In recent years, Steven Chu, picked by US president-elect Barack Obama to be his energy secretary and co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997 for his work on cooling and trapping atoms using lasers, developed a keen interest in climate change. Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Chu was invited to speak on climate change and the education of the next generation of scientists as part of celebrations surrounding Academia Sinica’s 80th anniversary, attended by directors of national science councils from around the world. The scientist sat down with ‘Taipei Times’ staff reporter Shelley Huang last Sunday and shared his views on the inevitability of global warming and what this entails for humanity.

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