Shellenberger was speaking as an expert witness at the 15 January hearing, An Update on the Climate Crisis: From Science to Solutions. The president of research and policy organisation Environmental Progress, he was one of a panel of five expert witnesses called to testify before the full committee meeting, alongside Pamela McElwee, associate professor of human ecology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Richard Murray, deputy director and vice president for research at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Heidi Steltzer, professor of environment and sustainability at Fort Lewis College, Colorado; and Taryn Fransen, senior fellow of global climate programme at the World Resources Institute.
