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

1 Faculty News July 1, 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/energy-environment/wp/2017/07/01/epa-chief-pushing-governmentwide-effort-to-question-climate-change-science/?utm_term=.ea4063e8b812) -- "The idea of a 'red-team blue-team' exercise stems in part from a Wall Street Journal commentary by New York University professor [Steven Koonin](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/steven-koonin). E&E News on Friday reported that Pruitt intended to formalize the 'red team, blue team' effort to challenge mainstream climate science."

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