# Professor Steve Koonin's "Red Team/Blue Team" climate exercise is mentioned

1 Faculty News July 12, 2017 ![The Washington Post logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031074.jpg?itok=f6OME_Rm)>

Excerpt from the [Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2017/07/12/daily-202-trump-dysfunction-follows-family-from-the-campaign-to-the-white-house/5965112ee9b69b7071abcb0e/?utm_term=.21396ec8ecaf) -- “'The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is in the early stages of launching a debate about climate change that could air on television — challenging scientists to prove the widespread view that global warming is a serious threat,' Reuters’ Valerie Volcovici reports. '\[EPA Administrator Scott\] Pruitt said his desire for the agency to host an ongoing climate change debate was inspired by two articles published in April — one in the Wall Street Journal by theoretical physicist Steve Koonin, who served as undersecretary of energy under Obama – and one by conservative columnist Brett Stephens in the New York Times. Koonin’s article made the case that climate science should use the ‘red team-blue team’ methodology used by the national security community to test assumptions.'"

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