Indur M. Goklany
Indur M. Goklany is a science policy advisor in the United States Department of the Interior (DOI). Trained as an electrical engineer, he has often promoted views at odds with the scientific consensus on climate change, falsely asserting that there is a lack of agreement among scientists and arguing that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide has various beneficial effects. In 2017, the Trump administration promoted him to a position charged with reviewing climate policy. In 2020, it was revealed he had repeatedly tried to insert misleading language on climate change into the agency's scientific reports. He has also worked with several organisations known for promoting climate change denial, including the Heartland Institute, the Cato Institute, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and the Global Warming Policy Foundation. Education Goklany has a B. Tech degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institutes of Technology and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, also in electrical engineering, from Michigan State University. Views on climate change In 2017, Goklany was promoted to the position of Assistant Director of Programs, Science and Technology Policy at the Department of the Interior. In that role he was responsible for reviewing climate policies. He has repeatedly inserted climate change denial language into DOI’s