Research Coordinator
Dana Nuccitelli is an environmental scientist and climate journalist with a Master’s Degree in physics. He has written about climate change since 2010 for Skeptical Science, for The Guardian from 2013 to 2018, and since 2018 for Yale Climate Connections. In 2015 he published the book ‘Climatology versus Pseudoscience’, and he has also authored ten peer-reviewed climate studies, including a 2013 paper that found a 97% consensus among peer-reviewed climate science research that humans are the primary cause of global warming.
Dana joined CCL’s staff in 2021 after 9 years as a volunteer with its Sacramento chapter. During that time he gave dozens of presentations all around California about climate change impacts like wildfires and droughts, and policy solutions like carbon fee and dividend. Dana has also led CCL’s Science Policy Team since 2017.
In his free time, Dana enjoys playing tennis and spending time with his dogs.
In recognition of his climate journalism and education work, Dana won the prestigious SEAL Environmental Journalism Award in 2022 and the National Center for Science Education Friend of the Planet Award in 2016.
Read Dana’s most popular blogs:
- Are clean technologies and renewable energies better for the environment than fossil fuels?
- How will carbon pricing impact inflation?
- What the latest IPCC report says about carbon fee and dividend
- The Inflation Reduction Act and climate change
- Carbon cashback must be coupled with education, study shows
