fellow |url=http://cires.colorado.edu/collaboration/fellowships/2013/dessler/ |publisher=[[Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences]] (CIRES) |access-date=2014-03-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140304143533/http://cires.colorado.edu/collaboration/fellowships/2013/dessler/ |archive-date=2014-03-04 }}</ref>
*{{Anchor|Battan 2014}}2014 - Louis J. Battan Author's Award, American Meteorological Society<ref name= "AMS Battan">{{cite web |title= 2014 Honorary Members, Awards, Lecturers and Fellows |url= http://www2.ametsoc.org/ams/index.cfm/linkservid/258DEBA8-D8DC-B2F9-A157ECAA2F4C64C2/showMeta/0/ |page= 3 |website= www2.ametsoc.org |publisher= [[American Meteorological Society]] |access-date= 2014-03-03}}</ref>
*2019 - Fellow of the American Geophysical Union<ref>{{Cite journal|title=2019 Class of AGU Fellows Announced|url=https://eos.org/agu-news/2019-class-of-agu-fellows-announced|access-date=2020-06-19|journal=Eos|year=2019|language=en-US|doi=10.1029/2019eo131029|last1=Bell|first1=Robin|last2=Holmes|first2=Mary|volume=100|doi-access=free}}</ref>
*2022 - "Friend of the Planet" award from the [[National Center for Science Education]] (NCSE)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Branch |first1=Glenn |authorlink=Glenn Branch|title=Friend of Darwin and Friend of the Planet awards for 2022 |url=https://ncse.ngo/friend-darwin-and-friend-planet-awards-2022 |website=ncse.ngo |publisher=National Center for Science Education |access-date=18 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220915201618/https://ncse.ngo/friend-darwin-and-friend-planet-awards-2022 |archive-date=15 September 2022 |date=August 26, 2022}}</ref>

==Publications==

===Books authored===
* {{cite book|last=Dessler|first=Andrew Emory|title=The Chemistry and Physics of Stratospheric Ozone|year=2000|publisher=Academic Press|isbn=9780122120510 |location= San Diego |author-mask=0}}
* {{Anchor|Dessler 2012}}{{cite book |last= Dessler |first= Andrew Emory |title= Introduction to Modern Climate Change |year= 2012 |publisher= Cambridge University Press |location= New York |isbn= 9781107001893 |author-mask=0 }}

===Books co-authored===
{{Anchor|Dessler 2006}}{{cite book |last1= Andrew Emory |first1= Dessler |last2= Parson |first2= Edward Anthony |title= The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate |publisher= Cambridge University Press |location= New York |year= 2006 |isbn= 9780521831703 |edition= 1st |author-mask1= 1 |url-access= registration |url= https://archive.org/details/sciencepoliticso0000dess }} (2009. 2nd ed. {{ISBN|9780521519243}}).

===Selected articles===

*{{cite journal |last1= Weinstock |first1= E.M. |first2= E.J. |last2= Hintsa |first3= A.E. |last3= Dessler |first4= J.F. |last4= Oliver |first5= N.L. |last5= Hazen |first6= J.N. |last6= Demusz |first7= N.T. |last7= Allen |first8= L.B. |last8= Lapson |first9= J.G. |last9= Anderson |title= New fast response photofragment fluorescence hygrometer for use on the NASA ER-2 and the Perseus remotely piloted aircraft |journal= [[Review of Scientific Instruments]] |volume= 65 |issue= 11 |date=November 1994 |pages= 3544–54 |doi= 10.1063/1.1144536 |display-authors= 4 |author-mask3= 1|bibcode = 1994RScI...65.3544W }}
*{{cite journal |title= The diurnal variation of hydrogen, nitrogen, and chlorine radicals: Implications for the heterogeneous production of HNO2 |journal= [[Geophysical Research Letters]] |volume= 21 |issue= 23 |pages= 2551–4 |doi= 10.1029/94GL02782 |date= November 15, 1994 |first1= R.J. |last1=Salawitch |first2= S.C. |last2= Wofsy |first3= P.O. |last3= Wennberg |first4= R.C. |last4= Cohen |first5= J.G. |last5= Anderson |first6= D.W. |last6= Fahey |first7= R.S. |last7= Gao |first8= E.R. |last8= Keim |first9= E.L. |last9= Woodbridge |first10= R.M. |last10= Stimpfle |first11= J.P. |last11= Koplow |first12= D.W. |last12= Kohn |first13= C.R. |last13= Webster |first14= R.D. |last14= May |first15= L. |last15= Pfister |first16= E.W. |last16= Gottlieb |first17= H.A. |last17= Michelsen |first18= G.K. |last18= Yue |first19= M.J. |last19= Prather |first20= J.C. |last20= Wilson |first21= C.A. |last21= Brock |first22= H.H. |last22= Jonsson |first23= J.E. |last23= Dye |first24= D. |last24= Baumgardner |first25= M.H. |last25= Proffitt |first26= M. |last26= Loewenstein |first27= J.R. |last27= Podolske |first28= J.W. |last28= Elkins |first29= G.S. |last29= Dutton |first30= E.J. |last30= Hintsa |first31= A.E. |last31= Dessler |first32= E.M. |last32= Weinstock |first33= K.K. |last33= Kelly |first34= K.A. |last34= Boering |first35= B.C. |last35= Daube |first36= K.R. |last36= Chan |first37= S.W. |last37= Bowen |display-authors=4 |bibcode=1994GeoRL..21.2551S|url= https://authors.library.caltech.edu/46627/1/grl7984.pdf }}
*{{cite journal |title= In situ observations in aircraft exhaust plumes in the lower stratosphere at midlatitudes |journal= Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres |volume= 100 |issue= D2 |pages= 3065–74 |date= February 20, 1995 |doi= 10.1029/94JD02298 |first1= D.W. |last1= Fahey |first2= E.R. |last2= Keim |first3= E.L. |last3= Woodbridge |first4= R.S. |last4= Gao |first5= K.A. |last5= Boering |first6= B.C. |last6= Daube |first7= S.C. |last7= Wofsy |first8= R.P. |last8= Lohmann |first9= E.J. |last9= Hintsa |first10= A.E. |last10= Dessler |first11= C.R. |last11= Webster |first12= R.D. |last12= May |first13= C.A. |last13= Brock |first14= J.C. |last14= Wilson |first15= R.C. |last15= Miake-Lye |first16= R.C. |last16= Brown |first17= J.M. |last17= Rodriguez |first18= M. |last18= Loewenstein |first19= M.H. |last19= Proffitt |first20= R.M. |last20= Stimpfle |first21= S.W. |last21= Bowen |first22= K.R. |last22= Chan |display-authors=4 |bibcode=1995JGR...100.3065F}}
*{{cite journal |title= Mechanisms controlling water vapor in the lower stratosphere: "A tale of two stratospheres" |journal= Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres |volume= 100 |issue= D11 |pages= 23167–72 |doi= 10.1029/95JD02455 |date= November 20, 1995 |first1= A.E. |last1= Dessler |first2= E.J. |last2= Hintsa |first3= E.M. |last3= Weinstock |first4= J.G. |last4= Anderson |first5= K.R. |last5= Chan |display-authors=4 |author-mask=1 |bibcode=1995JGR...10023167D}}
*{{cite journal |title= A reexamination of the "stratospheric fountain" hypothesis |journal= Geophysical Research Letters |volume= 25 |issue= 22 |pages= 4165–8 |date= November 15, 1998 |doi= 10.1029/1998GL900120 |last= Dessler |first= A.E. |author-mask=1 |bibcode=1998GeoRL..25.4165D|doi-access= free }}
*{{cite journal |title= On the control of stratospheric humidity |journal= Geophysical Research Letters |volume= 27 |issue= 16 |pages= 2513–6 |date= August 15, 2000 |doi= 10.1029/2000GL011438 |last1= Sherwood |first1= S.C. |last2= Dessler |first2= A.E. |author-mask2=1 |bibcode=2000GeoRL..27.2513S|doi-access= free }}
*{{cite journal |title= A model for transport across the tropical tropopause |journal= [[Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences]] |volume= 58 |issue= 7 |date=April 2001 |pages= 765–79 |doi= 10.1175/1520-0469(2001)058<0765:AMFTAT>2.0.CO;2 |last1= Sherwood |first1= S.C. |last2= Dessler |first2= A.E. |author-mask2=1|bibcode = 2001JAtS...58..765S |citeseerx= 10.1.1.514.5310 }}
*{{cite journal |title= The effect of deep, tropical convection on the tropical tropopause layer |journal= Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres |volume= 107 |issue= D3 |pages= ACH 6–1–ACH 6–5 |date= February 16, 2002 |doi= 10.1029/2001JD000511 |last= Dessler |first= A.E. |author-mask=1|bibcode= 2002JGRD..107.4033D |doi-access= free }}
*{{cite journal |title= The distribution of tropical thin cirrus clouds inferred from Terra MODIS data |journal= [[Journal of Climate]] |date=April 2003 |volume= 16 |issue= 8 |pages= 1241–7 |doi= 10.1175/1520-0442(2003)16<1241:TDOTTC>2.0.CO;2 |last1= Dessler |first1= A.E. |last2= Yang |first2= P. |author-mask=1|bibcode = 2003JCli...16.1241D |doi-access= free }}
*{{Anchor|Minschwaner2004}}{{cite journal |title= Water vapor feedback in the tropical upper troposphere: Model results and observations |journal= Journal of Climate |volume= 17 |issue= 6 |date=March 2004 |pages= 1272–82 |doi= 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<1272:WVFITT>2.0.CO;2 |last1= Minschwaner |first1= K. |last2= Dessler |first2= A.E. |author2-mask=1|bibcode = 2004JCli...17.1272M |doi-access= free }}
*{{cite journal |title= Water-vapor climate feedback inferred from climate fluctuations, 2003–2008 |journal= Geophysical Research Letters |volume= 35 |issue= 20 |pages= L20704 |date=October 2008 |doi= 10.1029/2008GL035333 |last1= Dessler |first1= A.E. |last2= Zhang |first2= Z. |last3= Yang |first3= P. |s2cid= 16219995 |author-mask=1 |bibcode=2008GeoRL..3520704D|doi-access= free }}
*{{cite journal |title= Energy for air capture |journal= [[Nature Geoscience]] |volume= 2 |issue= 12 |page= 811 |year= 2009 |last= Dessler |first= A. |author-mask=1 |doi= 10.1038/ngeo691|bibcode = 2009NatGe...2..811D |doi-access= free }}
*{{Anchor|Dessler2009}}{{cite journal |title= A matter of humidity |journal= [[Science (journal)|Science]] |volume= 323 |issue= 5917 |pages= 1020–1 |doi= 10.1126/science.1171264 |date= February 20, 2009|last1= Dessler |first1= A.E. |last2= Sherwood |first2= S.C. |author-mask=1 |pmid=19229026|s2cid= 10362192 }}
*{{cite journal |title= Tropical tropopause layer |journal= [[Reviews of Geophysics]] |volume= 47 |issue= 1 |pages= RG1004 |date=March 2009 |doi= 10.1029/2008RG000267 |last1= Fueglistaler |first1= S. |last2= Dessler |first2= A.E. |last3= Dunkerton |first3= T.J. |last4= Folkins |first4= I. |last5= Fu |first5= Q. |last6= Mote |first6= P.W. |display-authors= 4 |author2-mask= 1 |bibcode=2009RvGeo..47.1004F|doi-access= free }}
*{{cite journal |title= A determination of the cloud feedback from climate variations over the past decade |journal= Science |volume= 330 |issue= 6010 |pages= 1523–7 |doi= 10.1126/science.1192546 |date= December 10, 2010 |last= Dessler |first= A.E. |author-mask=1|bibcode = 2010Sci...330.1523D |pmid=21148386|s2cid= 42791798 }}

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120213153436/http://atmo.tamu.edu/profile/sub/239 Complete list of publications]
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*{{YouTube|id=uW_Eh9XY0OE|title=Dessler and Singer talk about climate change}}. A debate between Dessler and climate change denier Fred Singer at Texas A&M on 2013-02-13.
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