Zeke Hausfather
Zeke Hausfather is a climate scientist and writer who explains global temperatures, climate models and clean energy through The Climate Brink and Carbon Brief.
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Known for
Cleaning Up
Carbon BriefOverview
- Work
- Climate scientist, energy systems analyst and writer
- Based in
- Oakland, California
- Education
- PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 2019
- Research milestone
- Led a 2019 study evaluating past climate-model projections
- Newsletter
- The Climate Brink, with Andrew Dessler
Mini bio
How it started.
Zeke came to climate science through clean technology startups. He co-founded Efficiency 2.0 and worked on energy-use models before returning to graduate study for a PhD. In his Cleaning Up interview, he describes spending a decade in that startup world.
A research milestone.
In 2019, he led a study asking how well earlier climate models had predicted warming. The team found that most had performed well, especially when accounting for the greenhouse gases actually emitted. The work connected a technical research question with a debate that many readers already knew.
Making the data readable.
He and Andrew Dessler introduced The Climate Brink in May 2023 as a place to examine climate risks and possible solutions. Alongside his writing for Carbon Brief, Zeke studies temperature records at Berkeley Earth and leads climate research at Stripe. He is also a lead author for the IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report.
Creditschronological, newest first
Writing and public conversations
- 2026The State of the Climate 2026, Cleaning Up episode 242Guest in conversation with Bryony Worthington
- 2023What is the climate brink?Co-author with Andrew Dessler; introductory newsletter post
- 2020Emissions: the business as usual story is misleadingCo-author with Glen Peters, Nature
Research and assessments
- 2023Fifth National Climate Assessment: Climate TrendsChapter author
- 2021IPCC AR6: Framing, Context and MethodsContributing author
- 2020The Berkeley Earth Land/Ocean Temperature RecordCo-author with Robert A. Rohde
- 2019Evaluating the performance of past climate model projectionsLead author, Geophysical Research Letters
Awards
Quotes
Physics we can understand, it is a deterministic system; future emissions depend on human systems, which are not necessarily deterministic.Zeke Hausfather, Berkeley News
Discussing why evaluating climate models requires separating their physics from assumptions about future human emissions, in December 2019.
Trivia
- His undergraduate degree was in political science at Grinnell College.
- Before his PhD, he earned master’s degrees at both Yale and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
- He has made axolotl-themed games with his daughter.
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